#Free hand embroidery patterns pdf#
#Free hand embroidery patterns free#

#Free hand embroidery patterns free#

If you’re looking for more free patterns for hand embroidery, you’ll find plenty of them here, in my free embroidery pattern collection. I hope you enjoy the free design! Looking for More?

#Free hand embroidery patterns pdf#

Here’s the PDF download for the simple floral borders: Or you could use any other method of transfer that you prefer! Free Design Download I love the blue one! Just keep in mind that the lines don’t wash away, so you have to cover them completely. You could also use Sublime Stitching’s Fine-tipped iron-on transfer pen. It’s important, with the red satin stitching from this point onwards, to do your best to keep your stitches smooth and flat. I find that a spray-starched and ironed piece of fabric releases pencil very easily when washed. Now switch to red floss, two strands, and work an upside-down V over the black dot, using the center mark at the top of the dot as the apex of the upside-down V, as shown above. Place the pattern down first on the light table (or taped to a sunny window), pin your fabric onto the pattern, and trace away, using a light touch with a mechanical pencil. If you’re working on a fabric that’s easy to see through with light behind it, I’d trace the design, either using a light table or a sunny window as a light source. Tiny leaves? Just a little granito or daisy stitch would do. For the long leaves, I’d work any variety of stitch there that would fill a long shape: closed herringbone stitch, fishbone stitch, vertical fly stitch worked close – plenty of possibilities. I’d probably do the flower petals in raised satin stitch dots, either leaving the center blank, or working some kind of textured stitch in the center. So many possibilities! Stitch Suggestions The lines could also be repeated, if you wanted to work them across a wide edge on anything – like a towel, a pillow case, a quilt border. Some sites have tutorials, tips, and kits for hand embroidery lovers. Then, I duplicated and flipped it, discovering that it would make a sweet little frame for a monogram, too, if you’re into monograms.īut, even without the monogram, one line of the border – either the top or the bottom line – would make a simple, quick little accent for the center of a towel, or the corner, by tracing or transferring two lines of the design perpendicular to each other. Find a variety of free hand embroidery patterns for personal projects or gifts on these 17 sites, from simple to complex, from floral to animal, from felt to cross stitch. I worked a very simple floral border up earlier this summer, thinking I might use it on a linen towel or even a flour sack towel.Īfter playing around with it for a bit, this was the resulting little border:Īfter doodling up the first line of flowers, I scanned it and then drew it as a vector. Today, just a quick little free hand embroidery design for you.