Personal embroidery studioIn development

Little Keepsakes

An Arabic-first embroidery app that helps beginners turn a name and a small story into a stitchable keepsake.

Debug-signed Android preview, not a Play Store release. It has not yet been tested on a physical phone; review the chart before stitching.

Little Keepsakes Arabic gallery showing embroidery templates on desktop

Built forBeginner stitchers and makers of personal gifts

My roleProduct design, pattern engine, localization, and Android packaging

StatusInstallable Android preview. The APK builds successfully; physical-device and real-stitch validation are still pending.

Problem

Making a personal embroidered gift can mean juggling a design tool, a stitch chart, a shopping list, and a separate progress tracker.

What shipped

Twelve starting motifs, ten palettes, exact colour codes, lettering placement, and flippable decorations.

A compact phone editor with an expandable live preview, simpler option panels, and bottom-reach design and stitching actions.

A supply checklist, fabric size, thread colours and recorded shop codes, plus a shareable shopping list.

Guided stitch marking that moves to the next unfinished square, with exact progress saved across up to 30 projects.

Arabic by default, right-to-left interface for mixed Arabic and English text, plus English and Hebrew options, offline saving, export, share, and Android printing.

Little Keepsakes Arabic design gallery on a phone-sized screen — Choose from twelve motifs on a phone

Arabic mobile editor with a compact live embroidery preview and a bottom Continue action — Edit with the pattern in view and Continue within reach

Arabic mobile editor showing the new butterfly motif and decoration controls — Adjust decoration and layout while the stitch chart updates

Arabic preparation checklist showing fabric and thread readiness with a recorded thread code — Gather fabric and threads, and save the codes you buy

Arabic guided stitch chart with the mark-and-next control at the bottom of a phone screen — Mark & next stays near your thumb while the chart remains visible

System shape