Me — Emily Van Hoff

Hi!

I’m Emily.

Handletterer, art director, graphic designer, maker of things. The more of those passions I can fit into one project, the better.

I live in Chicago with my husband and our cat, Laszlo.

Check out my instagram for my latest updates.

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Our sweet goddaughter was baptized today! It’s such an honor and joy to be part of her life and watch her grow up. 🥰

Patterns for some very special gloves that I can not wait to show you! But I was in a wee bit of a hurry to get them done so I have almost zero photographic evidence of their existence besides a cameo in a sideways video at our Airbnb in New York State and one very partial shot of stitching them with my fur niece Abby in Colorado. I will have to wait for @melissamorley’s wedding photos to come back to show you the final product! 🙌

I finally finished this piece! I think satin stitch is bad for me because while it is possible to make it nearly perfect, it takes a million hours. So of course I take a million hours and now it now it essentially looks machine made and then what’s the point of hand making it? But I absolutely love it. Now I just need to figure out what to do with it! Patch for my backpack? #embroideredlettering #letteringembroidery #surfacetype #goodtype #handmadelettering #physicallettering #embroidery #tedioushobbies

@goodtype reminding me that’s been a minute since I made a new @miseryforchicago post! #goodtypetuesday #goodtypesidehustle

I made FIVE new garments over my extended birthday weekend! I have a hard time prioritizing sewing clothes for myself because it doesn’t feel like it’s advancing my marketable skills. (I have zero desire to sew clothes for other people!) So it made for a great birthday weekend activity, something creative that is only for me. 🙂 What are your guilty pleasure hobbies? Those things that we’d love to do if only we had an extra 6 hours in the day. ✂️✂️ In order: #morningglorytop #wonderlandskirt #mitocami #selfdrafted & #cielotop

These two lovebirds got married yesterday!! 🖤🖤

Hi insta friends! I’m 30 today! And I’m pretty excited about it. And I want to start to start showing my face around here more often so today seemed as good a time as any to start. A professional photo from a cousins wedding last year makes it even easier. 😄 I love knowing the faces behind other people’s work, I don’t really know why I assume no one would want to know mine. 🤷🏼‍♀️ By the by, activities for a great birthday include: smoothies and a walk to the lake , sewing a skirt that’s been on the back burner for a year+, lunch on an outside patio in the ☀️, visits from friend + her adorable infant 👶🏻, farmers market 🍒, delivery 🍣, and a hot 🛁. I still have some hours left, what should I add? 🎈🎉

Friends! If you watch my stories, you probably know that I’ve been obsessing over making gloves out of tulle and then embroidering them (saved in the highlight ✨gloves✨). It’s taken about 6 months of pretty consistent fiddling to get a pattern I’m (mostly) happy with, and I embroidered this one this past weekend and finished stitching it up today. I feel like a world of possibility has opened up now and I can’t wait to make all the fancy lettered gloves. I have so many ideas! A breakthrough moment representing a silly amount of hard work. 😅 #handmadegloves #fashiongloves #embroideredgloves #embroideredlettering #letteringembroidery #victorianhand #embroideredtulle #gloves #isewmyclothes #memade @dmc_embroidery #dmcthreads #dmcembroidery #tullegloves