We know that desire to create.
We’re familiar with creating as way to
- be productive,
- learn new skills, and
- simply MAKE something appealing
So now that we’ve cleared up a little bit about why you’re here, let’s talk about how and why we aim to support you in your creative stitching endeavors.
I’m Debbie Hodge, the founder of Stitched Stories,
and I landed here after years of creating in a variety of ways: sewing, embroidery, fiction writing, scrapbooking, website design, and online teaching. I’m the author of a scrapbooking how-to book (Get It Scrapped) and the founder of two online education businesses: GetItScrapped.com and TeachWhatYouDo.com
For over two years (back in 2020), pictures of embroidery were filling my Instagram feed, and I felt the urge to embroider again (after 30 years away)…
but the boxes of counted cross-stitch books in my basement no longer drew me. The cross-stitches felt too orderly for what I wanted to create now.
But what DID I want to create?
I started shopping the web, buying from several wonderful designers I found on Instagram and Etsy.
The kits were lovely. But the patterns weren’t exactly what I wanted to work on.
I wanted designs:
- that were more fun than they were complex.
- that presented a variety of stitches rather than just a few gorgeous ones,
- that offered a design with several areas to stitch, areas I could work in a sitting and that would come together like a collage in the end,
- that reminded me of old-time samplers BUT with modern motifs–and even story lines (just let me get lost in thoughts spurred by the imagery and color).
And that’s how the Stitched Stories was born.
Since July 2020, we’ve shipped over 60,000 embroidery kits and patterns from our Seacoast New Hampshire base.