Seasonal Embroidery - Fall Acorn Border
With autumn shortly upon us, you might be interested in some seasonal embroidery patterns for fall. How about starting with an acorn and leaf border? This would look great on a shirt pocket, on table linens, on a sweater or skirt, or just about anything else you want to use it for.
Here's the pattern:
Click on it for the larger version, then right click on the larger version to save to your computer.
Some stitching suggestions:
A good opportunity to dig through your stash! Use simple outline stitches and multiple colors on the leaves - oranges, yellows, browns, reds, even greens! Use a darker brown on the cap of the acorn, and fill it in with close French knots. Satin stitch the nut in a lighter brown.
You can scale the image up or down on your computer or on a photocopy machine. You can also make the pattern longer or shorter by tracing or eliminating some of the repeats.
Whatever you do with it, have fun!
Here's the pattern:
Click on it for the larger version, then right click on the larger version to save to your computer.
Some stitching suggestions:
A good opportunity to dig through your stash! Use simple outline stitches and multiple colors on the leaves - oranges, yellows, browns, reds, even greens! Use a darker brown on the cap of the acorn, and fill it in with close French knots. Satin stitch the nut in a lighter brown.
You can scale the image up or down on your computer or on a photocopy machine. You can also make the pattern longer or shorter by tracing or eliminating some of the repeats.
Whatever you do with it, have fun!
Posted By: Mary Corbet on Sunday, August 27, 2006
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4 Comments:
Wouldn't this pattern look lovely on a pair of pillow cases?
C.B.
Hey, Clara - I think it would look great on pillow cases. You should make someone a set for Christmas!!
I am new to embroidery and do not know a lot about the craft. I would love to have some of your patterns but I am not clear on how to transfer them to my fabric. I need a 101 lesson on how to get the design from the computer to my fabric, please.
Hi, Debbie -
You can find all kinds of articles here on Needle 'n Thread about transferring your embroidery pattern!
Just look under Tips and Tricks for Hand Embroidery in the right hand column under Editor's Floss. There are quite a few articles listed there for beginners, too.
Later this week, I'll be posting an article on transferring a design, as I start the Long and Short stitch shading series. The first post (about supplies) was posted today, if you want to check it out. Just click the "Home" link above to go to the most recent posts here.
Hope that helps!
MC
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