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Hand Embroidery

Category: <span>Hand Embroidery</span>

With the exploding popularity of embroidery patterns, it’s a good thing that hand embroidery is so easy to learn. You can get started with just a few embroidery stitches – some embroidery artists create stunning work specializing in just one or two stitches! Whether you prefer traditional patterns like flower embroidery or like to stitch on the edge with modern pattern designers, Create Whimsy has the inspiration and the how-to instructions to help.

Hand Embroidery Basics

I love to stitch, and I’ve found that I enjoy the experience much more when I have my favorite tools close at hand. Hand embroidery doesn’t require a lot of...

Flower Embroidery Inspiration

Jenny Clouston is happiest and most content when she is stitching by hand: crazy quilting, flower embroidery or English Paper Piecing. In embracing the process, she feeds her creativity and...

With a needle in her hand since the age of 7, Christen Brown creates lush embroidered and beaded pieces to wear and admire. Generous with her knowledge, she shares her...

Botanical Embroidery Inspiration

Alexis Acevedo was studying fashion design when the needlepoint bug that had bitten her in childhood came buzzing back with the infinite design possibilities of color and texture she could...

Capturing the natural world with impeccable detail, embroidery artist Rose Andreeva honors both her subject and her art with stunning realism. Her expressive stitches rise from the background, almost convincing...

Working in concert with her surroundings and reflecting her passion for global warming and environmental issues, Hannah Streefkerk uses crochet and embroidery to create unique textile installations. Starting with the...

Bee and Butterfly Embroidery

Rosemary Drysdale can't imagine her life without stitch. It's in her genes. Her British mother and grandfather are from a long line of tailors; her Scottish grandparents, and generations before...

With a love for stitching happy things, fiber art by Catherine Redford is sure to keep you smiling. She does a bit of everything: embroidery, appliqué, crazy quilting, modern quilting,...

More Hand Embroidery

Deborah Boschert Everything At Once

Spotlight: Deborah Boschert, Textile Artist

Deborah Boschert combines fabric, paint and stitch to create art quilts with movement, color and texture. Her unique style comes from the freedom of a self-taught artist to test boundaries…
Lynn's stitching project

Spotlight: Lynn Krawczyk, Textile Artist

Try to keep up now, y'all! Lynn Krawczyk has artistic energy will make your head spin! With a fearless approach to a blank canvas, she is a fiber artist who…
Pat Herkal

Spotlight: Pat Herkal, Bead and Fiber Artist

Pat Herkal occupies her head and hands every day with beads and thread. Whimsy, color and the natural world inspire her work. Mixing beads, shells, stones, and found objects -…
Lucy and Bert in front of blackberries

Embroidered Forest Friends Soft Toys

Meet Forest Friends: Bert, Lucy, Chester and Ruth! Bert and Lucy are bears; Chester and Ruth are bunnies. All designed by Kathy Schmitz, and we fell in love with them…
Three houses and flowers by Laura Wasilowski

Spotlight: Laura Wasilowski, Textile Artist

When you see a Laura Wasilowski quilt, you can't help but smile. Her whimsical pictorial art quilts use wool, as well as her own hand-dyed fabrics and threads, to depict…
Embroidered needle keep and threads

Spotlight: Kathy Schmitz, Embroidery Artist

The fun, whimsical embroidery designs that Kathy Schmitz creates often begin with doodles. And who doesn't love to doodle? Kathy elevates her doodles to finished embroidery designs that both experienced…
Portuguese Stem Stitch Embroidery

Embroidery: Portuguese Stem Stitch

The Portuguese Stem Stitch is a basic stem stitch, with added loops which give the stitch more texture and interest. It shows off the added loop texture.