FLOWERS & PLANTS MACHINE EMBROID by Alison Holt
Taking landscape pictures as a theme, the author draws on her fine-art training to present this manual of machine-embroidery design. Its topics range from the basics, such as choosing a sewing machine, to the gathering of source material and the various techniques and their effects. Information on fabric and colour provide a basis for translating source material into thread pictures, and there are illustrations of the author's own work in various stages of development.