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.
I love these Anne - such cute simple designs,I'm sure I will be taking advantage of these, thank you! Perfect for winter nights, I find myself embroidering more these days at night in front of the TV,. I have a question for you - how do you transfer your designs onto fabric? I have searched in vain for one of those iron on pencil thingies but always end up using the old window trick with a water soluble marker.
Posted by: lina | November 18, 2008 at 08:14 AM
Lina,
I use a Sulky iron on pen that you can find here
http://www.sulky.com/transferpens/
Posted by: Anne | November 19, 2008 at 09:00 AM
these are so, so cute! thanks, will add them to my to-do-wish-list!
Posted by: melissa s. | November 19, 2008 at 09:15 AM
soo cute!!
Posted by: brit | November 20, 2008 at 04:52 PM
What is it about eyes? I've been trying to perfect an embroidered eye and I'm ready to just paint it with fabric paint. I go between large weird eye and small evil eye and can't seem to get it right.
Posted by: rebecca | November 20, 2008 at 06:14 PM
My eyes are always stitched unevenly too. Once I tried to do eyes with beads on a cross stitch and even they were lop-sided. When I embroider on cardstock, I color them in with a Sharpie so they look pretty much the same. I love the patterns! Thanks for sharing them, Anne!
Posted by: Patty | November 26, 2008 at 05:42 AM
Eeekk! Sooo cute! I gotta link this to my blog for everyone to see!
Posted by: Christy | December 03, 2008 at 07:53 AM
Oh I think she is so cute. I make Nisse and Tomtens too.
On my blog www.deirdradoan.blogspot.com
Posted by: Deirdra Doan | November 18, 2009 at 07:24 PM