Free pattern at Patreon site

 

I'm starting to get my old free patterns up at my Patreon site so here's  the link to the pattern. This angel pattern is one of the first I ever put on my web site back in 1995. It's pretty simple to make and there's wood beads with faces painted on them if you search. 

This is not a pdf since the original was written on a computer with win 3.1 (Yikes!) So I just copied and pasted the directions from the old tripod site where I had it. The original pattern is saved on a small floppy disk! I still have an old win 98 that can open them but it's in storage so I was lucky to have saved all the files from tripod. 

Look for more to come.

Yet another AI scam, on tatting this time

I just came across another mess of an AI design. This youtube video shows the cover of a book on tatting with bobbin lace on the cover. Is this crazy? This is worth watching if you worry about buying junk AI generated patterns.

 Karen Bovard-Sayre

I was on Etsy and came across an embroidery pattern I really liked and it was 60% off for black Friday so I thought for $2 why not get it. ( Yes I do buy patterns. It's a great way to learn and see how others do their pattern directions) I'm so glad I looked at all the photos they posted because I could see that the finished design was a little different from the pattern. Odd that they'd put the actual line drawn pattern in a photo to look at. That made me wonder about it so I enlarged the photo of the finished piece and guess what was obvious then. The embroidery floated on the fabric. The french knots were almost identical and the tiny stars had no stitch lines. WOW! If you knew how to embroider it was stitchable so I'm not going to out them.

I spend months designing and stitching my embroideries along with my tatting, crochet, and doll patterns. I don't even use AI for ideas because I have so many of my own. I work with pencils, rulers, curves, and paper for my designs. I use my old win xp computer with an old version of Paint Shop Pro to edit and clean up drawings. Then I do all the patterns in n old MS Publisher. Why this old computer and programs? I like them! I do have a newer laptop for online stuff so I use a lot of flash drive to move files from one computer to the other. I'm thinking I should update my info at Etsy with this.

I'll keep posting whenever I find any more info on AI patterns.

Last of the Bee embroideries

 

Here it is, the last free embroidery pattern of the year. Bee Good seemed just right for the holiday season.

I used the same stitches and the same DMC thread colors as I used for the last one. Something I should say is that these flowers have 4 petals and all the others I've done have 5. Do what makes you happy!

Here's the pattern:

Right click the pattern to save it to your hard drive so you can print it.

©Billie Jo Heisler 2024

All rights reserved

 Disclaimer:

I drew this entire pattern by hand. It is not a copy of anyone else's work. Please consider the drawing copyrighted. You have my permission to print copies of the drawing in any size for your own use but not to share or sell. If you want to share the pattern please link to the blog pages.

Free tatted earring pat

I put a PDF for this earring pattern at my Patreon site: Creative Stitches

It's free! There's this white version and a black version. This is one of the patterns I cut from the new book of tatted jewelry I'm working on. It's almost done but now the holidays may keep it till sometime in January before it's done.