Doodle style dog embroidery that is as cute as promised. Clear instructions and a narrow range of stitches you'd have to learn to execute the designs.

A really great book. Interesting and original designs for some lovely projects. Perfect for any dog lover with 90+ breeds covered and in many styles. Love the cartoon section and can't wait to get sewing!

Tolle Stickereien und Vorlagen, ein absolutes musst-have für Hundefreunde.
Unglaublich, was man mit Nadel und Faden zaubern kann!

Great patterns for the embroidery fan. Color illustrations make copying and stitching easier to follow. Smaller quickly switchable patterns. I received a copy of this ARC in exchange for a fair and honest review.

This book is a very fun collection of dog embroidery designs that is absolutely perfect for the dog enthusiast/embroiderer - you know who you are! The designs range from exquisitely realistic renditions of many dog breeds, to cartoony, quirky, and irreverent. Also included are basic embroidery techniques and ideas for how to deploy these lovely designs on larger projects. A handful of indie designers made the bulk of the book, and the focus is very much on the wide variety of designs - nearly 400! This is a really fun collection, and one that many will want to own rather than borrow from the library.

Great designs ideal for a mix of abilities. I now have a little dog embroidered on the corner of my dogs towel. He loves it too!
Hope that Oksana Kokovkina had some more animal embroidery designs in mind.

This fabulous book presents a vast array of dog embroidery designs, ranging from the silly and cartoon-like to the very serious and very realistic, the easy to the more complicated so something for everyone.
There’s plenty of how-to information about doing the various stitches, how to use the patterns in the book, what colours of thread to use for each one, and it’s all set out very clearly so that even a complete novice could use the book. You can start with the simpler projects and move on as your confidence grows, if this is your first time with embroidery. If you’re already accomplished, then you can dive straight in!
There’s advice and inspiration as to what fabrics and items to put your designs on too. That’s really helpful and there are some super ideas to emulate.
The book is beautifully illustrated, which is a wonderful feature, and all in all it is extremely inspiring. It’s packed with ideas and know how, an absolute treasure trove for the dog-loving actual or wannabe embroiderer!

I Love My Dog is a wonderful embroidery book with 380 dog themed projects and templates. As a dog lover, I was excited to see this book. The book has full size templates of the patterns to make it easy for use and a guide for the DMC colors of embroidery thread to use. The book is for the beginner and the more experienced. There are sections of dogs such as the favorites, small dogs, big dogs, spot, doggy heaven, seasons and celebrations , jobs, sports, inter species, stitch guides, and templates. A very good book for those who sew.

This is a must have for dog loving stitchers. Several designs feature popular breeds in excellent accuracy, while others focus on more cartoon like and adorable pictures. Some of the more complex designs may be out of the reach of beginners, but come with detailed instructions on how to start them, so I feel like I can work my way up to them if I tried. If you love dogs, or have a dog lover you are making something for, check this out and see what inspires you.

I was looking for an embroidery pattern for a Shetland Sheepdog and found an adorable one here. The author had some creative and do-able ideas for embroidering dogs. The cute factor was very high. I want to try to embroider a Sheltie onto something, and now I'm brainstorming what I could create. I truly enjoyed this, and my elementary age son had lots of "awws" as he looked at the book over my shoulder.

Oh! This book is super cute. I love how it tells you on how to embroidery the dogs shown in this book :) I think this book will be a fun gift for the people who loves embroidery and dog!

I Love My Dog Embroidery provides many cute dog embroidery ideas and designs. It even includes full size templates perfect for your projects, which will be helpful. Some of the designs are surface embroidery with others that are charted counted or cross-stitch. The guides and tool information are good. Looking through all the cute ideas are fun. It is interesting to think of all the projects to decorate with one or more of these designs.

