10 months ago
65 Almost 2 years ago, I bought my archetypal embroidery kit. It featured a uterus bedecked with flowers, and I wanted it so bad. When I realized I’d person to marque it my ain damn self, I amazed myself by clicking the “buy” button.
I usage the connection “surprise” because, astatine that point, I couldn’t adjacent thread a needle. In fact, whenever I needed a spread mended oregon a spot sewn onto a sash oregon a pants limb hemmed, I had my spouse bash it for me.
But that archetypal embroidery kit got maine hooked. I present person a heap of finished embroidery hoops successful my location office, waiting to beryllium hung. A container of covering waiting to beryllium mended. A trade cart for each my sewing supplies. A abstracted retention furniture for my embroidery floss. Who adjacent americium I, now?
Because I bask stitching the things I love, I bash person a postulation of book-themed embroidery patterns, immoderate of which I’ve completed, others of which I’ve bookmarked for a rainy day. If you, too, person been bitten by the embroidery bug and privation to capable your location with bookish stitchwork, I’ve got you. The patterns beneath are each beginner-friendly, though the much experienced among you whitethorn privation to spell rogue successful presumption of colour and stitch choices. You bash you.
The First Bookish Embroidery I Ever Did
Etsy seller GetStitchDoneDesigns is known for her foul-mouthed designs (some of which I’ve done), but this bookworm pattern ($10) caught my oculus acknowledgment to the purple hairsbreadth that flows past the hoop’s edge. It was besides my archetypal clip doing the reverse concatenation stitch, which I loved due to the fact that of however perfectly cleanable it is for stitching cable-knit sweaters. I notation to this 1 arsenic my self-portrait.
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An Accurate Reproduction of Me Coming Home from the Library
This TBR pattern ($10) is really adjacent connected my to-do list, and is from 1 of my favourite signifier creators, BZCreationsShop (she besides makes amazing stickers). This peculiar task is mixed-media, incorporating some watercolor and stitchwork…something I haven’t done before, and which I commune I don’t screw up. But however cute is that publication stack??
You Are What You Read
Also from BZCreationsShop, this You Are What You Read pattern ($10) screams retro tablecloth to me…and I’m digging it. Though the signifier appears to beryllium made up mostly of satin stitches with a smattering of French knots, the plan itself is nevertheless intricate and full-feeling.
The Lie We Tell Ourselves astatine Night…
Anyone else? This One More Chapter pattern ($9) from flossandhoopshop amuses me, and I ideate it mightiness amuse you, too. After all, who among america hasn’t told some ourselves and/or our bedmate that we’d beryllium awake for conscionable 1 much chapter…only to walk retired bleary-eyed hours later? This signifier is simple, sweet, and existent to life.
No Shelf Control aka My Entire Personality
Another clever 1 from flossandhoopshop, this No Shelf Control pattern ($9) is cute arsenic heck, and besides accurately describes my full personality. I besides emotion the added texture that comes with that woody support and that cascading houseplant.
The Cutest Lil’ Bookshelf You Ever Did See
A much understated but texture-rich instrumentality connected the erstwhile bookshelf comes from HomebodyHandmadeCo, with this bookshelf pattern ($6) that besides incorporates a spot of beadwork. I americium not a works idiosyncratic (mostly due to the fact that I inadvertently termination them nary substance what I do), but this beaded houseplant is adorbs!
Another Bookish Pun
Who among america doesn’t emotion a bookish pun? (And if you raised your hand, what are you adjacent doing here?) This believe successful your support pattern ($10) from PrintedJune features a publication stack that’s ace pretty. In fact, I’ve conscionable added this TBR to my to-be-embroidered list.
Plant Lady
Back to the full houseplant thing. I whitethorn not person a greenish thumb, but I bash emotion maine immoderate embroidered flora. Most of the embroidery patterns I’m drawn to are dense with stitched greenery and blooms. So though this bookworm embroidery pattern ($10) from GirlGotThread isn’t existent to my life, I inactive privation to stitch it.
Major Secret Garden Vibes
I americium getting immoderate major Secret Garden vibes from this bookworm connected a plaything embroidery pattern ($9) by MutlulukPanosu. So galore colorful woven wheels, lazy daisies, and French knots…I emotion it! And if you look closely, you’ll spot that the creator incorporated a twig into the design, astatine the precise apical of the swing’s frame. Can I unrecorded here?
You Can Never Have Too Many Book Stacks
Finally, I person 1 much publication stack for you. This book stack embroidery pattern ($9) by stitchandstoneshm contains a elemental but satisfying premix of satin stitches and consecutive oregon backmost stitches. The cleanable portion of artwork for hanging successful your publication nook.
Feeling inspired? Yay! Feeling intimidated? That’s okay. Check retired this database of nine awesome embroidery books. You’ll beryllium stitching distant successful nary time.
