How you interpret your Christmas palm tree is entirely up to you! I could see it in tropical colors for a bright splash in holiday decor! Christmas Palm Trees – Free Embroidery Patterns I just haven’t had a chance to test stitch them again.īut since there are many, many, many stitchers in the world who live in areas where palm trees are a perfectly natural part of Christmas, and since I think palm trees are pretty cool in general, I thought this little collection of three palm tree patterns that you can stitch and decorate for Christmas would be fun! Since stitching this version, I’ve adjusted the design and added a couple bent palm trees into the mix. Seuss-ish?) Christmas palm tree!Įventually, I’ll play with this one again and get it right! It’s a Christmas palm tree – a very stylized, somewhat whimsical (almost Dr. It didn’t quite make the final cut for Twelve Trees for Christmas. The design is for a tree I played around with but never quite got right. Tying up the whole Twelve Trees for Christmas thing after launching the e-book on December 1st, I wanted to share a free pattern with you today – to say a great big Thanks! to all who purchased Twelve Trees and to give you another to add to your collection! The height of social excitement for me around now is a cup of coffee with a friend or two, a visit to my sister’s house, crochet night once a week…īut then, I do live in Kansas. I don’t venture out to the wider world a whole lot this time of year, except for very special engagements. The second is closely associated: I stay close to home. There’s nothing quite as calming to me as escaping for an hour behind an embroidery hoop! I have two antidotes to the frantic pace of the outlying commercial world that permeates the weeks between Thanksgiving and Christmas in the US: The first one, is, of course, my needle and thread. I love this time of year, but within a very limited sphere of operation. The whole noise of the secular Christmas season is not really my thing. I hope you’ve been able to relax a little bit this season, that you haven’t been running about frantic during the pre-Christmas rush, or stuck in among crowds of people – unless that’s your Thing and that’s the way you like it! If you haven’t joined in, do it now! The give-away ends Friday morning, when the next giveaway is posted.Happy Friday – and only 10 days until Christmas! Twelve Trees for Christmas is also still available, if you’re looking for Christmas stitching ideas with full instructions and patterns.ĭon’t forget that A Stitcher’s Christmas started on Monday, with this gorgeous book give-away. I’ll share that with you as I get closer to being finished! The e-book for A Thousand Flowers is still available here, if you’re wanting to join in on stitching any of those! I started stitching a new version (the deer) yesterday, with plans for a really fun finishing technique. I’ll keep you abreast of that and share the pattern alternative, in case anyone else wants to stitch it, too! I’ll be stitching up a new version of it, starting this afternoon if all goes as planned. I’ve been dabbling with the Boughs of Holly corner design in the list above. Large Snowflake – Cross stitch or other counted work, this one would look great with beads!ĭelicate Snowflake – for surface embroidery, with several variationsīold Snowflake – a less delicate snowflake for surface embroideryīlackwork Trees – three blackwork trees, great for a counted borderĪ Christmas Tree for Tambour Embroidery – great for tambour work, but can be stitched with any line stitch. Snowflake Corner – Cross stitch folk-style snowflakes in a corner design Leaping Deer & Christmas Tree – a counted cross stitch pattern in a traditional folky styleĪ Simple Snowflake – Cross stitch snowflake, folk style Stitched from Stash Christmas Ornament – a step-by-step series, including finishing instructions. Holly & Joy – A Christmas message with embroidered lettersĪ Tiny Tree with a Bird – just add a pear, and it can pass for a partridge in a pear tree! It’s a spin off of a Quaker motif. Some of them might take a little longer, but all of them are doable well before Christmas arrives!Ī Christmas Palm Tree – for those of you in southerly climes!īoughs of Holly – a holly corner suitable for tablecloths, flour sack towels, cloth napkins, and so forth I always underestimate the time it will take to complete an embroidery project, but in fact, most of these projects I’m going to list here can be completed in a good bout of weekend binge-stitching. Since we’ve kicked off A Stitcher’s Christmas, and since it’s not quite December yet (so there’s still time!), I figure today is a good day for a round-up of free Christmas embroidery designs here on Needle ‘n Thread, for those who want to do a little holiday stitching!
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