Embroidered Kitchen Gardens is filled with adorable embroidery patterns. It's nice to see a book that isn't just florals. Kazuko Aoki explains her techniques very well, so the seasoned embroiderer will have no issue recreating her beautiful work. There are full color illustrations in the beginning of the book followed by the patterns and instructions.

The embroidery in the book is lovely and the idea of embroidering your kitchen garden is charming. Unfortunately when it came to instructions something was wrong with the galley proofs and there were a bunch of numbers all over the pages which didn’t make sense. Suggestions for projects (kitchen towels, pot holders, napkins, trivets, and pictures) would be helpful.

I enjoyed this book more as an art piece than a how-to guide. Aoki's embroidery is simply beautiful and it appealed to my gardening side. Additionally, the second of half of the book includes the templates and thread colors she uses, so more experienced embroiderers can follow along. That said, I have no experience with needlework, so I'll admit the two pages of tips and four pages of stitch types aren't enough for me to get started just yet.

Such a lovely book. While I admire embroidery, I seldom practice it. Now I want to pick up a hoop and create some of these beauties!

This truly is a garden book and strikes me as very vintage. It is not the pristine florals, but the reality of a true garden in it's full glory.

Embroidered Kitchen Garden is a lovely way to give second life to your old kitchen textiles or to create completely new look of your kitchen towels and table cloths. I love simple designs showed in this book. It's a must have to all garden lovers with crafty souls.

I am new to the work of Kazuko Aoki, but this title appears to be similar to other books she has done. Aoki shares her inspiration and process as an artist through descriptive prose, and I enjoyed admiring her realistic interpretations of the most everyday objects: edibles from a kitchen garden.

This book was not what I expected, though. I enjoy embroidery, often free form, but also from whimsical patterns. Often, I work on plain flour sack towels, which I can then gift or use at home, and I thought perhaps I would find a new pattern or two that I could use. As I only had a copy of the ARC, the patterns were not in a usable form, but I don't think this is a book I would purchase as the designs seem almost personal to me. "Embroidered Kitchen Garden" does serve as inspiration for me to continue to find inspiration for my own work, and I will look elsewhere for patterns to work from.

Can not wait for the published version so I can get my hands on the patterns! In the meantime I am thankful to Netgalley for providing the arc for this cute book. Reading little 'behind the scenes' of the embroidery imagery was fun.

This is a beautiful book. I have cross stitched in the past but I am now interested in embroidery. This book would probably appeal more to an advanced beginner + than a beginner but the illustrations and instructions are clear if a beginner would want to try. I have not traced outlines onto fabric but templates will be supplied in the book for copying. Vegetables are beautiful plants and their flowers could be used alone to embellish any project. Floss can be found at most local craft stores. Linen may need to be ordered online. Thank you for letting me review this advanced copy.

Thank you, NetGalley for the preview of this eBook.

This is the first Kazuko Aoki book I have come across and this one, Embroidered Kitchen Garden is filled with delightful and beautiful patterns that are not only fun to recreate, but very easy to do so too.

I love Kazuko Aoki's embroidery books. Her designs are so exquisite and so delicate! The first part of the book is filled with color photographs of her finished work so you can see how the final piece is supposed to look like.

The projects would make really lovely embellishments to any garden themed fabric items. I can imagine them on aprons, tea towels, posters for the dining area or kitchen, and on almost any gift that the avid gardener of vegetables and edible flowers would love.

The designs are not hard to stitch, even a beginner can do so as there is a an embroidery stitch guide. There are also line drawings at the back of the book to make the pattern easier to follow by tracing.

I haven't embroidered for a long time, but if I were to start again, I would love to stitch Kazuko's beautiful works of art.

Thank you Netgalley and the publisher for the ARC. This is my honest review.

This is a cute but possibly poorly laid out embroidery book. It includes lots of vegetables, tools, flowers and insects that can be embroidered which look lovely and fun to do.

However, the book is split into the finished product at the beginning, how to make the stitches in the middle and then the patterns at the end. I believe this would have flowed much better for me, if the stitches had been first and then the pattern was next to the finished project. It would be so much easier to see what I'm supposed to be creating rather than having to keep flicking back to another part of the book.

