Bonroy Beginners Stitch Practice Kit, 82 Different Stitches, Stitch Sampler Kit for Craft Lover,Printed Embroidery Design Patterns, Full Range Accessories

Got as a gift for my sister and she loves it.

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

The stitching instructions are not the best, I know the basic stitches but I still couldn’t follow the instructions. However all most if not all these stitches have how to videos on YouTube. The good thing about this kit is it includes everything you need to do this project. And it will make a nice wall hanging. It’s nice but maybe not best for beginners.

This set is so complete and so perfect for learning the stitches!

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 Amazon 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.

The step-by-step stitch guide is excellent quality! The cover and pages are thick. I really love that the left hand pages have the names and pictures of the stitches, as well as the strand count for each stitch and the right hand pages have photo tutorials, written instructions on how to do the stitches, and uses for the stitches. The embroidery cloth is thick and well made; the embroidery floss is soft to the touch and feels very durable; the hoop is just a basic hoop; the other accessories are cheap and low quality: the scissors are dull and I feel as if they will fray the floss when cutting it. The needle threader looks and feels cheap. The thin wire feels as if it will fall out after a handful of uses. The kit does come with extra wire (included with the needles). The needles feel a little soft and bendable. The little container containing the needles and wire is thick, durable, and the lid stays in place so there is no chance of it accidentally coming off. The seam ripper is the same as any that comes in sewing kits. I would recommend getting a better pair of scissors or snippers. I do cross stitching and used to embroider as a child, but I never learned all of these stitches. I am very eager to use this!

Needle threader broke apart on first use. I have used several needle threaders, and this one is just very, very cheaply made. Scissors are also cheap. I'm not expecting super high quality, but breaking on first use is crappy.

The stiches are well documented with instructions. There are two drawbacks. The first is that the design on the pattern cloth is not permanent. If it gets wet the item is ruined. The second is equally annoying. There are broken lines to cut the pattern but there is no margin or space between the lines.