Everyone is all of a sudden wearing green, drinking beers, and talking about leprechauns – that’s right St. Patrick’s Day is coming! And we have just the St. Patrick’s Day craft for you if you love celebrating the holiday but maybe aren’t exactly….Irish. We all like celebrating the holiday, even if your roots aren’t exactly located in Ireland. Embrace it with this St. Paddy’s Day free embroidery pattern that shows off your pride.
This adorable free embroidery pattern makes the perfect simple St. Patrick’s Day wall art for your party! The best part is that it’s so easy and quick to make, you can throw this together the night before and hang it up just in time to celebrate. Take a look at the steps below and get started!
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St. Patrick’s Day Embroidery Art Tutorial
Supplies:
- 7-inch embroidery hoop
- White cotton
- Fabric markers (in green and black) – We love Tulip Fabric Markers
- Green felt
- Heart die – We use Sizzix Framelits Die Set
- Sizzix
- Needle and thread
- Hot glue and glue gun
- Green jumbo ricrac
- Tacky glue – We use Aleen’s
- Free printable pattern – download now!
Instructions
- Put your pattern sheet under the cotton and trace the words with your fabric pens. Make dashed lines to trace to look like stitching. Iron away any wrinkles before adding to the hoop.
- Add your cotton to the embroidery hoop and stretch to fit. Trim the back with scissors. Go over the writing multiple times with the markers to get the look your desire.
- Cut four hearts from felt with the die and your Sizzix. Use a needle and thread to gather up the hearts as shown below.
Note: The Sizzix and dies makes this super easy, but if you don’t have those things handy, just trace hearts on the felt and cut them out by hand.
- Pull the thread through and make the hearts look like a shamrock. Cut a stem from the felt as well. Add the stem with the needle and thread.
- Knot off the thread on the shamrock and either sew or glue into place on the hoop.
- Use tacky glue to adhere jumbo ricrac all the way around the outer edge of the hoop. I used clothes pins to hold into place while the glue dried. The extra width on the ricrac should hang over the front of your hoop art.
- Once dry, add a second row of ricrac with the tacky glue. Again hold with clothespins until dry.
- Cut two more hearts as well as a small rectangle from the felt.
- Use hot glue to secure together in a bow shape.
- Add to the top of your hoop with hot glue.
Ta-da! And you’re done. Your adorable St. Paddy’s Day wall art is ready to be hung up right by the snack table. This embroidery hoop project will work with any phrase as long as it fits! Just write out your favorite saying in a document, print it, and repeat these steps. You can even make multiple since there’s no embroidery required!
