Comparison Embroidery Hoop
I’ve had a fair share of car trips and plane rides lately, and wanted some hand work to take along. I found a ton of embroidery hoops at a garage sale last month (a grocery bag stuffed full of all different sizes for $5!), and have wanted more of them to put around the house since doing an embroidery hoop swap earlier this year. I decided to stitch up one of my favorite phrases lately:
Sometimes I have a tendency to look at something awesome about someone else, and instead of thinking how great it is that they are blessed with that talent/personality trait/situation, I think about how unfair my life is that I don’t have it. Which is completely lame. And messes up being happy about things I have that I should be psyched about because my life is pretty good.
So here’s to not letting other people’s gifts make me forget about my own. If the grass looks greener on the other side, maybe I should just water my own grass! Or appreciate that I even have grass.
I used this sparkley DMC embroidery floss for the word joy. While it was a huge pain to work with, I am completely in love with how it shines! I also painted the outer hoop red, and I love how it adds a pop of color and ties in the red from the word comparison 
And here’s the image I made up to trace for my embroidery, in case you want to make your own or just print it out! Download the pdf here. It is sized for a 6″ circle hoop – but you can adjust the scale as desired. I ended up freehand-adjusting the word ‘joy’ and adding hearts – but this is what I started from.
love this so much!
I love this! The colors, the stitching, the quote. Beautiful.
This is just what I needed! Thank you so much ~ very generous of you to share!
Hi! Just found your blog through HappyHrProjects!! LOVE your project and I’m pinning it as well
Paula
lifeasweknowitbypaula.blogspot.com
What a wonderful quote and great embroidery pattern. Pinned it!
I love this! I only recently picked myself up some embroidery hoops with the intention of doing something creative with them.. I know exactly what to do now! Thank you so much for sharing
LOVE this quote! would love for you to come link up to the Hearts&Homes link up, happening now at http://www.mercyinkblog.com such a TRUE and encouraging quote
sweet! Thanks for sharing the image for the stitchery!
Great reminder. I feel like I need that posted in my home where I would always see it. Beautiful work too! I love the hoop painted red.
Amanda @ http://www.the-cadence.com
always a good reminder!
I love the quote and the embroidery! It looks beautiful! I just pinned it.
Im just learning how to hand stitch, I love this! What stitch did you use?