It’s Friday! Yay!! And you know what that means? We’re moving forward with The Christmas Mitten today!

If you’re just joining in on this project, the Christmas Mitten is a stitch-along here on Needle ‘n Thread, where we will be working together through the embroidery and finishing of a sampler-style Christmas Mitten ornament. You can read all the details about the stitch-along here, if you’d like to see how it works.

We offer a full materials kit for the stitch-along. It includes everything you need to create your own mitten ornament, with plenty of thread and beads left over.

If you’re a member of the Needle ‘n Thread Community on Patreon, you have already received this installment. In fact, the PDF posted yesterday on Patreon covers all the embroidery on the mitten project. I can’t quite fit as much information in a blog post as I can in a PDF, so I went ahead and prepared all the embroidery instructions for this project in the first PDF.

Earlier this week, I published the patterns, and we set up the project and transferred it. You can read all about that process here.

Today, we’re going to discuss some stitching tips that apply to the project as a whole, and then we’ll embroider the first five bands on the mitten.