There are thousands of embroidery patterns online. Seriously, at least thousands. Maybe millions, but I don’t want to be accused of hyperbole. (One billion patterns!)
To me embroidery patterns are worth paying for. This is probably in part because I have not yet learned to draw, so I’m pretty stymied when it comes to creating my own. If you’re interested in creating your own designs you may want to check out the book Doodle Stitching by Aimee Ray:
Mollie Johanson has a blog and an Etsy store called Wild Olive. She offers a free pattern each month on her blog, and you can see February’s here. Her designs are whimsical and almost all have faces, including tree stumps, moss, rocks, and mushrooms.
Urban Threads has fun, modern (post-modern?), embroidery designs with attitude. They have downloadable designs for machine and hand embroidery as well as some digital stock art. This design is one of my favorites of their free designs:
Sublime Stitching is one of my favorites, if for no other reason than that they sell iron-on patterns. Thought the methods to transfer from a PDF to a stitch-able designs are not terrible time consuming, iron-on transfers take less than 5 minutes, and when you’re short on time this can be a huge help. Below is a sample of one of her designs, Craftopia.
Where are your favorite places to get embroidery patterns?
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