Embroidery Library Urban Threads The Study

💛 Gilded Embroidery Designs - 60% off!
Two navy blue tote bags with embroidered colorful books, poinsettias, holly, and gold accents are displayed with evergreen branches and red ornaments.

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Stitch Your Christmas Story

Create a festive holiday bookshelf with this multi-piece applique design! Download includes a PDF with step-by-step project instructions to create your tote bag.

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A green book with gold embossed lettering "A Christmas Carol" and candle design lies on a gold wire placemat surrounded by gold pinecones and decorative feathers.

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Merry Magic and a Little Mischief

New Christmas designs for naughty-list regulars, book lovers, and makers with a little magic up their sleeves.

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Embroidery of colorful book spines with holiday designs including poinsettias, holly, snowflakes, ornaments, and a Christmas tree on a dark blue fabric background.
  • Green pillow with embroidered Santa face and red stocking with white Santa embroidery lie on white fur surrounded by gold ornaments and holiday greenery.

    Santa Value Pack - $29.99

    Santa Claus is coming to town, and he's bringing plenty of personality! This Christmas design pack features 34 unique Santa-inspired designs, from classic vintage Santa portraits and elegant redwork to playful takes on jolly old St. Nick.

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  • Gift tags reading Crafted with Attitude displayed on gift boxes, showing the embroidered text design.

    handmade gifts start here

    Get a head start on holiday stitching with embroidered gift ideas for everyone on your list! Browse ideas by interest, style, and more, and get inspired to create unique gifts they'll love.

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Collage of embroidery designs in purple, gold, and pink shades including flowers, animals, holiday motifs, and decorative patterns with text "Gilded Collection Mega Sale 60% Off.

Let your creativity shine with motifs specially designed to create a golden glow - on sale for a limited time!

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Embroidered Christmas bookshelf scene with books, Santa hat, nutcracker, stocking, snow globe, lantern, gingerbread house, and holiday greenery on black fabric.

Your Thread Kit Has Arrived

We partnered with Sulky to design a 12-spool thread collection perfectly matched to the Build a Christmas Bookshelf Scene design pack.  (The thread kit link is an affiliate link; we may earn a small commission on purchases made through this link.)

Order the design pack and thread collection separately, and get ready to start stitching your holiday masterpiece!

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Maker Edition - A Complete Crafting Experience

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Digitally downloadable machine embroidery design showing a microscope, books, crystals, an hourglass, butterflies, and dragonflies in a framed display.

NEW BLOCK!

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$2.50

October Bookshelf Block: Scientific Exploration

Get the new scientific exploration bookshelf block for just $2.50 through October, or FREE with any bookshelf pack for a limited time.
A bookshelf themed machine embroidered wall hanging featuring whimsical, colorful embroidery designs of books and seasonal motifs for each month, displayed on a dark wooden bookshelf between two lit lamps.

Build Your Unique Bookshelf

You loved the bookshelf quilts so much, we're creating more. NEW blocks release each month in 2026—collect them all!

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Unique & Alternative machine embroidery designs

Express your creativity with designs as unique as you are! Designed in-house by a team of artists and creatives, we are proud to specialize in unique, cool, trendy and alternative machine embroidery designs. Urban Threads has designs you won’t find online anywhere else. Files are available for instant download in all embroidery machine file formats, for Brother, Baby Lock, Janome, Bernina, Husqvarna Viking, Pfaff, Singer, and more embroidery machines. Check back often for sales, free designs, and new design releases, as well as simple tutorials and inspiration perfect for beginners or experienced crafters alike!