Christmas Embroidery Ideas

• Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer

I stitched a bunch of these Rudolphs many years ago. I attached them to some felt, made them into little decorative hangings and gave them to my friends as gifts. Here is a link to the website where I found the Rudolph to trace - it's actually a website for printable coloring book pages, and I think they make great embroidery patterns also.

• Winter Woven Trees

Stitch this winter-themed project I posted on Feeling Stitchy last year. The trees are woven trellis stitch and if you don't know that stitch, you can learn it here.

• Couched Candy Canes

I recently posted about these cute little couched candy canes and had to include them in this list. They could be stitched on anything - you could make them different sizes with different types of thread!

• Needle Weave Plaid

And finally, a tutorial I posted on Feeling Stitchy on how to needle weave plaid. The colors remind me of Christmas :)

Happy Holiday Stitching!

Mini Couched Candy Canes

Here is a really easy holiday embroidery project - couched candy canes!

I created these with DMC embroidery thread using all six strands.

If you need to learn the couching stitch, check out this great video tutorial from Needle n Thread.

I free hand drew little canes with a water soluble pen.

I started with red as the foundation thread and white as my working thread - or my "stripes" of the candy cane.

Continue couching white stripes and then bring your red thread through the fabric to finish the cane.

My second candy cane is white with red stripes.

I drew some more  - but then decided on stopping at three candy canes :)

I rinsed the ink off my fabric and let dry.

To show you how small these candy canes are - here is a dime for size comparison.

A simple little embroidery design for the holidays! If you try this out, comment below!