It’s official: 🍄 mushrooms are the fall motif that never really left.
From fairy tale illustrations to forestcore fashion, mushrooms are everywhere — and they’re perfect to stitch.
But here’s the thing: not all mushroom projects are the same. At Stitched Stories, we’ve given this timeless motif a few different treatments so you can stitch your way — whether that’s classic woodland, witchy and weird, or cozy cottage vibes.
A recent timeline of mushrooms trends
2019–2020: Mushrooms began popping up in cottagecore and naturecore aesthetic circles (especially on TikTok and Instagram).
2021–2022: The trend broke into mainstream retail: mushroom mugs, pillows, wall art, and prints appeared everywhere from Urban Outfitters to Target.
2023–2024: Mushrooms evolved into a multi-niche obsession: visible in food, wellness, interiors, and fiber arts.
2025: Still going strong, but with more folk, moody, and vintage-inspired twists—leaning into dark cottagecore, forest fantasy, and handmade nostalgia.
Here’s our Mushrooms embroidery kit. The shading on the large cluster of classic Amanita Muscaria mushrooms is achieved with blackwork-inspired patterns. Take a closer look to see how the geometric pattern gets progressively more detailed in combination with colors darkening.
The smaller Liberty Caps on tall stems are filled with another geometric pattern and multiple colors. The underground root system has yet one more geometric pattern.
Our Halloween-favorite, Potions Pantry, includes a pickled mushroom floating in its own jar.
Use satin stitch for the cap, split stitch for the gills and chain stitch for the annalus. Along with the bottled mushrooms are roots, herbs, eyeballs, and a love potion.
When you stitch this Cuckoo Clock, you enter into a layered world of color and motif: It’s a clock. It’s a birdhouse. It’s home to a little woodland scene.
That woodland scene on the clock ledge includes mushrooms, along with whimsical trees, a rabbit and a fox.
With our Mushrooms Stick & Stitch patterns you can add mushrooms to your own fabric base—whether it’s on a small framed piece or the yoke of your denim jacket.
We’ve also got a Potions Stick & Stitch with that pickled mushroom reapeated a few times. I’ve framed them in little hoops that are quick to stitch.
Whether you’re going for cottagecore charm or dark folklore feels—
—mushrooms let you bring the forest inside, one stitch at a time.
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