Hand Embroidered Ice Cream Cone

 

I have a finished project to share ... this is a chocolate chip mint ice cream cone.  This motif is from my Summer hand embroidery pattern set.  

You may remember these other projects from this pattern: 

These projects have such bright colors!  For the ice cream, I wanted to have a cool, refreshing tone.  The mint green of chocolate chip mint ice cream is perfect!  I added some white floss as well:

For the waffle cone, I used a variety of browns:

For the stitches, I outlined the cone with Stem Stitch and then whipped it with white floss.  The inside is filled with random rows of Straight Stitch and Seeding Stitch for the chocolate chips.  

The waffle cone is outlined with Back Stitch and filled with rows of Straight Stitch.  

Here are the floss color numbers I used in this palette:

This was such a quick project, perfect for summer stitching!

Summer Kitchen Towel Part Two

I finished my summer kitchen towel.  If you read the first post about this project, you will see that I made a few changes.   Instead of using the Back Stitch for the sun's rays: 

I used the Pistil Stitch:

Then I added French Knots in a warmer golden yellow floss between each Pistil Stitch.

For the horizontal lines on either side of the sun, I used the Chain Stitch 

I also went with the solid yellow ribbed trim tape, instead of the yellow and black tape. 

I hand stitched the trim tape just above my hem top stitching.  I used yellow sewing thread to Whip Stitch the tape in place:

I have another motif from this set that I am currently embroidering.  When I finish, I will detail it in a future post.

Summer Kitchen Towel Project - Part One

I am making a new kitchen or tea towel.  For the embellishments, I am embroidering this sun motif 

and using some yellow trim tape for the hem:

I have the center of the sun finished.  I used the Stem Stitch for the outside of the circle and Back Stitch to fill it in.  This yellow and white floss is color variations perle cotton from DMC - the number is 4077.  

It matches perfectly with my trim tapes.  

I am looking forward to finishing this project and I will post my progress!

Summer Embroidery Pattern

 I have a new embroidery pattern set available in my Etsy shop!  
This set is called Summer 

and as the title suggests :) is full of summertime themed motifs.

Here is a look at the pattern set: