Amazing Embroidery (26 pics)

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My mom worked for 4 years almost every day on this cross-stitching to make a present for my older sister.

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Over 5,000 hours and 3+ years in the works! My mother finally completed her counted cross-stitch with 606,875 stitches.

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Finally finished the piece I’ve been working on for 18 months. A collage of all the Harry Potter book covers!

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My mom sewed this mermaid over 18 years ago and it has been left folded up inside a cupboard. I keep telling her she should frame it!

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In memory of my sweet boy. I’ll love you forever.

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I don’t name my embroidered pieces because people may see something different in them.

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This is a wedding gift for my future daughter-in-law. It says what her name will be when she marries my son and their wedding date. The cross belonged to my late husband. He would’ve loved her.

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I’m a father who learned to cross-stitch because his daughter wanted an ’old-fashioned’ Aurora picture. Page 1 complete of a 9-page, full-coverage piece. This took me about 5 days, but that pace will not be maintained...

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First time trying to freehand-embroider with this portrait of my niece!

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Here’s my uncle, super proud of his latest work, The Last Supper.

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I’m so proud to share my embroidery progress from 2014 — 2020. No talent here, just hours and hours of practice and hard work!

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I tried to do a self-portrait.

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A 2020 update: lost the boyfriend but kept the cat. Priorities!

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My friend bought her sofa from a company that told her they’d lost it and she wouldn’t have it in time for Christmas. I cross-stitched a pattern with a sassy comment she sent to the sofa company in anger in an effort to cheer her up.

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I did it!!! The biggest finish ever and it took almost 5 years!

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My dad’s an obstetrician and for his birthday, I made him an embroidered version of one of Leonardo da Vinci’s fetus studies.

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The lavender fields of Provence for my dad’s fifty-third birthday (because he never stops talking about that place)...

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I cross-stitched all of our guests for our wedding!

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My third ever embroidery — loosely based on Wheatfield Under Thunderclouds by Van Gogh.

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Sunshine on a rainy day.

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Beginning to embroider, but I’m a guy and a lot of my pals make fun of this sort of stuff. I was proud of this and thought you people might appreciate it.

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I would think they were crazy if someone told me I would love cross-stitching at 10 years old. Yes, here I am.

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It’s my first custom landscape in this style. Thoughts?

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This is Robert De Niro, hand-embroidered for over 40 hours. Enjoyed this one and my husband was a happy birthday boy.