FREE CREWEL EMBROIDERY PATTERNS PDF

With 2 shapes we are able to choose the best one for different applications.

The square has worked wonderfully.I like them both. It is obvious that you put much time and trouble into composing these posts (which I am sure detracts seriously from your overall stitching time), and they are truly inspiring. However, this time I shall start with one of the sweet Tristan Brooks samplers. Which is somehow very fitting: one of my very first embroidery projects as a child was a stem stitched rooster outline on a potholder. I cannot imagine that there are any basic aspects of project setup and execution that you have not already covered.Īll that preamble to say that your rooster is tempting me to try embroidery again. Just a quick comment to wish you a very Happy New Year and tell you just how much I appreciate your wonderful stitching blog.Įven though I had not stitched in years, I was seduced by your marvellous tutorial on long and short satin stitching (which I did not complete because I was in over my head: I was not very good at satin stitching to begin with and the single strand of floss forced me to work under a magnifier, which was not comfortable).Įvery one of your tutorials is most informative and very inspiring. There are all kinds of reasons to sign up for the Needle ‘n Thread daily newsletter! Check them out and sign up today! Happy Last Day of 2009!! Looking for inspiration & information on hand embroidery? If there’s anything in particular you’re curious about concerning this project, or if there’s anything in the whole process of completing a project that you would like in-depth coverage of by way of a tutorial, leave a comment below. I prefer the “square” design as opposed to the elongated one. I’ll be setting up this project today, and then I’ll walk you through what I do with it in the upcoming weeks, including recommendations on threads, fabrics, needles, and so forth.Īfter fiddling a bit with the design above, I made some changes, and the following rooster will actually be the one I plan to stitch: Anyway, play with it to find the size you like, that you think would be manageable. The whole thing should fit ok in a 10″ square stretcher bar frame, which is what I’m planning to use, but I actually will reduce the pattern (from the PDF) slightly (maybe 10% smaller).

FREE CREWEL EMBROIDERY PATTERNS PDF

If you print the following PDF pattern, it fits inside an 8.5 x 11 sheet of paper – the height of the whole design is about 8.5 inches, and the width about 5.5″.

This gives me a good excuse to use a variety of threads, while at the same time allowing me to make comparisons between different threads. I have a specific color range in mind for the rooster, but I don’t have the color range I would like to work with in any one brand of thread.

What I’ll be doing is embroidering this piece on Legacy Linen Twill, using a variety of threads, most of which will be wool or a wool / silk blend. Once I started thinking in terms of “embroidery pattern” – and especially “crewel work” – the poor bird underwent a shocking transformation. I’ve adapted the elements of this design from different sources – the flowers come from this embroidery pattern already posted here on Needle ‘n Thread, and the rooster is a loose interpretation – crewel-fied – of a cartoony piece of clipart, for which I no longer have the source. I’ll be working on this design, which I thought I’d share with you. For my upcoming comparison of wool and wool blend threads for hand embroidery, I needed a design to embroider.

Free crewel embroidery patterns