It’s December 15th and Day 8! Time to turn off your sewing machine, make a cup of tea, and find a comfy chair, because today we are going to embroider.
I love embroidery! I find the slow, rhythmic pace therapeutic and even though I typically use only simple stitches, I think that patchwork paired with embroidery is a killer combination. So here we go!
Today you’ll need:
Dark Blue Print:
2 — 3½” x 14½” rectangles (these can be cut from the same fabric or from two different fabrics)
brown embroidery floss or size 8 perle cotton
We’re going to be embroidering a brown vine onto our dark blue print rectangles — click here for the pattern. I drew dotted lines on the pattern to help you center the vine on your fabric rectangles. Don’t worry that the vine doesn’t extend the full length of the fabric, we’ll be adding more to this component later on.
I used a light box to help transfer the pattern onto my fabric. Don’t have a light box? Try holding your fabric and pattern up to a window or placing a lamp under a glass table or you could use transfer paper — there are no rules here. Transfer the vine pattern onto one rectangle and then flip the pattern over before transferring the vine onto the second rectangle. Here’s what you should end up with:
