Elemental Stitches

Harvest Inspiration

I found very few completed embroideries for Thanksgiving.  I am working on a pattern list of Thanksgiving embroidery patterns from around the net so look out for that in the next couple days.  Hopefully we will see some more turkeys in the days to come.

1. Autumn Wreath embroidery, 2. Tired Turkey Embroidery, 3. squirrels: the acorn fairy stitchette, 4. Hibernating Bear,

5. Brown Tumbling Leaf Embroidery, 6. hello, autumn, 7. acorn embroidery, 8. Bunny stitch along close up,

9. autumn bird, 10. hosten3, 11. The Guardian (Palomino), 12. AMBER WAVES OF GRAIN.....,

13. Wild Turkey Pillows Custom Embroidery, 14. Squirrel Friend, 15. Fall Embroidery, 16. Finished Turkey Towel

Embroidery Inspiration - Spiders and Webs

1. Black Spider Pouch, 2. spider web, 3. Embroidered Card: Spider Web, 4. dangle on a tattered vintage hankie, 5. Spider Close-up, 6. not to be feared, 7. SPIDER hand embroidered brooch, 8. Spider web, 9. golden spider

Embroidery Inspiration - Owls

1. Owl Embroidery for Fruitloops, 2. Embroidery owl, 3. Owl Embroidery, 4. Buttercup Bag, with Owl, 5. round neck top with owl embroidery, 6. owlie owlie owl, 7. ABC Quilt Block - Owl, 8. Framed Crewel Embroidery Owl circa 1960s, 9. Kathy's finished Owl embroidery! So awesome!!, 10. owl swap, 11. Owl Mandala, 12. Owl patch., 13. Cherry blossom owl, 14. Owl Embroidery - Gift # 1 of 5 things, 15. hello owl critter, 16. Hooty owl zipper pouch

Embroidery Inspiration - Skulls

1. Middle view of skull, 2. Alas poor Yorick of the West, 3. Sugar Skull (WIP), 4. Sugar Skull_Completed, 5. Dia de los Muertos Embroidery, 6. Embroidered Sugar Skull Key Chain, 7. skull and cross bones vintage buttons, 8. Calavera, 9. 102_0828, 10. Dia de los Muertos (close-up of embroidery), 11. Halloween pumpkin pattern, 12. progress..., 13. sugar skull, 14. Tiny Sugar Skull Embroidery, 15. Marigold Sugar Skull, 16. sugar skull embroidery

Alice in Wonderland Costume Contest

I know I promised an embroidery update (working on it!), but I had to show you all this costume.  Kathleen from Grosgrain sews amazing clothing and costumes which she posts as giveaways on her blog.  I fell in love with her Marie Antoinette costume and subscribed to her blog.  Now I see this amazing inspiration.

 

Check out her blog and enter to win these dresses!

Embroidery Inspiration - Pumpkins

1. Cross Stitch - Halloween Fairy, 2. embroidered pumpkin, 3. buttons and pin cushion, 4. pumpkin crowns, 5. Pumpkin etui needlebook part1, 6. Pumpkin, 7. patch of punkins, 8. Harvest Bounty Basket Wrap, 9. Plumpkin Created with fd's Flickr Toys

Childrens Knitted Fingerless Mitts Finished

I took a quick break from knitting my fair isle fingerless mitts after finishing the first one.  I still have to weave in all the ends before I start the next one.  My mom had to make a quick trip to Los Angeles which is about an hour away and I decided to keep her company on the trip.  I needed a quick and simple project that I could do while chatting.  Something I didn't have to think too much about.  I decided to do the same fingerless mitts pattern in a small ( the chunky version), aiming for something that might fit my daughter. 

The pattern is called Alice Mitts by Emily Nimz and I found it on Ravelry.

Instead of using chunky weight yarn I doubled some worsted weight Lions Brand Wool-Ease and took the plunge figuring that they would fit someone I knew. 

This is an awesome pattern.  Its super easy.  Basically you knit a tube then knit flat for a few rows before rejoining, making the thumb hole.  I can imagine a million versions of this.  Cables, fair isle, applique, embroidery... there are lots of possibilities.

Free Halloween Embroidery Patterns To Stitch -New Patterns Added

1. Artex Halloween Transfer - Hot Witch, 2. Artex Halloween Transfer - Skull, 3. Artex Halloween Transfer - Jack-O-Lantern & Bat, 4. free halloween embroidery, 5. Halloween Doodle Embroidery #1, 6. Free Halloween Embroidery Pattern, 7. Free Halloween Embroidery Pattern, 8. FREE PATTERN! Halloween Ghosts!!, 9. full view halloween #1, 10. free ghosties, 11. witchy poo, 12. WB July 1974 October witch

There are so many great artists out there designing great pictures to use for embroidery.  I gave away a free page of Halloween embroidery patterns the other day, but I wanted to search for all the other ones I could find online.  If you have one please leave a link to it in the comments!  Some of the patterns links pictured are repeated below.  Sorry for any repeat links!

Little Witch

Ghosties

Another Little Witch

Halloween Bird

Mr. Dracula

Pumpkin Trio

Halloween Menu

You Must look at Stitchen.thymes Halloween embroideries.  Here, here, here and here.  They are awesome!  The pattern she used is available here.  And here is Crab Apple Hills Blog. 

More awesome inspiration

Remember that you can use coloring books

More coloring pages to embroider

One more to fill you up

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I came across some other great patterns today so here are some more links for you.

Witch on a broom

Scaredy Cat

Skull and Candle

Sad Pumpkin

Skull and Wizard

Halloween Word

Witch and Cat on Broom

Bat and Pumpkin

Owls

Halloween doodles to stitch

Vampire and Mummy doodles

Yea for even more fun stitching!

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Here is another one by Tammy

Halloween Pattern Set by Lazy May

I Got A Treasury!

I finally was able to create a treasury on etsy!  I have been featured in one once before, but I was never able to create one.  The theme is acorns because fall is just a couple days away!

Acorn Treasury

I hope you find something you like from these awesome sellers.  Happy Shopping!

Interesting Links Today

I have been coming across so many neat things today in my blog reading adventures that I needed to share some with you.

This is a great tutorial from Just Tutes on how to make a shirt pattern.

The Take it Further Challenge looks intriguing (I think I might follow along...).  There are 294 people documenting their progress!  Check out how Little Works of Art is interpreting it.