Embroidery reference book, hard copy recommendation request

[kaylarudbek]

So the Tour of Ireland shawl has an accompanying embroidery kit, and I started working on that. I now understand why Salty Yarns out in Ocean City MD (my favorite yarn store when I travel there) has a lot of needlework kits as well as the yarn. I want to find a reference book (about the size of a paperback book) of embroidery stitches for when I’m sitting on the beach working on a project. So I want something small and lightweight, and in a price range where I won’t have to flip out if the book gets sunscreen on the pages…

Any suggestions?

Comments

[melannen]

I tend to rely on an old copy of Coats and Clark's 100 Embroidery Stitches for travel, it's just a pamphlet but it's very useful and so much more compact than any of my newer embroidery books. I was going to say probably also cheap since I picked mine up out of a $.50 pattern bin at a thrift store years ago, but apparently I'm not the only one who likes it because it's not actually that cheap on Amazon! (Still probably cheaper than most new books though.)

[kaylarudbek]

Thank you very much for your suggestions! I couldn’t find that exact pamphlet on Amazon or ThriftBooks, but I was able to find something similar, I think. Embroidery Tips & Hints by Harold Hayes, and then this: https://smile.amazon.com/gp/product/1935726595/ref=ox_sc_act_title_2?smid=ATVPDKIKX0DER&psc=1 a carry-along reference guide which is exactly what I was looking for