Bonroy Beginners Stitch Practice Kit, 82 Different Stitches, Stitch Sampler Kit for Craft Lover,Printed embroidery design patterns, Full Range Acc...

Super fun project for a beginner. Has everything you need and pretty good instructions, and the maker has helpful videos available online.

I love the old-fashioned samplers of embroidery. I have never tried anything other than cross stitching kits, but I saw this large beginning embroidery kit and thought to try it. I am dealing with severe depression and I find that handiwork helps sooth my moods. The pros: I love the size of this sampler. I plan to frame it when completed. The kit is very complete with a wooden hoop! The cons: The instructions are so bad as to be unusable. Luckily, there is YouTube! I have found wonderful instructors online. There is a booklet that comes with the kit, but it is hard to read and scanty information and very poorly written English. There are some online instructions from the maker of the kit (Bonroy) on the ZeeBooth listing and YouTube, but they only have completed less than half of the stitch instructions online. I would still recommend this kit but just be aware of the instruction problem. You can complete this sampler but mostly by using other instructions on YouTube. If they rework the instruction booklet and add more complete online videos for the stitches, this would be a winner.

I love the old-fashioned samplers of embroidery. I have never tried anything other than cross stitching kits, but I saw this large beginning embroidery kit and thought to try it. I am dealing with severe depression and I find that handiwork helps sooth my moods. The pros: I love the size of this sampler. I plan to frame it when completed. The kit is very complete with a wooden hoop! The cons: The instructions are so bad as to be unusable. Luckily, there is YouTube! I have found wonderful instructors online. There is a booklet that comes with the kit, but it is hard to read and scanty information and very poorly written English. There are some online instructions from the maker of the kit (Bonroy) on the ZeeBooth listing and YouTube, but they only have completed less than half of the stitch instructions online. I would still recommend this kit but just be aware of the instruction problem. You can complete this sampler but mostly by using other instructions on YouTube. If they rework the instruction booklet and add more complete online videos for the stitches, this would be a winner.

Super fun project for a beginner. Has everything you need and pretty good instructions, and the maker has helpful videos available online.

First, this kit comes with a wooden hoop. I have several of these types of kits, none of them have come with a wooden hoop yet. It's a decent quality hoop too, it's thick, easy to adjust, and holds the fabric in place. The fabric for the pattern is a nice thick piece, with a decent weight to it. The images are printed clearly on the fabric as well, not blurry like some others I've gotten. Included is the floss, and there appears to be plenty (I haven't finished, but so far each color I have finished has had some left over, plenty for me to make mistakes and need to rip it out). The instructions are a booklet that is clearly printed, has nice pictures showing you the steps, and is easy enough to follow along with, I do wish some of the pics were a bit bigger though. Also included is a tube of needles, folding scissors, needle threader, and a seam ripper. All are decent enough in terms of quality. So far so good, it has been easy enough to follow along with and I've only had to search out one stitch, but it was a doozy once I finally figured it out.