![]() If you want the holly leaves filled, you could opt for long and short stitch, and shade them a bit (if you’re working in colors), or you could opt for a variety of other filling stitches.Īnd of course, never underestimate the power of the simple seed stitch, especially when working with monograms! Holly and Joy – Free Embroidery Patterns The style of lettering is a little formal, and I think it calls for something a little more structured than the fly stitch holly. The holly? If you want it only outlined, try a stitch like stem stitch (rather than the fly stitch holly leaves we created last week). ![]() Again, it all depends on the look you want, and your skill level. The dots inside the letters? You could use the Rhodes stitch in dots, which we looked at the other day. Satin stitch, of course, is the Ultimately Beautiful Stitch for monograms, but if it is beyond your skill level right now to produce a good satin stitch, then you might opt for filling the outlines of the letters with stem stitch filling or split stitch filling. If you want a lacy, open, light design, you might just outline all the letters and decorative elements of the letters, in a stitch like stem stitch. What you want the finished design to look like and 2. The type of embroidery you use on the individual letters in the design will depend on a couple things: 1. If the holly edges are too “busy” in this version (I think they are a bit busy), you can revert to a simple line border – or no border at all! Embroidering the Letters You can line the letters up vertically, too. There’s no rule that says lettering has to be horizontal. What about changing the orientation of the lettering? Let’s try something a little more decorative:Īdding a stylized holly border works pretty well.Īnd you can flip the direction of the holly, if you want. It all depends on how heavy or decorative you want the outer line.īut then again, you might decide that you want something other than lines around your lettering. For something a little lacier and open, you might try something like Spanish Knotted Feather Stitch, and you could dress that up a bit by adding little beads to the side loops it forms. ![]() Plaited Braid Stitch would look lovely, as would Cable Plait Stitch, or Hungarian Braided Chain Stitch, or even this variety of interlaced chain stitch. The outside, heavier line, you could work in a heavier braid type stitch. You could, for example, embroider the inside, lighter line in a simple chain stitch. There are heaps of ways to interpret lines in embroidery. To block the letters in and kind of “ground” the design, we can add a couple line borders. There they are – and they’re ok as they are, but we can go a little farther if we want. But it’s looking rather lonely (and very large), so let’s put them all together! The letter Y completes our simple word – JOY. ![]() Yesterday, we added the letter O, and today, we’ll finish off with the last letter, a simple decorative border, and some layout options. We started with the letter J in this Holly and Joy design. Day before yesterday, we talked a little bit about developing an embroidery pattern that incorporates monograms into a one-word design. ![]()
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