This beautiful rose pattern is easy for beginners to stitch and if you are experienced at greetings card embroidery you will find it quick to complete. The downloadable stitching pattern includes step-by-step instructions and a pricking pattern. The rose design is suitable for many occasions including birthdays, anniversaries and thank you cards…

Thank you to everyone who has provided useful feedback to my question “Do you like the size of the Pinbroidery patterns?” In order to take the survey to the next stage I have produced a reduced size version of the flower corners pattern. It is available free from the Pinbroidery web site blog…

This beautiful Easter egg pattern is easy for beginners to stitch and if you are experienced at greetings card embroidery you will find it quick to complete. The downloadable pattern includes step-by-step instructions. The egg is decorated with tiny multicoloured beads. An alternative to beads could be self-adhesive jewels or sequins…

Prick and Stitch blog reader Cheryl Rose has sent us a picture of her variation on the free Valentine hearts pattern published here earlier in the week. Cheryl has replaced the words with a beautiful rose decoupage…

This beautiful Valentine Hearts pattern is easy for beginners to stitch and if you are experienced at embroidery on paper you will find it quick to complete. The downloadable pattern includes step-by-step instructions. As well as Valentines cards it could be used as an anniversary card. Just leave off the Valentines greeting and substituting another greeting using the free Stitching Cards TrueType font or a sticker…

I originally designed the candle pattern for my String Art Fun web site and it has been popular with string art enthusiasts. A number of card crafters have said that they would like to try it as a greetings card pattern so I have now converted it for prick and stitch…

This Christmas bauble pattern is easy to stitch as most of the work comprises of stem stitch. The downloadable pattern includes instructions for stem stitch…

I have been looking at the search terms that visitors have used to find this blog. “Easy stitching patterns” appears regularly. So with this in mind I have designed a Christmas pattern that should be easy for beginners to stitch. If you are not a beginner it will be good for producing quicker stitched Christmas cards…

This corner scroll pattern is easy to stitch directly on to a greetings card. The simple design is worked in stem stitch. The photograph below shows the scrolls on a hammered cream card stitched in green thread. I have added a photograph of an iris that I took in my garden. You could add a picture with decoupage, rubber stamping, teabag folding etc.

Corner scroll card with an iris picture.The corner scrolls could also be used on a square card by repositioning the pricking pattern…

I have just designed a prick and stitch flower pattern for visitors to the Prick And Stitch Is My Craft web site. You can use this simple design to try out the stitching card technique.

Prick and stitch flower card.I have used Kreinik metallic thread in green, red and gold on a hammered white card. The stem and flower outlines are worked in stem stitch. The flower centre and leaves are worked in crossing fill…