Are you looking for Halloween cross-stitch patterns? In addition to the cross stitch patterns of ghosts, Artedelricamo has selected for you some cross stitch patterns with Halloween pumpkins useful to decorate every corner of your home. You can embroider linens for the kitchen, for your living room and the bedroom of your children.

On Blogs Blisstree there is a simple cross-stitch pattern with a border of pumpkins to stitch on linen for the kitchen. Continue reading

Do you want to decorate your home linens embroidering ghosts, pumpkins, bats and witches for Halloween? Artedelricamo has selected for you some cross-stitch patterns dedicated to Halloween . You can customize with a needle and colored threads individual placemats, pot holders, aprons, tea towels and pillows.

The patterns are very simple to do so you can also engage and encourage your children to embroider pictures, postcards, gift cards to your friends.

You can also embroider and cross stitch on Aida cloth bags of using the free embroidery patterns proposed below, to be used to offer sweets for Halloween. Continue reading

Are you looking for a free program that allows you to create cross-stitch embroidery patterns? Are you using the Linux operating system? KXStitch is an open source application that allows you to create cross stitch patterns and charts. You can create patterns from scratch on a user defined size of grid, which can be enlarged or reduced in size as your pattern progresses. Continue reading

This quick and easy  embroidery stitch is a variation of chain stitch.  It gives a ladder-like effect, it is also known as Roman chain or square chain stitch, ladder stitch, small writing (when the stitches are narrow) and big writing (when the stitches are wide).

Open chain stitch can be worked to give either an open or closed effect, to do it you can simply adjusting the spacing between parallel lines to make a heavy outline and can couch down cards, narrow embroidery thread or ribbons. Continue reading

  • Bring the thread through at (A) and take a small vertical stitch.
  • Bring the thread through again at (B) and pass the needle under the vertical stitch, without piercing the fabric, and insert it again at (B).
  • Bring the thread through at (C) and again pass the needle under the vertical stitch and insert it at (C).
  • The third and all following stitches are made in exactly the same way, except that the needle always passes under the two preceding loops.