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Happy Saturday! This morning, a free pattern to add to the collection of hand embroidery patterns here on Needle 'n Thread! This one is a highly formal, stylized thistle. I love thistles in hand embroidery - there are so many ways they can be embroidered! I've seen puffy, hairy thistles, worke

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This little thistle was part of a recent commission. It is in a slightly heraldic style with long and short leaves and flower head with extra straight stitches for all the spikes. All worked in stranded cotton. It looks shiny as the lengths are kept very short for working. Frustrating as you only do a few stitches of each colour but vital to keep a good sheen on the thread. Thistle stitched in long and short with stranded cotton on silk dupion.

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I was going to do a rather straightforward post on the shamrock for St. Patrick’s Day, but it turns out that there is nothing straightforward about this plant, but rather an age-old confusion about what it actually is/was. The history of the shamrock and its association with Ireland is misty and murky: if indeed St. …

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