If you are looking for other vintage letter sets, be sure to check out our sister site Reusable Art where we have a collection of Public Domain Letter sets and individual Fancy Letters. If you were to embroider them, be sure to put the swirling tails under the surrounding letters or even overlap flourishes to create a more flowing and less blocky appearance. This book has a lot of art nouveau style monogram designs in it that I can’t wait to try out. Embrilliance offers three different free embroidery fonts in BX format: Almost Fancy, Textured and Blockish. You can use whatever outline stitch you would like. All of the letters are designed on a graph, which makes it easier to stitch in a variety of different styles. 5, 6, 7 Almost Famous, Textured and Blockish from Embrilliance. The best place to start on a floral embroidery letter is outlining the letter. In order to not have to shrink them to fit in my page design, I split them up into their individual letters. These scans are perfect for whitework embroidery, cross stitch, or surface embroidery. The book in which this vintage Christmas embroidery pattern appeared listed all of the letters in rows of two with four letters across. (If you want to share what you come up with, please drop me a note and I’ll update this post and link back to your site.) (She was going to stitch me NOEL, but that’s another story. Mom stitched up this letter to show just how lovely this pattern looks when stitched. Speaking of the letter N, just check out how pretty this Christmas cross stitch pattern turns out. To create a Y design, my suggestion would be to use the top half of the X and maybe part of the N or design my own stem and bottom. I have no idea why the designer also left out a Y since so that precludes wishing someone Merry Christmas with this set. To create an I, I would suggest taking one of the up and down sections of the letter N or M and adding some flourishes based on how the other holiday letters were designed. However, I think the included I embroidery design would work better as a J. In the case of these Christmas embroidery patterns, it would appear that they did not include the letter J – the one most common left out of these sets. Even though that practice is said to have ended in the 1500s, many vintage alphabet sets failed to include both letters. A fun and relatively simple embroidery project that is great for gifting are alphabet floral embroidery letters. The letters I and J were once used interchangeably. Unfortunately, the original designer of this vintage Christmas embroidery pattern left out the letters J and Y. The set features red and green letters adorned with holly leaves and berries. Originally designed for cross stitch, they could easily be adapted for most of the embroidery forms. Cheri Alphabet The biggest of the free-range at Bunnycup, this font stands at 2 inches. The perfect font for adding a floral touch to your project. Just in time for Christmas, I found this vintage Christmas embroidery alphabet pattern. Flores Alphabet A little bigger at 1.2 inches tall, the Flores Alphabet is made up of block capitals and numbers.
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