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Golly, it’s been a long time since I offered a free hand embroidery pattern to you all, that isn’t a monogram!
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Today seems as good a day as any to share one of the embroidery patterns I’ve been playing with this year.

This particular pattern was inspired by a design from a very old folio of full-sized ecclesiastical patterns that I was able to buy from a
used bookshop in Belgium.

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You don’t often find full-sized church pattern folios from the late 1800’s-early 1900’s still intact, with all the pages whole and entire,
unused, so this particular folio is one of my favorite treasures.
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Preserving & Printing Large Embroidery Patterns
enter email address To make sure I preserved it a number of ways, I took it to a blueprint printer and had two full sets of prints made of the whole folio,
on vellum. One of these sets, I’ll use. The other, I’ll save.

SUBSCRIBE I also had the pages scanned and saved as full resolution PDFs and TIFFS. That way, I have both electronic and vellum copies of the

designs.

If you ever do come across large, full-sized old pattern books that you want to preserve, take them to a blueprint printing service.
CONNECT WITH MARY You can choose the type of paper you want them on (vellum is an excellent choice for embroidery patterns), and you can have them

      scanned, too, so that you can save them electronically.

Embroidery Ideas
Back to the today’s pattern – it’s pretty versatile. You could work it in any surface embroidery techniques, really. Of course,
TYPES OF   goldwork and silk come to mind right away, but whitework, regular surface embroidery with floss in colors, even wool embroidery
HAND
EMBROIDERY for, say, a cushion cover – they’d all work!

For the center, you could embroider a monogram, perhaps. You could even cut out the center, mount the embroidery on mat
PICTURES OF   board, and use it literally as a frame, around a photo or a mirror.
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Use in Church Embroidery
If you are interested in church embroidery, this type of frame is often used to decorate a sacred monogram, like this:
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A Thousand Flowers: An IHS, Alpha & Omega, or a Marian monogram would work well. The IHSP Iabove
N I Tis taken from one of the designs in my Church
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Mary Corbet Patterns e-book. It fits really well!
Available for
Download Now! You can do this pretty easily by printing the patterns (the frame and whatever you’re going to put in the middle of it) at the right size

ratio, then cutting out the inside design, situating it and taping or gluing it in place inside the frame. Then, take it to a photocopier
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and have it enlarged to the size that you want.
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Available for The Fleur-de-lis Frame could also be enlarged quite a bit and used to surround a piece of figure embroidery or a larger symbol. It
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would make a great decoration for a vestment, a pulpit fall, an altar frontal, or a banner. Reduced and stitched very fine, it would
work well on a pall or other small linens.
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Embroidery
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Twelve Trees for Here’s the PDF printable for the Fleur-de-lis Frame. The design will print at about 7.75″ square, if you choose the “no scaling” or
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Will Ewe Bee Mine? Don’t feel limited to using the design for embroidery! If you’re into paper crafts, painting, and the like, it’ll translate pretty well into
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other craft mediums, too.
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You can find lots more free hand embroidery patterns right here on Needle ‘n Thread, if you’re looking for something fun
to stitch! If you are interested in church embroidery, check out my Church Patterns e-book, which has over 120 ecclesiastical
designs that have been straightened and cleaned up into clear line drawings that can be enlarged or reduced as you need them.

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BARBARA LA BELLE November 24, 2014 at 9:00 am 1

Hi Mary,

I am curious how you find such wonderful treasures. Did you just google “church patterns” and come across this
bookstore? Or is it more complicated. Perhaps you could do a small article on finding/searching for old patterns etc.
My personal interest is old sewing etuis, baskets, sewing purses, etc.
Thanks,

Barbara La Belle

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LOUISE DESMARAIS November 24, 2014 at 9:18 am 2

Thank you for your always interesting postings.

You talk about blue print printing… Does that make a copy you can transfer with a hot iron?

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MARY CORBET November 24, 2014 at 9:34 am

No, it’s blueprint – as in, blueprints for houses, etc. Blueprint printers print large format documents, and

they print on vellum if you want it on vellum.

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