Bring the joy of winter holidays into your home with this free nail embroidery pattern! This is a great way to welcome the dark season with light and bright colors and stitches.
The solid leafy appearance may look complicated at first, but it is simply simple stitching. All you have to do is to do a few stitches in the color mix as described in the pattern. Of course, you can fill the page in any other way or keep it open as an outline.
When you're finished, show off your embroidery for all winter or give it as a gift to celebrate this time of year.
Gather your favorite supplies and sew ready!
Winter Wishes Holly Pattern and Materials
Supplies
• White linen or your favorite embroidery fabric
• Embroidery floss: DMC 165, 959, 992, 964, 3766, 807, 3839, and 350.
• 6-inch embroidery hoop
Tools
• Embroidery needle
• Transfer pen or another transfer tool
• Scissors
Pattern
Download the JPG Pattern for Winter Wishes. When a landscape is placed on a surface and printed at 100%, the pattern should be in the 6 inch embroidery gap. However, you can resize it if you want.
Identify the pattern of your fabric using your preferred transfer method.
Stitch the Outlines
Put your identified fabric in an embroidery hug, stretch the fabric so it pulls.
Use three-strut embroidered floss throughout the entire project.
Work with blue and green shades, stitch holly leaf outlines with back stitching. Sew the center line of each holly leaf with chain stitch. Embroider the berries by sewing the back of the red.
Fill in the Holly With Shading
You can keep the holly leaves open but they are also good to fill in some.
To create this impressionist painting look on your embroidery, use a mix of colors that match the exterior of the leaf with a few more shades. For example, dark teal leaves have three shades of teal, plus lime green and lilac as highlights and shades.
Use stretch stitches of different lengths that come out of the center of the leaf. No need to touch the stitches but if they do, that's fine. Allow the colors to overlap a bit so that they blend in like a paint stroke.
To retain the artistic style in the berries, add some simple stitching as a fill.
Stitch the Text
To embroider the text, stitch the single outline on all the letters with back stitch.
In the second part of the "W" double line, embroider with chain stitch to finish the thickest part of the letter.
Finishing the Winter Wishes Embroidery
Remove any pattern markings as needed, then use your finished embroidery however you like.
A piece like this is brilliantly framed in Embroidered hoop and ready to hang on any wall. If you are giving it as a gift, be sure to include a hanging loop!
You can stitch it in the pillow to enjoy it throughout the season. Add some colored fabric around the edges to create the shape you want, then sew a simple envelope-style pillow.
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