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Floral mandala sampler, hand embroidery pattern, displayed in hoop

Master 10 essential embroidery stitches with this beginner-friendly floral mandala sampler project.

Something special to stitch for every season

Hand embroidered felt vampire cats, Halloween ornaments
Hand embroidered felt pumpkin ornaments, Thanksgiving or autumn ornaments
Christmas kaleidoscope hand embroidery pattern with reindeer, Christmas trees, snowflakes, and a star

What customers are saying

“Stitching the whole collection was such a satisfying challenge! I’m especially proud because I am virtually a beginner, but the instructions are very easy to follow... I highly recommend this zodiac set, if I can do them, anyone can!”

Christine

Tamara Carlier, embroidery pattern designer, The Hoop in Hand

Hi! I’m Tamara

I’m a self-taught embroidery artist and the designer of all the patterns you’ll find here. I set up The Hoop in Hand in 2022 with one simple goal: to share the joy embroidery brings me with the world.

I’m thrilled you found me here.

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🤗 Ta-dah! This is what creative collaboration looks like, folks 🤗 Thank you to all of you who chimed in with your thoughts on the colour scheme for my latest WIP... This will be my first embroidery pattern to feature owls, and they have a very spec
🎉 Time to reveal what’s been keeping me busy recently – my new website goes live next week! I can’t wait to share this new corner of the internet with you, and to get things started, I’ll be releasing a FREE beginner-friendly
🪡 Taking a little time out today to remember why I started The Hoop in Hand. The goal was simple: to share the joy embroidery brings me with the world 🪡 It’s been easy to lose sight of that goal lately, as I’ve been caught up with fili
�💛🐣 Thank you for all the love you’ve shown my embroidered felt chickens and eggs recently! I so enjoyed creating the patterns for these fun and folksy Easter ornaments, so I’m thrilled to know you’re having fun stitching yours, t