EMBROIDERY GIFT GUIDE
choose your project by:
Skill Level | Theme | Season | Design Format
Ready to give handmade and DIY experiences this year? Use the guide below to choose which designs you'll stitch and gift.
Choose Gift By Skill Level
skill level: Beginners Start Here
Any of these designs are ideal for: a new stitcher, a stitcher returning after time away, or someone who wants a quick and simple project. Click here to see ALL BEGINNER projects.
skill level: Step It Up
Once you've finished a first project, these designs are great next steps, adding in more complexity. Tea Party has fun stitch combinations, Home Sampler has you trying a bigger project, and Mushrooms takes you back to the blackwork stitches of Tudor times.
skill level: Develop Mad Skills
When you're ready for a bigger project with smaller and more stitches, these are designs that give you new techniques and more detailed scenes.
Choose Gift By Theme
Whether your giftee loves gardening or hiking or cowgirl life . . .
we've got over 5 dozen designs covering a wide variety of topics. Here are three examples. CLICK HERE to see the complete theme-packed catalog.
Choose Gift By Seasons & Holidays
season: Winter
In the mood for snowy and holiday designs? CLICK HERE for the full winter and holiday collection.
season: Spring
Build a library of designs to swap out as the seasons change. Spring designs feature oranges, pinks, light blues and greens. CLICK HERE to see the full spring collection.
season: Summer
Stitch a design of summer motifs and scenes. CLICK HERE for all summer designs.
season: Fall
When the air gets crisper and the autumn colors arrive, it's time to put fall embroidery on display. CLICK HERE to see all of our fall designs.
Choose Gift By Design Format
design format: Mandala-Inspired
The repetitions of our in-the-round and symmetrical designs are expecially relaxing. CLICK HERE to see all of our mandala-inspired designs.
design format: Traditional Samplers
Stitched on a heavier linen-cotton canvas and measuring 11"x14", these designs are styled like traditional band samplers. CLICK HERE to see all our our Traditional Samplers.
design format: Scene
There are themes that lend themselves to rendering in a stitched scene. Here are three of them (and there are more in our catalog of over 60 designs here).
design format: Collage
When a theme has a variety of representational motifs, a collage-styled design gives you a fun way to embroider a collection of layered pieces.
design format: Ornaments & Little Frameables
We've got a collection of patterns on sticky-backed washaway fabric that you can use to embroider on your own fabric base. Use these to make ornaments, small little frameables and even your own embroidered clothing. CLICK HERE to see all of our washaway patterns.
