Embroidery Patterns

10 Contemporary Embroidery Samplers to Help You Learn a Variety of Stitches

Embroidery samplers

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Are you famil­iar with embroi­dery sam­plers? They are pat­terns that fea­ture a vari­ety of stitch­es or tech­niques on one piece of fab­ric. Sam­plers are a great way to prac­tice new stitch­es. Even if you’re think­ing, “Yeah, but I know some stitch­es!” there are lit­er­al­ly hun­dreds of them. And while YouTube is a help­ful place to learn stitch­es, sam­plers are a place for you to try them.

Sam­plers are an embroi­dery tra­di­tion but like many things in the prac­tice, they have been reimag­ined by con­tem­po­rary cre­ators. Here are some of my favorites.

Learn a variety of stitches when you embroider these contemporary samplers.