Book excerpt: From the basic stitches to how to use color, this book is packed with hundreds of ideas, inspiring projects and useful tips to create beautiful embroidery. Exquisite embroidery projects with original fauna and flora designs in a variety of threads to create a 3D effect. The book is filled with novel concepts in mixed-media embroidery and offers many interpretations and techniques, with striking examples of textured finishes. Lavishly illustrated with beautiful commissioned photographs, it offers 12 colour themes to help embroiderers understand colour, and inspiring projects to encourage them produce their own creative work. Also included are an extensive stitch glossary and templates for the designs. Previously published as Embroidered Flora & Fauna.