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!
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
I love this acorn border but I cannot get it to resize without losing resolution. Do you have it as a larger file?
Perhaps I’m a bit too BC in embroidery, but with acorns the leaves should be oak leaves and these are definitely not oak leaves of any kind. By the way, “BC” means botanically correct.
As everyone knows, leaves in Nature have an extraordinary variety of shapes and it is rather pleasant to see the correct leaf shape accompany a flower or a fruit. If we make all leaves identical as if they were not very important, where’s the fun? Think of the leaves of asparagus, of nasturtium, of dandelion, holly, mistletoe, fir etc. There’s material for endless embroidering pleasure with only leaves.
Omg i love this pattern same with my grandma
i made her a pillow set and put this on them! she though they were soo cute 
thanks a bunch for putting these up here. I also used a ton of other ones for my boy friend 
he like the hand made stuff better then that bought stuff 
thank you soo much for putting this stuff for others to use 
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Just learning embroidery and am amazed at the help on this website. Thank you