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Our Thimbles & Tales Library

Explore our carefully curated resources designed to nurture your creativity. Every book in our collection supports the community's joy of crafting, providing the patterns and stories that bring makers together.

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Thimbles & Tales: Santas: A Simple Stitchery Collection

A cozy collection of primitive-inspired Christmas embroidery designed for stitchers who love handmade holidays.

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Thimbles & Tales: Stitched for the Kitchen

Discover 12 simple outline embroidery designs created especially for dish towels, perfect for relaxing sessions.

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Thimbles & Tales: Sewing room Sampler collection

Turn an ordinary sewing case into a treasured handmade heirloom with these beautiful story-driven motifs.

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Thimbles & Tales A Merry Little Santa Collection

Stitch a little. Give a little. Believe a little.

Welcome to A Merry Little Santa Collection, a cheerful Christmas cross-stitch book from Thimbles & Tales, created for stitchers who love handmade holidays, happy Santas, cozy traditions, and projects meant to be brought out year after year.

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Thimbles & Tales Home Sweet Home: Simple Embroidery for Cozy Handmade Home

Home Sweet Home: Simple Embroidery for a Cozy, Handmade Home is a warm and welcoming collection of embroidery projects inspired by the little things that make a house feel like home—flowers from the garden, a favorite chair, tea shared with friends, quilts tucked over the arm of a sofa, and treasures made by hand.

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Thimbles & Tales Christmas Gingerbread: Stitch Bake Decorate Celebrate

Slow down and savor the sweetest season of the year with A Gingerbread Christmas, a cozy embroidery book from Thimbles & Tales that celebrates the simple joys of handmade holidays.

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Thimbles & Tales Cottage Living: Stitch Slow Down Enjoy Home

Slow down. Open the windows. Feed the birds. Bake the bread. Read the book. Light the candle.

Welcome to a slower, simpler way of living with Thimbles & Tales: Cottage Living—a cozy cross-stitch collection inspired by the beauty of everyday moments.

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Thimbles & Tales Grandma's Redwork

Stitch the memories. Treasure the stories. Pass them on.

Step back into Grandma’s house—where an apron hung by the kitchen door, a button jar waited on the shelf, good linens were saved for company, and a sewing basket was never far from her favorite chair.

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Thimbles & Tales Little lambs & Lovely Things

Little Lambs & Lovely Things is a charming collection of simple embroidery projects created for stitchers who love cottages, flowers, handmade treasures, and the quiet encouragement found in making something beautiful with their own hands.

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Thimbles & Tales The Embroidered Pillowcase

8 Heirloom Pillowcase Sets • Simple Embroidery • Linen Sprays • Homemade Bedroom Comforts

There was a time when even the simplest household linens were made special by hand.

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Thimbles & Tales Halloween at Thimble Cottage: Simple Embroidery for a Cozy & Slightly Spooky Autumn

Halloween at Thimble Cottage is a cozy collection of simple embroidery projects inspired by old cottages, autumn gardens, mysterious little ghosts, witch hats, pumpkins, sewing baskets, and all the handmade charm of October.

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Thimbles & Tales Stitches From the Farmhouse

Bring a little farmhouse charm to your kitchen—one happy stitch at a time.

Welcome to Stitches From the Farmhouse, a cozy Thimbles & Tales embroidery collection filled with sweet farm friends, simple stitches, handmade gifts, and a few delicious treats from the farmhouse kitchen.

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Thimbles & Tales: A Little Book of Snowmen

 A Little Book of Snowmen is a cozy collection of simple embroidery projects designed for quiet winter afternoons, handmade gifts, and stitchers who enjoy charming projects without complicated techniques.

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Thimbles & Tales: Color Between the Stitches — A Cottage Kitchen

Inspired by old-fashioned kitchens, well-loved recipe boxes, mixing bowls, gingham cloths, and handmade treasures, this book teaches you how to use colored pencils on fabric alongside simple outline embroidery to create charming projects without filling every area with complicated stitches.

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Thimbles & Tales The Little Needlework Book: Lessons in Simple Outline Embroidery

Inspired by the charming needlework lesson books of long ago, The Little Needlework Book: Lessons in Simple Outline Embroidery introduces the quiet pleasure of hand embroidery through easy stitches, simple exercises, cheerful designs, and useful little projects.

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Thimbles & Tales A Little Simmer-Pot Kitchen: Simple recipes & Sewing from the Heart of the Home

Fill your home with wonderful fragrance—and your gift basket with a little handmade love.

A Little Simmer-Pot Kitchen brings together two of life's coziest pleasures: something lovely simmering on the stove and something handmade waiting to be given.

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Thimbles & Tales The Witches' Stitchery

Inside this charming primitive embroidery collection, you’ll meet twelve wonderfully different witches, each with her own personality and story. There’s a stitching witch, a kitchen witch, a garden witch, a quilting witch, a candy-loving witch, and even a witch who has a little trouble remembering where she parked her broom.

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Thimbles & Tales: Mama’s Aprons: Simple Embroidery Inspired by the Aprons We Remember

Inside you'll find a charming collection of simple, beginner-friendly embroidery designs inspired by the aprons we remember, including everyday aprons, baking aprons, garden aprons, canning aprons, sewing aprons, Christmas aprons and more.

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A Little French Country Embroidery (Thimbles & Tales)

Bring a little French country charm to your home—one simple stitch at a time.

You don’t need complicated stitches, expensive supplies, or years of embroidery experience to make something beautiful.

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Thimbles & Tales Bluework from the French Country Kitchen

French Country Bluework for the Kitchen is a charming collection of eight original embroidery designs created especially for kitchen towels. Inspired by the simplicity of traditional redwork, these designs are stitched primarily in a single beautiful shade of blue, using easy outline stitches and no heavily filled areas.

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Thimbles & Tales: Mama’s Aprons: Simple Embroidery Inspired by the Aprons We Remember

Inside you'll find a charming collection of simple, beginner-friendly embroidery designs inspired by the aprons we remember, including everyday aprons, baking aprons, garden aprons, canning aprons, sewing aprons, Christmas aprons and more.

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