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This Spring Embroidery Hoop Art is my most detailed hoop, yet. I've just started embroidery hoop art about a year ago, and have been working my way up to more difficult pieces. I'm happy with how this one turned out, too. I've included a free pattern and stitch explanations for you below, if you'd like to create this embroidery hoop art for yourself.

Today's Spring Embroidery Hoop Art is actually a part of this month's Thrifty Style Team. All of my friends have shared their own thrifty fun at the end of this post. My contribution of an embroidery hoop is one of my favorite thrifty decor items...embroidery is a relatively inexpensive hobby and I LOVE finding hoops (and floss and fabric, too) at my local thrift stores. This Spring Embroidery Hoop Art is a great embroidery hoop pattern for beginners. In another post, I've also shared a complete tutorial on how to embroider the leaves on this hoop, as well.

Our Thrifty Style team has some incredible ideas for you this month.  Below are my fantastic thrifty team mates.

Redhead Can Decorate

2 Bees in a Pod

At the Picket Fence

Bliss Ranch

Chatfield Court

Cottage at the Crossroads

DIY Beautify

Duke Manor Farm

The How-To Home

I Should be Mopping the Floor

Salvage Sister and Mister

Smart Fun DIY

The Painted Hinge Farmhouse

What Meegan Makes

Wife in Progress

If you're new to embroidery, the above book is my little stitch bible. I keep it in my embroidery bag and refer to it often. The designs in it are nice, however, I love it for the stitch tutorials it has illustrated. It covers all of the basic stitches and a few more. 500 Simply Charming Designs for Embroidery is a great one to add to your craft library.

Spring Embroidery Hoop Art

This embroidery hoop is a combination of large, wagon-wheel style flowers (I used the embroidery hoop flower tutorial from Making Jiggy for all 15 of my flowers), my easy embroidered leaves (tutorial), a chain stitch, and simple back-stitched text. 

I find embroidery hoops at thrift stores all the time. I ended up getting these half off, too...so a really nice deal! I love it when I find the really ginormous quilting hoops, since they can be a bit spendy. I use those for embroidery hoop art, too. I shared this larger embroidery hoop on my Instagram feed earlier this month. 

Download this Spring Embroidery Hoop Art pattern for your own personal use. This is for a 10" hoop.

If the above link for the pattern isn't working, try this alternate one.

Again, this pattern is designed for a 10" embroidery hoop. I used a very light dotted pattern for my fabric. After fitting the fabric into the embroidery hoop, I laid it on top of my printed pattern to trace. I do not have a light table, but instead an old-school office light from the 1950s (it's fluorescent...weird buzzing noise and all), that does the job. I just lay my pieces on a regular table, shine the light on top and I am able to perfectly trace everything out. Instead of the usual water-soluble pens, I fell in love with these erasable Pilot FriXion pens for sewing and embroidery. To erase the ink, simply hold your steaming iron just hovering above it...it's so cool to watch it disappear. 

The above are all of the stitches used for this embroidery hoop. Again, I'll be back tomorrow with the simple leaf tutorial. And I used the floral embroidery tutorial from Making Jiggy for all of my flowers.

Spring Embroidery Hoop Art Colors

• Yellow: DMC 117-444 Dark Lemon
• Aqua: DMC Stranded Cotton 993
• Red: DMC 117-606 Bright Orange Red
• Green: DMC Stranded Cotton 699

These leaves are very simple, but somewhat time consuming and can use a load of floss. I went through about three bundles.

Until I get a big embroidery hoop art gallery wall put together, I'm using this new spring design in my coffee bar area.

I finish my hoops in a very simple manner, since I hang most of them. I use felt, cut in a circle and carefully glued in place to cover the floss craziness on the back of a hoop. I trim the excess fabric, too. It's not the prettiest back, but it's ideal for hanging the finished pieces.


Like I mentioned, I used my Easy Leaf Embroidery Tutorial in this Spring Embroidery Hoop Art. You can also see this same method of embroidering leaves in my Mother's Day Hoop Art (shown in the video below):

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