Teeny Tiny Menagerie: 380 Whimsical & Wonderful Animal Embroidery Motifs

First of all, the patterns are super cute. So many to choose from. I am a beginner at embroidery but these weren’t hard to do at all. Plus, if you don’t know how to do a certain embroidery style, YouTube videos help! The embroidery styles used in these patterns are pretty much similar throughout. It mostly uses the satin stitch.The patterns are pretty small, but if you have a scanner you can enlarge it and print it out. If not, maybe you can take a picture of it, send it to your email, enlarge it and then print it out — just a thought. I didn’t do it this way because I personally like the size of the patterns. It’s perfect for handkerchiefs, socks, clothes, etc.Overall, I recommend this book if you’re looking for some cute embroidery patterns.* It also has a few patterns for cross stitching as well.

Adorable designs that can be a starting point for motifs of your own, but as of 2023 all the links for downloading designs to print out and transfer to fabric have expired. That is fully half of the value of the book, so it's a rip-off at this point.

This book rocks! I got the kindle edition so I can print the patterns out for transfer and it even comes with a pdf of all of the patterns to make that even easier to manipulate them before printing. This is a book for creative stitchers that like to take an idea and make it their own. It does not have projects per se but components you can use in your own designs. I think some of them will be great for seaming pieced fabrics or quilts as well as straight up embroidery projects.

Love this embroidery book! This book is not for beginners as basic stitch knowledge is needed to make these designs.

This book is chock full of the sweetest little animals to embroider. They are very realistic and it’s a fun challenge to mimic their creator’s talented stitchings. The instructions are well thought out and helpful.If you love animals and the art of embroidery, you’ll enjoy this book!

The designs are precious, whimsical and have character. I recommend this book for someone with artistic ability, since you have to trace the designs and they are very detailed and tiny...a lot is left to you. The book includes four differed alphabet pages with animals which are very well done. It also includes several larger scenes that can be used for larger pieces, these are often missing from other books of this type. Do not recommend for the beginner.

The patterns are so cute and instructions are easy to follow!

LOVE this book!! So many cute little motifs, and I really like the style. It probably wouldn't be best for a beginner--unless you happen to be very patient--as the how-to's are a little on the skimpy side and the designs are teeny tiny, just as the title promises (though they can be enlarged). I am working on a project right now using patterns from this book--I just love it!

This book is amazing. I have a very large collection of sewing and embroidery books and this has shot to the top..The ideas are super and the way each motif it is explained is amazing. The pictures are very detailed so there is no way you can't follow them and replicate them. I just love it and would recommend it to any level of sewer. It's a MUST for all . A real gem of a book.

These are truly teeny tiny but you can adapt

Chegou antes da hora. O livro é sensacional! Muitas figuras... de uma delicadeza. Eu indico muito.

There are lots of really sweet patterns in this book. Most are fairly simple, although on some patterns you will have to resort to your own artistic abilities to get the shading of colors right. All in all, I really enjoyed it.

Muito bom!