My Favorite Sites For Hand Embroidery Patterns & A Giveaway!
Hand Embroidery is one of my favorite things to do. I love the act of stitching, especially with Sulky Cotton Petites™ & Sulky Sticky Fabri-Solvy™ (You can read why I love these products for hand embroidery here), but I also love that there are so many new designs these days. No longer is hand embroidery just red work, traditional or heirloom. No matter what your personal style, you can find hand embroidery patterns just for you. There are tons of great sites with fantastic patterns, but here are a few of my favorites.
HINT: I am doing a giveaway at the end of this blog (Like the monster at the end of this book) and if you read to the end, you will see how to enter to win a great prize!
Shiny Happy World – I love these sweet patterns done in bright colors and if you sign up to receive the newsletter, you get lots of the patterns for free!
Penguin and Fish – Not only are these patterns adorable, they are great for someone starting out in hand embroidery. Many of the patterns are just the right size to finish in just a few hours. She also gives away a great set of patterns when you sign up for her newsletter!
Needle ‘n Thread – Most of Mary’s patterns are free (bonus!) and she has a great variety of styles. She also has an extensive page of fantastic video tutorials to learn new stitches!
Sulky Embroidery Club – Although most of the designs in the club are machine embroidery, all the the line embroidery patterns give you the option to purchase the machine or hand embroidery version!
Urban Threads – If you are looking for something outside the traditional sewing box, this is the place for you! They also have a page of free designs
Bird Brain Designs – If you are looking for wool, red work and more traditional designs, this is a great site. She also has some awesome designs available for free!
Lickity Stitch – Besides being fun to say, Lickity Stitch is a great place to find traditional with a twist. (Sorry for the tiny image)
Alice Wilhoit – I did not know about Alice before researching for this post but as soon as I saw her designs, I fell in love! The simplicity of words with great ribbon and embroidery details is great. Her kits are a fantastic deal too!
Now for the Giveaway! I am giving one lucky person a pack of Printable Sticky Fabri-Solvy and a 6-Pack of Sulky Cotton Petites of my favorite New Cotton Colors.
To enter, simply comment on this post with the answer to this question:
What is your favorite type of hand embroidery? Traditional, whimsical, primitive, red work, etc? I will randomly pick a winner on Monday and send you an email.
Happy Sewing!
56 Comments
Tracy P.
Primitive!
Shari K.
I don’t have one favorite, but if I had to pick, I would say Traditional.
Laurie Hahn
Traditional ~ altho since my eyes aren’t what they used to be, I am learning to replicate handwork using my sewing machine ~ not embroidery machine ~
judith meador
TrAditional
Barbara
Traditional
Judy
I learned the traditional hand embroidery from my Grandmother & Mother on pillowcases & flour sack T-towels, then learned to crochet the delicate late edgings – I wouldn’t trade those memories or style of embroidery…so Traditional is my choice and thank you,
Paulette Jensen
A little of this, a lot of that, I like to try it all, diverse!
Shirley Gilchrist
My embroidery is from stamped patterns (such as nursery rhymes and Bible stories) for quilt blocks.
Denise
I love traditional but, if there is something that happens to catch my eye, i am all for it.
Inma
Red work please……
Whiskers
Just give me the right needle with the right thread. I think I’ve tried just about every kind — except machine. (My mom taught me to embroider at the age of 5, and that was a loooonnnngggg time agoooooo.)
mightymadge
Whimsical would be my favorite but I love to learn and try all type of new things!
Thanks so much for a great opportunity to win such a great prize. I have always wanted to try the Sulky petites
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Sheryl Moore
Whimsical & red work! How can I pick just one fav?
Fran Johnson
Oh so hard to pick!! But if I could do only one, it would have to be counted cross-stitch. I always use Sulky thread for my machine embroidery but have not tried it for hand work. Well, that is about to change.
Kelly Paquet
I like primitive and also whimsical hand embroidery best. I love the examples you showed in your blog post! When I was sick many years ago, the only thing I could do was embroidery, and it was very calming to me. I think it’s a wonderful art.
Frank Warthan
I like to take red work and do it in rainbow of colors. worked on in varigated thread .turned our very well especiall since i doubled the thread and used two strands.
