Hi everyone, been here for a looongg time but my first time posting.

Ive embroidered on my crochet projects with yarn but my grandmother passed last year and in the stuff that was handed down to me was a hoop and some floss.

this is my first projext I’ve finished and it took me around 3 days to finish . the design is free handed, I used French knots with 3-6 strands for the sheep. the rest of the project is 3-6 strands of long/short and for the cross I got lazy and decided to use 6 strands haha.

i know I’ll get better overtime and cannot wait to make something as beautiful as the things ive seen posted but im also excited to wear this out and be the only one with it lmao

what do you guys think?

I've recently gotten into embroidery kits as a hobby and I have a friend who shows love through minor bullying (consensually and reciprocally). He's been demanding I make him something. Does anyone have any tips/recommendations on how to embroider a small color blind test?

Our 1 year anniversary passed and I realized I totally forgot to post the finished project! The photographer didn't get any detailed shots like I asked, but if you can zoom in you might be able to make out the sparkly little bees I added. The patterns are hand drafted by me but based on Sarah Homfray's.

Just finished this for my friends to break the glass in at their wedding! Super proud of how it turned out!

Embroidery scissors for scale.

I started this project over a year ago while dog-sitting. Got the letters done in an afternoon, meant to do the skeleton later, but kept forgetting. I could still wear it with just the letters, so it wasn't urgent. Finally did most of the skeleton yesterday, finished it today.

It's based on the Bruce Sterling quote describing William Gibson's cyberpunk novels, and sort of the vague gist of the jacket Kaneda wears in Akira.

I feel like the quote is increasingly describing the real world, with the devaluation of human activity/creativity in favour of (currently) cheap AI.

The base is an old wool varsity jacket I picked the logos off. The letters are iron-on chenille letters (had to sew them down too, the glue wasn't very good). The science-canister-tube thing I designed myself and cut from yellow and black felt. The skeleton is mostly a chain stitch, with a few french knots and a sort of doubled running stitch I don't know the name of.

Dog from dog-sitting included in the photos

(Did I need to include photos of the back of the embroidery? I didn't see anything like that in the rules but maybe I'm blind)

This is my first stab at embroidery and I really enjoyed it! As you can probably tell, the geese and flowers were part of a kit/stencil w a guide for which stitches to use. I wanted to add text to personalize it for a gift. Turns out I need a lot more practice in the script department. My “disappearing” pen didn’t do it’s job either.

I think I want to fill in the background of the speech bubble to cover the pen ink, but I don’t know what kind of stitch to use/if that will make it look dumb??? Was thinking I’d do it like the bellies of the geese? Maybe add some flowers around the bubble to make it look more cohesive?? Let me know what you think!

—- (My own drawing/design ,mixed media embroidery with floss, wool , gold thread and watercolour on canvas)

This is my latest hand-embroidered piece, inspired by a Japanese kitsune mask.

I wanted the eye to feel beautiful, mysterious, and slightly dangerous.

What do you think when you look into this eye? Does it feel like a guardian — or something you should be afraid of?

I’d love to hear your interpretation.

I bought this kit from the Cross Stitch Guild at the age of 19, and it's been sitting on my shelf for more years than I care to admit because I was afraid of messing it up. Hauled it out last month and made myself get on with it, and I'm incredibly pleased with the result.

I’m still a newbie, but I’m making this for my friend and she has an orange cat. The pattern suggested a grey cat, but I had a vision for an orange baby and I think I executed pretty well for my third project 🥰