Archive Category: 'Embroidery'

• Vintage Puppies Cross Stitch & Embroidery Pattern – Tuesday: Here is this week’s embroidery pattern freebie for the Days of the Week dish towels (each day depicts a daily chore). Today’s pattern is Puppy Tuesday. Puppy is looking up at an iron and it looks like a comb (?) in his hand. Cute stuff! You can download Tuesday’s pattern here. If you missed the first pattern [...]
• Embroidery Tips: Beginnings & Finishings: When starting embroidery, make a few small running stitches along the line to be embroidered, then make one back stitch. (No knots should appear on the wrong side of work.) When the thread becomes too short, acquires a fuzz or untwists, finish it off as follows: Draw thread to wrong side of work, weave needle in and [...]
• Vintage Puppies DOW Cross Stitch & Embroidery Pattern: Here’s the latest set of Days of the Week (DOW) free vintage embroidery and cross stitch patterns. If you’re new to this feature, I share one pattern from the set each week. This latest set is a cute puppy pattern series from Laura Wheeler circa 1960s (I believe), each day features a puppy doing a daily [...]
• Flour Sack Tea Towel Tips: Here’s a small collection of tips for making flour sack tea towels: Adding ric rack across the bottom of the towels is so Very pretty! Add a sweet crochet border to the tea towels Say Good-bye to Stains by Adding Fabric Trim How To Make Flour Sack Dish Towels: Here’s a handy How-To: Flour Sack Dish Towels. Remembering The Flour Sack: The [...]
• Complete Embroidery Pattern Series – Gingham Fruit: Here’s a handy list of all the patterns for the Gingham Fruit series all on one page. Nice and neat for your bookmarks and sharing with friends. You’ll find the instructions and details for this series on the first pattern (Monday’s Pears), found here. Gingham Fruit Vintage Embroidery Pattern Series Monday Pears Tuesday Cherries Wednesday Apples Thursday Strawberries Friday Grapes Saturday Peaches Sunday Plums Tips [...]
• Gingham Fruit Cross Stitch & Embroidery Pattern – Sunday: Here is this week’s free vintage cross stitch & embroidery pattern – Gingham Sunday Plums. This is the last pattern in the series and I hope you enjoy them as much as I do. This will be the last free pattern set for the year, but hang on because I’ll start a new free series in [...]
• Gingham Fruit Cross Stitch & Embroidery Pattern – Saturday: Here is this week’s free vintage cross stitch & embroidery pattern – Gingham Saturday Peaches. I think, lol. These could also be nectarines, but I’ll go with peaches. You can download the pattern here: Saturday’s Gingham Peaches. Printing tips: Uncheck your printer’s equivalent to “Print to Page” and “Maintain Aspect Ratio” so that the pattern stays true [...]
• Gingham Fruit Cross Stitch & Embroidery Pattern – Friday: The free pattern this week for the vintage gingham fruit series is Friday’s Grapes. It’s a lovely design with a full grape bunch including a bit of leaves and vine. You can download your free copy here: Gingham Pattern – Friday Grape Bunch. If you missed it, the beginning of this pattern download set started here: Gingham [...]
• Gingham Fruit Cross Stitch & Embroidery Pattern – Thursday: This week’s free pattern is a cute set of Gingham Strawberries. I love the shape of the strawberries and the simple design. You can download the pattern here: Gingham Pattern – Thursday Strawberries. If you’re new to Tipnut and the free embroidery series, you’ll find the beginning of this set here (we started with Monday): Gingham Fruit [...]
• Gingham Fruit Cross Stitch & Embroidery Pattern – Wednesday: Here’s this week’s free vintage cross stitch & embroidery pattern, it’s Gingham Apples (and they’re very sweet!). You can download the pattern here: Gingham Wednesday Apples. If you’re new to Tipnut, you’ll find the beginning of this set here (we started with Monday): Gingham Fruit Cross Stitch & Embroidery. Printing tips reminder: Uncheck your printer’s equivalent to “Print [...]
• Gingham Fruit Cross Stitch & Embroidery Pattern – Tuesday: Here’s this week’s free vintage cross stitch & embroidery pattern – Tuesday Cherries. Download the file here: Tuesday’s Gingham Cherries. There’s a fold line running through the cherries that is not part of the pattern, just in case you wondered. There should just be the three solid lines as part of the pattern. You’ll find the details [...]