Judy
I especially enjoy crewel and Stumpwork
Carol Mitchell
I used to do crewel embroidery in the 70’s and 80’s when I was in the EGA; then some traditional and redwork. I now enjoy the whimsical and fast cute designs. Actually, I enjoy just about any type of hand embroidery – very relaxing.
Sue Smith
my favorite embroidery so far is wool felt embroidery
Beverly Sensabaugh
I like free-style. Merry Christmas!
Tabitha K.
I’m just starting out but I would have to say, whimsical! I love cute little stitchery! Thanks so much for places to check for patterns and the wonderful giveaway!
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glorybquilts
I really enjoy hand embroidery. It is portable and I find it very relaxing. I favour the traditional but in particular red work or even blue work.
lynda hackney
I love to do my own designs – free form and flowing.
Donna Morgan
Both whimsical and traditional.
Gladys Hontz
Love,Love,Love Red Work!!
Have a Merry Christmas and a Happy and Healthy New Year
Helen Youens
I do it all depending on what the item is for but whimsical is fun! Variety is so much fun. Thank you.
Susie L
Traditional.
Giselle
I like redwork. My stores do not carry a full line of sulky products.What are the best sites to buy them online?
Kelly Nagel
There are several online stores that carry our entire line. I use http://www.uncommonthread.com most often.
QuiltinGram
Love Traditional and Redwork but Primitive sometimes peeks my interest!
LaVerne
I like to use embroidery for embelishment so I use mostly traditional Stitches.
Dawn
Thank you for all the links. I like whimsical embroidery the most but I seldom take the time to do hand work anymore. Thank you for the gentle shove in that direction. It sounds like a great way to spend some winter afternoons.
Pat Reish
I really appreciate all of the links. I much prefer the whimsical embroidery patterns though.
Karen Poole
My favorite hand embroidery is anything whlith lots of flowers and lots of bright colors!!
Cheryl
I have done counted cross stitch for years and still love it. But I spend less time on it now that I’ve discovered machine embroidery.
Marilyn Wharton
It really depends on the project, but I guess my favorite embroidery is traditional. I just love the look of the old samplers!
Becki G
Favorite is textural and dementional.
Jean
Whimsical is probably my favorite, but I like it all. Thanks for the give away!
Janet erbes
Traditional although I’m new at learning at 70 years young they’re all beautiful
Susan
So far traditional. I’m just starting out and the info in your blog was very helpful. Thanks.
Aline
I favor counted cross stitch but do like to do at least one project of any new type of embroidery that I have not heard of before, either old style or newly thought up
Elizabeth Dicrescenzo
I am drawn to redwork or bluework embroidery with a whimsical bent.
BettyLou Lovato
I like it all. Learning to make my hand embroidery look nicer. Practice, practice. Love sewing machine embroidery too.
Pauline Gardner
I like to do traditional and cross stitch embroidery
Liz K
Redwork and crewel embroidery are my absolute favorites.
Diane F
My favorite is traditional embroidery. It’s what I learned growing up!
Linda Caldwell
I like both traditional and primitive. I always have to have handwork to do. Thanks for the opportunity.
Debbie
I do enjoy red work & I am a sucker for the snowman designs from Bird Brain!
loosecannon2
I love Traditional Embroidery because of the wonderful memories of being taught by my mother, grand mother, & great grand mother. Wasn’t I lucky? I could not trade the memories or the work for all the money in the universe,
Thank you.
Sandi
I love redwork and traditional!
Susan
Hard question I love them all, I just gave my grand-daughter six lovely hand made ornaments this morning for her first tree. in her first home.
Donna Depatie
I like to make Christmas Ornaments using Felt. I just made a memory tree using Angel Wings with the names and birthdays embroidered.
Betty Verardi
Started very young with traditional. Advanced to crewel and machine embroidery…. But always come back to any kind if hand embroidery. I actually get lonely for thread and needle.
irshad123
I just love your blog thanks for sharing such a nice article about embroideries.
Christine Forget
I probably would say Traditional; however, I love learning new things. Absolutely love most handwork…Crewel, needlepoint, etc.