The stitch guide appears quite comprehensive and explaining how to transfer the templates to your material is useful. Each template provides a list of the threads needed by colour number and tells you which colour to use, what stitch and how many threads.

I would certainly try to follow the insects and some of the flowers myself as they looked the cutest. I know my daughter would find some of the ideas in here useful as she has just started embroidering herself.

I received this book from Netgalley in return for a honest review.

Kazuko Aoki was inspired by a box of vegetables she received. The colours and shapes stood out, and made her want to draw them, paint them, sew them!
This beautiful book is the result of the passion they inspired, and is full of fabric renderings of each item of her kitchen garden, with instructions for us to follow to create our own.

The opening page holds a larger than life photo of the legendary box of vegetables, and it's rich colours are truly inspiring. I love the photographs, and the authors excitement and passion bleed through on every page. The layout is helpful, with a section showing the finished embroidered vegetables with their names and varieties, and then a pattern section, which first teaches you a selection of sewing stitches, and then shows you which to use where on each of the veggies. Everything about this book makes me want to sit in a spring garden, stitching everything in sight. I love that Aoki has taken inspiration from vegetables - they are truly beautiful and deserving of showcasing.

I would love to own a print copy of this book, and would happily buy it as a gift for other stitchers and crafters. The patterns are transferable to any project, and would be beautiful no matter where you decided to place them.

Embroidered Kitchen Garden by Kazuko Aoki is a beautiful book full of eye candy. If you are an embroiderer you know that most embroidery patterns are of flowers. This book takes the 'common' items from a home garden and recreates it in stunning and beautifully executed way.
The photos in the book are superior. The directions are well done. The templates at the back of the book are well done also. My only suggestion would be to have a place where owners of the book could download the patterns instead of photocopying them That is my only negative about this book.
The author is extremely talents and definitely inspires this embroiderer to try all of these stitcheries.
I would like to thank Quarto Publishing, the author and NetGalley for an ARC in exchange for an honest review.

This is a beautiful book of embroidery patterns and ideas. The front pages focus on colorful images of finished designs and the final pages of the book include line drawings and stitch suggestions. I've been looking for a good garden pattern book for a long time, this is definitely one worth investing in.

An easy to follow book with pictures and simple instructions to make some fun embroidery come to life.

This book explores using embroidery to capture and reflect kitchen garden motifs. I love the photography because it is detailed, clear, uncluttered and beautifully captured. The instructions for the embroidery stitches themselves are very brief and I think the book could have benefitted from grouping the instructions, stitching plan and embroidery photography according to the project rather than separating them out so that all of the instructions are together, all of the stitching plans are together, and all of the photography is together – it means you have to flick back and forth between pages quite a lot which is frustrating.

Verdure, erbe, animali che popolano un orto: un'idea brillante per schemi di sicura efficacia, che promettono lavori di grande allegria.
Delizioso, e non solo per il pensiero delle insalate che si potrebbero realizzare con i soggetti ritratti!

This is a beautifully presented book with wonderful photos, firstly of the finished embroidery and then followed by the stitch instructions and drawn motifs. a perfect book for those that love embroidery and also gardening, or have friends that love gardening and require a fun gift - handmade, off course.
Very pretty and realistic motifs that can be incorporated into table linen, clothing, or really anything you want.

Book has sweet designs that would work in a variety of projects and can have individual elements separated out. Stitch instructions seem clear and it's nice that the exact thread colors are included.

Another book of Aoki's completely charming embroideries, this time of the elements of kitchen gardening, including vegetables, herbs, and tools. The first half of the book presents the embroideries, each delightful. Some are the like botanical illustrations, showing the vegetable and the plant, others just show different varieties, each with the name embroidered.

The second half of the book gives you line drawings for each embroidery. These can be enlarged to transfer to fabric. Arrows point to each section, giving you the thread color (DMC floss) and stitch. Along with a section of basic information and stitches, you have everything needed either to reproduce these designs or create charming ones of your own.

While there are no projects in this book, stitchers are likely both to want to make these designs as is and to use the elements to create original pieces.