Vintage Embroidery Monday & Stitchery Link Party #77

Happy Monday!

It’s now officially fall! It won’t be long until we’re into October and those of you with little ones in your lives might be turning your thoughts to Halloween.

I have a series of adorable vintage Workbasket patterns that I’ve decided are children dressed in their costumes ready for Halloween fun. Last week, I shared this young boy going fishing. I mentioned then that he might be awfully cold trick or treating in that costume unless he lived somewhere warm.

The same is true for this week’s young girl modeling a swimsuit, unless of course, she’s going to an indoor Halloween party.

You could switch up the design to suit the tastes of the little girl you’re stitching her for.

Add a bit of gathered tulle at her waist… she becomes a ballerina. Make the tulle a couple of inches longer and give her a daisy flower crown, she becomes a princess. Stitch a pair wings and she would be transformed into a fairy.

Just thinking about it has me wishing I had a little girl in my life to make her for!

Vintage Workbasket Embroidery Pattern – Young Girl Modeling a Swimsuit
 

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WELCOME TO STITCHERY LINK PARTY #77

For those who are newly subscribed or are visiting for the first time, every Monday I host a link party in which I invite others to share their hand embroidery projects.

If you’ve never linked up to a link party before and would like to join in, I’ve written a quick tutorial on How to Link Up to a Link Party. It provides step-by-step instructions for linking to this party (or any other link party you might like to participate in.)

The rules for the Stitchery Link Party are simple:

1. The project can be anything as long as it includes hand embroidery stitches in some form. Such projects might be but are not limited to redwork, blackwork, goldwork, bluework, (etc), counted cross-stitch, crazy quilting, crewel, silk ribbon, pulled thread, hardanger and sashiko.

These projects do not have to be vintage or vintage inspired. All styles are welcome as long as it’s hand embroidered.

2. Link directly to your blog post, not to your blog home page.

3. If you happen to sell your embroidery or embroidery patterns, feel free to link up to a blog post you’ve written about a project you’re selling, but No direct links to shops or websites selling things.

4. This will be a curated link party. In other words, if a link does not conform to the three simple rules above, it will be removed.

The next three are more requests than rules. They are by no means a requirement to take part in the party:

5. Please link back to the Stitchery Link Party with a text link somewhere in your post. Or if you’d prefer you can use the cool button that our son designed for me.

Simply copy and paste the code you’ll find under the button in my left side bar. You can add it to your post or to the sidebar of your blog.

6. As well, please share the love and visit one or two (or more) of the other links and take time to leave a comment.

7. It would be wonderful if you decided to follow me but it’s not necessary in order to take part in the link party.

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