Embroidery fans, assemble! We’re huge fans of creativity, art, and making things with your hands. We wouldn’t be Bored Panda if we weren’t. And the r/Embroidery subreddit never fails to impress us!
An online community of nearly 703k ‘stitchers,’ it’s a space that’s dedicated to hand and machine embroiderers to exchange tips, techniques, resources, and ideas. Not to mention share their incredibly impressive creations!
We’ve collected some of the most impressive recent projects that were shared and praised on the r/Embroidery subreddit to inspire you Pandas to give embroidery a shot. So scroll down and upvote the works that wowed you the most. And if you’re ever in need of some additional inspiration, check out Bored Panda’s previous features about r/Embroidery here: Part 1, Part 2, and Part 3.
#1 I Think This Is The Greatest Thing I’ve Ever Stitched
Image source: _kiriki
#2 Morning On Mt. Sanitas, 8″ Landscape. This Took Absolutely Forever!
Image source: alphapinene
#3 My 9 Year Old Son Did This Free Hand And Wanted To Share
Image source: Fearsomeguns
#4 Whats The Best Quality Embroidery You’ve Ever Seen? This Cat Embroidery Is By Hiroko Kubota And The Attention To Detail Is Amazing
Image source: JustAnEnglishman
#5 Lots Of French Knots On 9” Hoop
Image source: Miuembroidery
#6 It Took Me Several Months To Finish This 8″ Pet Portrait – I Even Ombré Dyed The Fabric Myself!
Image source: Florally
#7 New Finished Embroidery
Image source: embroiderybynusik
#8 Coral Reef Day/Night
Image source: mrszubris
#9 And It’s
Image source: LetsEscapeEarth
#10 Velociraptor Piece I Am Working On!
Image source: Bustedflush91
#11 Thread Painting On 8” Hoop. This One Is Challenging, I Struggle A Lot On The Body
Image source: Miuembroidery
#12 After Having Many Conflicted Thoughts About This Piece, It Is Finally Finished And I Am Quite Happy With How It Turned Out!!
Image source: HoopsEmbro1dery
#13 The Four Seasons Of Homer Disappearing Into A Bush. What Do You Think- Are The Fabric Choices Ok?
Image source: clure04
#14 First Time Entering A Competition
Image source: L1veFrom0akland
#15 Mixed Material Embroidery. What Do You Think?
Image source: DitiBaruah
#16 Made A 9” Thread Painting Landscape. Can’t Tell Which One Is More Time Consuming, French Knot Flowers Or Tiny Stitches Trees
Image source: Miuembroidery
#17 Today Is World Mental Health Day And I Just Want To Say To Each And Every Person That Reads This, You Are Magical & Deserve To Be Here, Hold On And Always Have Hope
Image source: jadeillustrates
#18 Pocket Full Of Posies
Image source: karmaggie
#19 First Post, Make It Count
Image source: NoConsequence7947
#20 First Piece Ever. I Wanted To Share With Y’all Since I Have Nobody In Real Life To Share It With! This Thing Was So Frustrating
Image source: Redheaded_Loser
#21 Another ~ Spooky ~ Design!
Image source: kenz024
#22 Portrait For A Friend Who Lost A Child. This Was His Favorite Hiking Trail
Image source: sew-important
#23 My Third Attempt- Very Much A Beginner So Please Be Kind!
Image source: franticporcupine
#24 A Tale As Old As Time…
Image source: Axora
#25 My Beautiful Octopus Ready To Go Back To The Ocean
Image source: PaulinaRossellArt
#26 Fox For My Housemate On Her Jacket
Image source: FulmarusGlacialis
#27 Don’t Believe Everything You Think
Image source: kenz024
#28 I’ve Been Working On This For A While And I’m Happy To Finally Be Able To Put It Out There. The Last 1.5 Years Have Been Rough, With Multiple Life Changing Events, And Stitching Kept Me Sane. Worked On The Back Looking Better Too. Design By Trish Burr
Image source: ThistleAndWool
#29 My Grandpa Wrote This To Me On My Wedding Day (To Be Read On Our First Anniversary). He Passed Away Suddenly Two Months Later So I Embroidered This Note To Memorialize Him
Image source: Difficult-Prize6546
#30 Giant Jungle Update! Come A Long Way Since Last Post
Image source: V_MACD
#31 First Time Embroidering A Sweater! It’s Far From Perfect, But I’m V Proud
Image source: Noodlebri
#32 Bleached Out Coral Reef Embroidery This Has Been A Stop, Start Piece Of Work. I Have Found It A Conflicting Piece To Work On. I Have Made Some Good Progress This Week And Am Determined To Finish It
Image source: sewnbycollette
#33 Detailed Pet Embroidery Portrait. It’s Really Challenging Fo Do A Such Realistic Portrait
Image source: OksanaBalanovska
#34 So, After A While I Made A Post Asking For Help Here, And I Finally Finished My First Embroidery, What Do You Guys Think? I Need Some Feedbacks
Image source: marcoshe1
#35 All The French Knots In The World Haha
Image source: Many-Cardiologist-77
#36 My 2-Year-Old’s First Embroidery Piece! She Calls It “Sprinkles”
Image source: colormuse
#37 Starling Work In Progress
Image source: FulmarusGlacialis
#38 Gift For The Vet Who Spent Four Hours With An Endoscope Extracting Embroidery Needles And Bits Of Pincushion From My Idiot Dog’s Stomach
Image source: alphapinene
#39 First Embroidery Piece
Image source: FickleDot7636
#40 A Sunday Afternoon, 6” Hoop
Image source: Miuembroidery
#41 Sophie From Howls Moving Castle In A 12 Inch Hoop!
Image source: DiagonKitty
#42 Just Finished! Any Advice On How To Keep Definition When Working On Small Details?
Image source: BluePoo4U
#43 “Grasses Of Great Britain” – A Winner From The Designer Bookbinders Competition
Image source: mindemonster
#44 First Attempt Shoe Embroidery – Regretting Choosing * White *, Dirty Way Too Easily
Image source: ACuriousCheshire
#45 Peony And Butterfly
Image source: iLabrador
#46 Just Finished This Jean Jacket!
Image source: catherine237
#47 I Like To Take Photographs Of Plants After It Rains. So I Decided To Try And Make An Embroidery Mimicking Those Photographs. Here’s My First Sample
Image source: natstitches
#48 Progress Update – Almost Complete
Image source: Island_of_Aiaia
#49 My New Mixed Media Embroidery
Image source: DitiBaruah
#50 Patty And Selma
Image source: sewvulgar
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