Free Pattern Friday: Witches Hat

It's Friday, so it's time for another free cross stitch pattern.  We're going to continue with the Halloween theme for awhile, so let's get to today's pick.

I tend to like cutesy rather than scary Halloween patterns.  For me, Halloween is a purely secular holiday, and I don't mind talking about things like witches, ghosts, and vampires because it's all in pure fun for me.  So today's pattern features this cute little black cat hiding underneath a purple witches hat.  This pattern comes from the Sullivans Floss website, so it uses Sullivans floss, but if you would like a DMC/Sullivans conversion chart, there's one available on Cyberstitchers.  

This free cross stitch pattern is available as a zipped file (PDF) from the Autumn Collection at Sullivans Project Central.  

Happy stitching!


If you ever come across one of my posts that contains a chart that breaks copyright law, please email me and let me know right away. In picking and posting my free cross stitch pattern posts, I make every effort to ensure the designs I share are legitimately free charts.

Teton Santa: Progress Update 9.24.14

So one of the things I'm planning on doing for Christmas this year is to make a Christmas ornament for each of my family members.  I finally picked out a Mill Hill kit for everyone on my list, my close family and extended family.

This one is for my uncle, it's a kit called Teton Santa.  It's done on neutral 14 count perforated paper.  This one is much larger than the other kits, so hopefully that won't look too weird when it's done.

So here's the progress:

Hopefully I'll find time with the busy new work schedule to get more of done soon!

Free Pattern Friday: Candy Corn

Here's today's link to a free cross stitch pattern.  I've been thinking a lot about Halloween patterns lately, so I went on the search for some good free ones that I'll be sharing over the next few weeks.  It may still seem like a little early for Halloween but when you're a cross stitcher, I guess you're always thinking ahead.  In fact, maybe these are a little late on the uptake... but hey, there's always next year, right?

Today's pattern features that fundamental element of Halloween: candy.  And one of my favorite non-chocolate candies is candy corn!  So when I came across this design by Susan Aldrich at Cyberstitchers, I just fell in love with it. It should be a pretty quick stitch too, with a stitch size of only 57 x 57.

This super cute free cross stitch pattern is available for download in PDF or two other formats on this website.

Happy stitching!


If you ever come across one of my posts that contains a chart that breaks copyright law, please email me and let me know right away. In picking and posting my free cross stitch pattern posts, I make every effort to ensure the designs I share are legitimately free charts.

Halloween Quaker: New Start 9.15.14

So here's my latest project.  I've been working on lots of Christmas things lately (progress updates to come on those later).  But I've been seeing lots of projects coming out lately in my stitching forum and it's made me want to focus on Halloween instead of Christmas.  Combine that with a cute little Halloween qsnap grime guard I made the other day, and I needed to find a Halloween project.

Unfortunately, since the new job has not actually had a paycheck yet, my budget is REALLY limited right now.  So although my dream Halloween wish list project would probably be Ursula Michaels' Let's Trick or Treat or Lizzie*Kate's Double Flip Boo Club series, I really don't have the money for it at the moment.

So I went searching for a free Halloween pattern, and come across a Quaker style Halloween sampler that I liked.  Which is weird for me, because I normally don't like that style of projects, so I've never done a Quaker before.  But something about this pattern drew me.  I didn't like a few of the elements, so I modified it a bit and made it my own, and adjusted the colors a bit, and now I've got something I'm really excited about.

Here's the progress so far:

Not really sure why I decided to start in the lower left corner, but hey. That spider is one of my least favorite elements (I hate spiders!) so maybe I was just trying to get it over with. But I think it will look great once the whole thing is done.

Free Pattern Friday: Stardust Fairy

I'd like to start a (hopefully) regular feature on here to post for Fridays.  Cross stitch patterns can be expensive, but there's a lot of great free patterns out there too.  So I'd like to share some of the ones I come across with all of you.

So here's the first free cross stitch pattern of the blog! I thought I'd start out with this new offering by one of my favorite designers, Joan Elliott.  If you like fantasy themed cross stitch, you should definitely check out more of her stuff.  There's a link to her Wordpress in the sidebar of the blog if you're interested.

This is called Stardust Fairy and was recently posted as a free design by DMC.  Head over to their website to download the PDF chart for this free cross stitch pattern.

Happy stitching!


If you ever come across one of my posts that contains a chart that breaks copyright law, please email me and let me know right away. In picking and posting my free cross stitch pattern posts, I make every effort to ensure the designs I share are legitimately free charts.

Never Forget

Welcome!

Welcome to Brownie's Chair!  So what is this?  Glad you asked.

I've been blogging for 8 years about books over on my other blog, The Shady Glade.  In addition to reading, one of my favorite pastimes is cross stitch.  So naturally after getting back into the hobby a few months ago, one thing led to another and I've decided it's time to start a blog to share my other love.

So this blog will be a way to keep track of progress updated, my thoughts on cross stitch topics, advice to new stitchers, notices about free patterns, etc.  It's a work in progress, but I hope you enjoy the journey with me!

Feel free to email me if you have any thoughts or suggestions about the blog at brownieschair (AT) mail (DOT) com.