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Halloween Embroidery Pattern

I wanted to share this pattern again; Download Halloween Embroidery

I'm sorry I haven't updated this blog since May, but I've been busy doing nothing. At least I'm still getting comments from people selling Russian brides and Viagra!

Alice in Wonderland Embroidery Pattern

You can download the PDF here Download Alice. To transfer the images, you can use embroidery transfer paper or a transfer pen - use the transfer pen on tracing paper & then iron the image on your fabric. Please send me pictures if you do stitch one of these. I want to start one of them soon, but the next couple of months is going to be busy. I was thinking of doing something like this on patterned fabric using only one thread color. Enjoy!

Alice in Wonderland Addict

Let me help you spend some money!

I have this Shinzi Katoh fabric. I name drop like that. I found some here on Etsy. 

Fancy-flours has some Alice themed baking products.

Gera cross stitch pattern at Super Buzzy.

Mad Hatter Party printable play set by Fantasic Toys.

I want to try some peg dolls, similar to the one I made:

Today I had a creative burst and made some Alice in Wonderland embroidery patterns, which I will try to upload tomorrow. Now if I could find the energy to actually stitch one of them. 
 

Vintage Embroidery Patterns

I scanned some of the vintage patterns I found last week, but the pages are larger than letter size, so I had to reduce them. Please let me know if these print o.k., I have to do this at work, so it will be a slow process. Enjoy!

Download Cups & silverware

Download Vintage Cats

 

What Day is it?

 

I'm having trouble focusing right now, the kids are staying up later now that we have more sun in the evening - or I should say light because it won't stop raining. I was so happy when they woke up this morning at 6:30. Long day.

I will make a list soon for Traveling Edward. I finished the Twilight series today, so I am having a crash similar to the end of this season's Lost.

I want to bring the book club back - I will post the name of the book soon, but I was thinking of the one mentioned in the last episode of Lost (can't remember the name). For August I would like to read Stephenie Meyer's The Host - which is from the adult section. I am interested to see how her writing changes when it's rated R and not PG-13.

Finally, I am going to try and scan some of the vintage embroidery patterns I bought. I also started the gnomes, but filled them with color after this photo:

 

I will post a photo when they are finished. I hope you are having a good week.

Free Summer Embroidery Pattern

I haven't stitched any of these yet, so beware. Most of the lines are not straight, so if you want to embroider the gnomes in a straight line, please use a ruler. I should have a catchy title for these...bug on bike, bugs in bathing suits, dragonfly, lemonade escape, garden gnomes jumping rope, and a petulant crab. If you sew any of these, please send me a picture. I want to know if you like these or if I am wasting time drawing stick figures and you are collectively laughing at me. I just noticed the bug with the swim trunks is missing his wings - I can't fix it until next week, so you can add your own or he can be a bug without wings.

Download Summer embroidery pattern

Download Summer wings (same one, but I added the missing wings)

 

 

Holiday Embroidery Patterns

I know it's a little early to discuss Christmas, but I wanted to share some embroidery patterns with you now so that you have time to use them. I thought my drawings were straight and easy to follow, but after I scanned them I saw a lot of crooked lines, so please don't curse me if you decide to try one. I like simple embroidery designs that I can actually finish, so feel free to add any fancy stitching you think would look good. I would love to see your finished product - I haven't had time to stitch these and want to see how they turn out. 

The first set; sugar plum fairies: 

Download sugar_plum_fairies.pdf

 

I had trouble stitching this nisse/tomte; I couldn't get the eye right and tried so many times a hole was wearing in the fabric. I was ready to stitch a pirate patch over her eye. The second set are various nisse/tomtes/gnomes; the bottom pattern may be difficult to embroider because the legs and arms may be too small, but you could enlarge it. Let me know what you think of these - how I could change them so they are easier/fancier to stitch.

Download Tomtes.pdf