Crewel Embroidery Gallery

Welcome to the online art gallery for crewel embroidery! Please take a look at what others are stitching and share your own favorite project that you made. These hand embroidery patterns primarily use embroidery stitches such as the backstitch, satin stitch, French knot, chain stitch, and their variations.

If you would like to contribute, please share a photo of your favorite creation and tell us about it. The pattern can be from coloring books or embroidery kits. It doesn't matter. Just describe where you got the idea, why you chose to stitch it, the types of thread you used, and any special challenges you ran into while you were working on the project.

In addition, if you mention the types of patterns you like to stitch, such as Native American or Jacobean, maybe others can recommend some pattern ideas to you. And please jump in to comment on what others have made to share your own hand embroidery pattern recommendations!

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What Other Visitors Are Stitching

Click below to see favorite crewel hand embroidery patterns from other visitors to this page...

Flower Basket in Brazilian Style Dimensional Embroidery
This is another Brazilian style dimensional embroidery. I have used cast on stitches for the small flowers and wrapped with daisy stitch. I feel it gives ...

Dimensional Embroidery
I have done this embroidery using Brazilian embroidery stitches .I could not get Rayon threads at my place. I have used Anchor pearl cotton thread. Is ...

Sari with Flystitch
This is my first hand embroidered sari which I am doing for others. Even though I have made number of sarees for myself, I was really afraid to work on ...

Long-and-Short Red Anemone
I was attracted by this embroidered red anemone design in Trish Burr's Long and Short Stitch Embroidery: A Collection of Flowers. I loved this design....

Lovers Hankies
This is a "lovers hankies", a tradition here in the north of Portugal. Before marriage, girls embroidered these hankies and offered them to the boy they ...

Floral Crewel Embroidery
I started by doing cross stitch and hardanger, ages ago (I'm 47 now), but ever since I learned to to this kind of embroidery, I just can't stop!

Hope ...

Native American Triad Dress
Hello Everybody,

This is a close-up of the yoke, sleeve and hem decoration of a sundress I have designed called The Native American Triad Dress. The ...

Embroidered Handkerchief
Flower patterns are always my favorite for crewel embroidery, be it a single flower or a bunch of flowers. I got this flower pattern from the book Embrodiery ...

Siamese Cat Pillow Not rated yet
This was my grandmother's (Helen Marble) pattern. She designed it in the 1960s for the Elsa Williams company. I believe this was one of their most popular ...

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