Stick and Stitch Embroidery Patterns

The easiest way to embroider beautiful birds onto anything you own. Print your designs on water-soluble stabilizer paper, stick it onto any fabric, stitch over the design, then rinse and the paper dissolves. Designed by artist Jaymi Heimbuch, beginner friendly, endlessly reusable.

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Stick and Stitch Embroidery Patterns for Bird Lovers

Stick and stitch is the easiest way to add hand embroidery to anything you own. No tracing, no transfer pens, no guesswork. Just print your designs on water-soluble stabilizer paper (like Sulky Sticky Fabri-Solvy), peel and stick it onto any fabric, stitch over the design, then rinse with warm water. The paper dissolves completely, leaving only your beautiful embroidery behind.

Every pattern in this collection is designed and polished by artist Jaymi Heimbuch, featuring original bird illustrations you will not find anywhere else. From silly geese and coquette bows to elegant songbirds and botanical details, there is a pattern for every personality.

Perfect for Beginners

Never embroidered before? Stick and stitch patterns are the perfect place to start. The designs are simple enough for a complete beginner, the format eliminates the hardest part (transferring your design onto fabric), and each pattern is endlessly reusable. One purchase, unlimited projects.

What You Can Make

Stitch these bird designs onto t-shirts, tote bags, denim jackets, beanies, throw pillows, tea towels, overalls, or anything else made of fabric. Each pattern sheet is resizable using your printer settings, so you can scale designs up or down to fit your project perfectly.

Looking for a different kind of challenge? Try our vintage cross stitch patterns for your next project.

FAQs

Stick and stitch is a method of hand embroidery that uses water-soluble stabilizer paper. You print your design on the paper, peel and stick it directly onto any fabric, stitch over the printed lines, then soak in warm water. The paper dissolves completely, leaving only your embroidery behind. It is the easiest way to embroider because you skip the tricky step of transferring a design onto fabric.

You will need water-soluble stabilizer paper (we recommend Sulky Sticky Fabri-Solvy), a printer (inkjet works best), embroidery floss and a needle, and whatever fabric you want to stitch on. Embroidery hoops are helpful but not required.

No, these patterns are designed for hand embroidery only. They are not formatted for embroidery machines. You print the designs on stabilizer paper and stitch over them by hand.

As many times as you want! The pattern is a PDF file, so you can print it again and again for every new project. One purchase gives you unlimited prints.