The BERNINA Big Book of Embroidery is a comprehensive guide to machine embroidery, covering topics from design basics, stabilizers, and hooping, to advanced editing functions and techniques like in-the-hoop projects and freestanding lace. It serves as a valuable, hardcopy reference for both beginner and experienced embroiderers, providing information and inspiration with its 200 pages of content on various BERNINA machine functions and stitching methods.