A very comprehensive collection of dog embroidery patterns. There are 48 breeds shown in profile and full face that are nicely detailed, followed by dozens of more cutesy patterns ranging from simple outline patterns to more complicated ones. I love the section called Look-Alikes: Pups and Their Peeps, which gives mix and match patterns for borders, dogs, and humans, to help you make customized mini portraits. There are project ideas, plus a good, basic walk-through of techniques and stitches. A very fun book for any dog loving stitcher!

A cute embroidery book but I didn't find many of the templates tempting. A lot of variety is odd, like dog astrological signs and dogs posed as humans. I also found it wholly impractical that a review book like this would not allow for printing to actually try patterns to give an fully accurate review.

An absolutely charming book that allows you to integrate your love for man's best friend in your craft projects!

Even though this book contains step-by-step instructions and some beginner stitch technique information, I definitely felt like it was for a more advanced embroiderer. Different styles are used throughout the projects to give you a real variety to choose from (some much more simplistic than others). It's a great book if your desire is to embroider many dog related things, as it does contain an extensive list of breeds.

I have decided that for 2019 I am going to find more hobbies and crafts to try and embroidery is at the top of that list. I have a sweet dog who is my best buddy so I thought this would be a fun book to check out. There are so many cute different patterns in here to give a try. As a novice, I am not sure that it is all explained to me well enough, but I am still going to give it a try for the sheer number of patterns available. Pretty much every dog breed imaginable is included and there are several different sub-categories of different types of dogs (Dog yoga poses anyone? Or dogs with occupations! They are all so cute!). I would recommend this book to absolutely any dog lover that has an interest in embroidery.

This is an absolutely adorable embroidery book! It comes with a whopping 386 patterns, all revolving around man's best friend. Is there a better subject for art? Possibly cats, but dogs are amazing too.

Each of the design is shown completed and in an outline drawing as a pattern. Most are embroidered, but some are cross-stitched. Some are hyper-realistic pieces where you're stitching single strands of fur, others are cartoony. There's even a whimsical re-imagining of the constellations as 'astrodgical signs',

The rest of the book contains:

-An obligatory, and very short, section of 'project inspirations'. Usually these show the pieces awkwardly attached onto items no regular person wants or needs, but this one isn't too bad, because honestly, who doesn't want to put dogs on everything they own?

-A brief instructional section with the usual tools and materials, and instructions for the stitches you need, and an explanation of the pattern notations. It's not really detailed enough for beginners, and experts won't really the information it so it felt a bit extraneous.

The only flaw with this book is that for once it doesn't actually have enough instructions. The more realistic pet portraits (which are really popular right now) are quite challenging to embroider, and there are no tips at all on layering the stitches, where to start stitching, and the primary stitch (long and short stitch) is explained a little inadequately. I think it would take a lot of trial and error to recreate those particular designs, which is frustrating.

Still, this book is definitely worth buying if you love embroidery and dogs! The designs are very cute and even if some do have a steep learning curve, it's totally worth it to make these good boys.

This a delightful book that is filled with adorable dogs. In fact, it is quite a collection of dog motifs at 380! There is definitely something for everyone who loves dogs. There are regular dog profiles and dog faces but there is also so much more, including dogs getting into stuff, doggy heaven, seasonal ones, and various poses to name a few. Some of my favorites were: the dog in a bathtub, in a raincoat, scuba diving, on a bike, and digging in a garbage can.

The author is very thorough with regards to required materials, steps to take, and ideas/inspirations. Not only does the book explain how to transfer one of the many designs, but it specifies the colors and the stitches to use as well as the recommended number of stands of floss. In fact, there is a section which shows how to do each of the 15 stitches used in all the designs. I am going to pull out some jeans and sew a few of my favorites on them. I would love to take my jean jacket and sew a whole bunch of them on it — that would be so cute!

Thank you to Quarto Publishing Group and NetGalley for an advanced reader copy of this book in exchange for my honest review.

This is a great addition to my book collection for cute embroidery ideas. There are so many possibilities for dog embroidery projects. Some are simple for beginners. I can’t wait to get started.