The outer edge all around will be hemstitched. I’m going to use Hungarian braided chain stitch, Alba Maxima linen, and I haven’t decided on the thread yet. I’m thinking a sort of short table runner, with the design at each end, like this: Guess what? I’m actually going to stitch this design. To reduce the design size, just change the scale or percentage in your print settings before you print the PDF. For example, if you want the design 16″ long, take it to a copy center where they print on paper that size and have them enlarge the design for you. You can enlarge this easily by having it photocopied. If you choose “no scale” on your printer when you print the PDF, they should print at 10″ long. You may wish to enlarge or reduce the embroidery patterns as they are given in the PDF. Hungarian Redwork Embroidery: Fine Lines (PDF) Enlarging / Reducing the Embroidery Pattern This is the lighter-lined version of the design, in case you want to stitch it in finer line stitches. Hungarian Redwork Embroidery Pattern: Heavy Lines (PDF) Here’s the PDF for the heavy-lined version: If you want to go with heavy, wide lines to work the pattern in embroidery, you could trace the outside extremity of the heavy lines. I’ve re-drawn the design in a vector format, to make printing and transferring the design easier. Instead, she relies on scrolly and wiggly lines for the majority of the design. Lilly’s design above is not as “folky” in this way, though you will see the heart motif subtly repeated here and there in the design. Normally, chickens, roosters, hearts, tulips and other flowers – typical “folk” elements in design – populate the redwork. This particular “redwork” design is not quite the same as the folky designs you might see with this type of Hungarian embroidery. It was drawn by Lilly Baróthi Zathureczky, and is part of “Lilly’s Legacy.” If you’d like to read the back story of Lilly’s Legacy, you’ll find it here, with the first Hungarian embroidery pattern in the series. You can click on it to see a larger version. Free Hand Embroidery Pattern from Lilly’s Legacy And that might not go over so well with everyone, I suppose! So with today’s hand embroidery pattern, I’ve worked it so that you have two options – you can go with thicker, heavier lines, or with finer lines. And I like that a lot.Īt the same time, it’s rather thick and heavy. I like the simplicity of this type of embroidery. It’s not just the red, though, that grabs me. The thread used is cotton, and the red – it’s really red! And maybe that’s why I like this embroidery. I’m calling it Hungarian redwork, because really, that’s what it is – it is often all-red embroidery, worked heavily in a combination of buttonhole stitch, a kind of closely worked open chain stitch, some satin stitch, and sometimes other stitches, too. My favorite type of embroidery from Hungary is a kind of “peasant” embroidery, worked in red, red and blue, or red and black, on heavy, coarse linen. As with many countries that have a needlework heritage, there are many different styles of embroidery in Hungary. From region to region in Hungary, though, different styles of embroidery dominate. When I think of Hungarian embroidery, I generally think of bright, multi-colored embroidery.
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