Embroidery Gift Guide

Hand embroider these 8 petite pillows to fill your Christmas basket!  Add cloves to the filling to spice up your room too. The pillows vary in size from 4 3/4” x 6” to 5” x 8”.

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Visit this unique village of tiny homes nestled in a grove of large flowers. Laura’s original art quilts reflect her sense of fun and whimsy. Tiny Homes #3 is an improvisational design created with cotton fabrics and hand embroidered with her hand-dyed threads.

Price is $250

Doodle Stitching: One-Hour Embroidery was created with busy people in mind. This book will show you that you truly can make something wonderful in just an hour! Whether you are a beginner or seasoned stitcher, you will love the fun, quick and easy designs in this book. It contains over 135 cute motifs to embroider; mix and match them with 18 simple projects that you can complete in right around an hour. 

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Full color stitching directions and complete assembly directions make stitching these 12 ornaments fun.  Each ornament measures about 2” across.  Add them to a Christmas tree or wreath!

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You will love learning 14 basic embroidery stitches as you embroider this colorful printed stitch sampler! When you're done, you'll have a beautiful and handy stitch reference to display. Perfect for beginners and experienced stitchers alike, it is available in a full kit with all supplies, or choose just the fabric sampler and instructions.

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Hand stitch our best-selling Wanderlust embroidery while traveling or dreaming of your next adventure! This popular kit comes with everything you need to complete your modern embroidery. Detailed instructions and links to video stitch tutorials make this kit perfect for beginners and experienced stitchers alike. 

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Thread Sampler Intense

A sampler of hand-dyed size 8 pearl cotton threads in intense colors includes: Butter, Oranges, Red Hots, Bordeaux, Wisteria, Aquamarine, Lime Frappe, and Rainbow Rich. Use Laura's richly dyed threads for all your needle arts like hand embroidery, quilting, sashiko, wool applique, cross-stitch, and needlepoint.

Thread Sampler Pastel

A sampler of hand-dyed size 8 pearl cotton threads in pastel colors includes: Lemons, Nasturtium, Petunias, Prinky Phlox, Japanese Iris, Ocean, Sprouts, and Rainbow Medium. Use Laura's richly dyed threads for all your needle arts like hand embroidery, quilting, sashiko, wool applique, cross-stitch, and needlepoint.

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Get lost in the woods while stitching our best-selling tree filled embroidery! This diy kit comes with everything you need to complete your modern embroidery. Detailed instructions and links to video stitch tutorials make this kit perfect for beginners and experienced stitchers alike. 

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Hands down my favorite light. There are different brightness levels. Lift up the top and use the magnifier for close up work. The heavy rolling base makes it very sturdy and easy to move around the studio. The stitcher in your life will thank you for this!

Wish you had a third hand? With this embroidery stand it is like you do! This embroidery stand has three joints, making it very flexible and easy to change into any position. It can be used on table top or by sitting on the base. Keep your hands free so you can stitch easily from either side.

Every embroidery maker would love a high quality hoop for their projects. This high quality wooden hoop is make from close-grain beech with smooth radius edges. The clasp is designed to make it easy to adjust the tension for any fabric.

Challenged with threading embroidery needles? This is the tool for you - or give it to the stitcher in your life! Using this makes threading all kinds of needles with all kinds of threads super easy.

Free step-by-step instructions on how to make your own embroidered and beaded wool coffee cozies for all of the warm beverage lovers in your life!

This pattern for a needle book and travel sewing kit uses bits and pieces of lace and trim to make a small custom case that fits all of your hand stitching supplies. Customize it with special bits and pieces and in favorite colors for a special stitcher -- or give them the pattern to enjoy creating their own!

Perfect gift for the hand sewer or embroider in your life. Using a "wool penny rug" design, the entire needlebook measures about 4-1/2" when finished. It has three two-sided wool pages with metal grommets at the top of each page. They are secured with a metal keyring so that you can clip it to your sewing basket, purse, project box, or anywhere else that is handy.

Be busy as a bee with your embroidery and hand sewing while keeping all of your supplies organized with this scissor case. This pattern is for the Daisy Bee Felt Scissor Cozy, embroidered with button bees. Perfect for storing scissors, wonder clips, thread cards and extra needles.

Send a picture of your pet and receive a custom embroidery portrait! The frame is 6"x6''. Custom embroidery of your favorite furry friends! Send along a photo of your lovable pet and receive a personalized embroidery with your fabric color of choice. Perfect for that pet lover on your list!

Pick your own thread colors or use the ones we've suggested in this easy stitched Daisy Mandala Hoop Art.

Round and round she goes! This hoop art embroidery becomes meditative to stitch. Use the colors we suggest or pick your own!

Hand stitch these sashiko ornaments for your special tree. PDF pattern comes with stitch pattern, tips for transferring the pattern to your fabric and basics of sashiko stitching.

Stitch these adorable Scandinavian inspired peacocks for someone special this year! These Christmas ornaments come in PDF (+ SVG + DXF) pattern format and will give you easy patterns and tutorials - even a beginner can make the felt peacock ornaments.

Pick a letter, pick your colors and Frockdolly will embroider customized and personalized ornaments just for you! She's been embroidering since she was a young child and enjoys making these each holiday season. These are finished ornaments, ready for gift giving.

Embroider your own ornaments with this detailed pattern that shows you how to make colorful embroidered partridge and pear ornaments. Perfect for your Christmas tree or for special handmade gifting. The ornaments are sewn entirely by hand.

Make these adorable tiny animals for the young ones in your life. Easy to have handy in diaper bags for on-the-go entertainment. This pattern and instructions are to hand sew four tiny domestic animals that can fit in the palm of your hand: a cat, dog, bunny, and mouse.

Make these jungle friends - an elephant and giraffe, for the young friends in your life. Patterns provide cutting and sewing directions, along with the embroidery pattern to bring each of them to life.

Hand Embroidery Dictionary provides step-by-step photo tutorials for over 500 embroidery stitches for both lefties and righties. Christen includes samples of many of her own projects so it is easy to visualize how the stitches come to life.

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When Natalie Chanin and her Alabama Chanin and The School of Making teams began to look at needlework closely, they realized all stitches are based on geometric grid systems—and by using grids as guides, they could make learning stitches, even seemingly elaborate ones, as easy as child’s play.

In The Geometry of Hand-Sewing Chanin presents their breakthrough method, featuring illustrated instructions (for both right- and left-handed stitchers) for more than 100 stitches—from the most basic straight and chain to the more fanciful feather and herringbone; photos of both right and wrong sides; and guidelines for modifying stitches to increase one’s repertoire further. To simplify learning, the book also includes two plastic stitching cards die-cut with the grids on which every stitch in the book is based.

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Over 180 stitches with photos for each step of every stitch for both righties and lefties! Tips for the types of needles to use for different threads and ribbons. This will become one of your go-to books for your embroidery projects. Perfect gift for the embroiderer in your life.