The Vintage Trick or Treat halloween stitchery pattern ($25.00) by Crab-apple Hill includes 7 halloween stitchery patterns as well as directions to complete this adorable quilt. Maisie stitched up a sample of the center block for us, which is shown below. The other 6 images include whimsical halloween pails and lanterns as well as the Halloween banner at the top. It is hard to tell from the picture, but the quilt has black rick-rack around the inner border and black ball fringe at the outside edge.

Add a few of your favorite halloween fabrics to customize this to your own tastes. (Visit our Halloween fabrics page to find lots of options.)

Here's an embroidery pattern that is sure to appeal to our many Texas-loving customers whether you live here or have been transplanted to some far-away place. Each block in the quilt features an embroidered outline of Texas along with one of the many symbols of the Lone Star State (bluebonnets, armadillos, longhorns, boots, hats, etc.)

The Stars Across Texas quilt pattern ($13.98) features 12 traceable embroidery or applique patterns along with instructions for the quilt layout pictured.

Kittens Days of the Week
Transfer Pattern by Patterncentral
The adorable kittens can be used to decorate hand towels, quilts, pillows or pot holders or would look great framed individually and displayed as a set. The Kittens Days of the Week Transfer Pattern ($8.98) is an iron-on transfer that is designed to be used up to 20 times. The transfered designs can be hand embroidered, colored with crayons or both!

Vintage Embroidery Pattern Books by Design Originals
If you love the look of vintage hand embroidery, you'll love these vintage embroidery design books from Design Originals. Each book shows a variety of vintage hand embroidered and hand colored textiles and shows you how to turn these classic designs into quilts, pillows, towels and more. Each book is $19.99 and is full of images ready to trace, color with crayons and stitch. (And you thought that coloring quilts with crayons was a new concept! These books show that the technique was actually in use back in the 1920's and 1930's.) But, we think the technique is definitely worth bringing back.

The Wildflower Welcome pattern ($7.98) by Waltzing with Bears is a hand embroidery pattern with multiple stitchery images. One is a Welcome wreath composed of wildflowers and another is a wildflower garden. Use these traceable designs to create wall hangings, pillows or small quilts to decorate almost any room of the house.

The Herbal Expressions pattern ($8.98) by Pearl Louise Designs would make a great kitchen decoration. Just trace the designs, hand-stitch the colorful herbs, add some complimentary fabrics to coordinate with your kitchen and stitch up the simple quilt design. The pattern creates a 17" x 22" wall hanging.

The Desperate House Chicks pattern by Pearl Louise Designs features a desperate house chick for each day of the week, like the "Sunday" chick shown right. The pattern is $7.98.

We also offer a Desperate House Chicks Dishtowels Kit (shown below) which includes 7 dishtowels and the pattern for $27.00.