• Gingham Fruit Cross Stitch & Embroidery – Vintage Pattern: Here’s the beginning of a new embroidery (and cross stitch) pattern set you can download for free on Tipnut (one pattern will be available each week). This is a cross stitch & embroidery transfer pattern set (another Days of the Week) from the 1940s or 1950s. It’s one of my favorites since the designs are [...]
• Complete Embroidery Pattern Series – Kitten Towels Set: I normally only post once on Saturday’s but I thought it would be nice to have one place listing the entire Kitten Towels Embroidery Set that I’ve been uploading for you these past few weeks. Handy for your bookmarks and for sharing . Monday’s Kittens Tuesday’s Kittens Wednesday’s Kittens Thursday’s Kittens Friday’s Kittens Saturday’s Kittens Sunday’s Kittens The pattern set details and [...]
• Free Vintage Embroidery Pattern – Kitten Towels #7: Here’s this week’s free embroidery pattern in the series started with Free Vintage Embroidery Pattern – Kitten Towels. You’ll find the details and pattern instructions on that page. Today’s Pattern is “Sunday Kittens” and you can see them at their leisurely best on this day of rest. There is however a bird in a cage that [...]
• Free Vintage Embroidery Pattern – Kitten Towels #6: Here’s this week’s free embroidery pattern in the series started with Free Vintage Embroidery Pattern – Kitten Towels. You’ll find the details and pattern instructions on that page. Today’s Pattern is “Saturday Kittens” and they’re busy baking a cake–very cute . You can download the pattern here: Kitten Towels – Saturday. Please remember to first [...]
• Free Vintage Embroidery Pattern – Kitten Towels #5: Here’s the latest in the series started with Free Vintage Embroidery Pattern – Kitten Towels. Visit that page to find the details and pattern instructions. Today it’s Friday’s Kittens and they’re working hard mopping up the floor. Download the pattern: Kitten Towel Set – Friday. Please remember to first download the pattern to your computer by right [...]
• Free Vintage Embroidery Pattern – Kitten Towels #4: Here’s this week’s free embroidery pattern for the vintage Kitten Towel set mentioned here. Pattern instructions are found on that page, you can print them off for your files if you like. This week’s a cute one with two kittens carrying a basket full of food items. You can download the pattern by clicking this link: Thursday’s [...]
• Free Vintage Embroidery Pattern – Kitten Towels #3: Here is this week’s embroidery pattern for the Free Vintage Embroidery Pattern – Kitten Towels Set started a couple weeks ago. You’ll find the details and instructions on the page listed above. To download this week’s pattern, Wednesday’s Kittens – click here. If you need help with transferring the pattern, you’ll find help here: Embroidery Pattern Transfer [...]
• Free Vintage Embroidery Pattern – Kitten Towels #2: Here is this week’s vintage embroidery pattern from the set started last week: Free Vintage Embroidery Pattern – Kitten Towels. It’s from the 7 Motifs For Day-Of-The-Week Towels set by Superior Transfer Design. You’ll find stitch and pattern instructions detailed in the page above. You can download this week’s pattern here: Tuesday Kittens Embroidery Pattern. Please [...]
• Free Vintage Embroidery Pattern – Kitten Towels: Here’s a treat for embroidery fans – This vintage pattern comes with seven different designs, one for each day of the week. I’ll post a freebie from this set one day each week that you’re welcome to save and print for your collection. This is a sweet set–kittens! Here are the full set of instructions directly [...]
• Embroidery Pattern Transfer Tips – Vintage Notes: How to Apply a Multi-Transfer Design Pin a cloth tightly over ironing board to protect it in case transfer ink penetrates fabric. Smooth the fabric on ironing board. Cut out transfer, allowing enough paper for pinning. Pin transfer in place, face down. With iron between “Wool” and “Cotton” heat, apply iron gently but firmly for 2 to 3 seconds. If [...]
• Crochet & Needlework Tips: Photocopy the pattern page and insert into a plastic sheet protector. No more ratty patterns! Store threads and yarn in ziploc bags when travelling or picking up while your waiting during errands and appointments. You can open a corner of the bag to let the thread through when your doing your needlework. This helps keep your [...]