SUPPLIES & TOOLS:
- Felt, Whit
- Felt, Ivory
- Felt, Dusty Blue
- Felt, Light Blue
- Felt, Light Gray
- Embroidery Floss, in Coordinating Colors
- 20" x 1/2" Elastic
- Scissors
- Embroidery Needle
- Pattern Templates A, B, C, D, and E
DIRECTIONS:
To print the templates, click on the "GET PATTERNS" tab above.- Cut 2 of template A (dusty blue felt), two of template B (one white felt and one ivory felt), one of templates C (white felt), D (light blue felt), and two of template E (light grey felt and white felt). Choose any colors you prefer; these are just the ones in the image of the bookmark.
- To achieve the look of the bookmark pictured, trim down all side of the ivory hexagon (Template B), so that it sits on top of the white one with the white edges showing on all sides. Begin by centering the white circle (template E) to the ivory hexagon (template B). Do a straight stitch, aligning with each corner of the hexagon. Bring your needle up inside the edge of the white circle and go back down just inside the corner of the hexagon. Do this for all six corners and follow up with shorter diagonal stiches on either side of each straight line, creating a sort of V shape at the base of each line.
- Next, do Y stiches on either side of the little cluster of straight stitches you've made. To do this, bring your needle up on the ivory hex just along the edge of the white circle. It should be just to the left of the cluster of straight stitches. Go back down in the same place on the right side of the cluster. Don't pull your stitch all the way through. Leave some slack and come up near the center of the white circle, aligned with the center of your straight stitch cluster. Pass it over the slack and back down through the same hole. This short center stitch will anchor the V shape you just made.
- If you'd like to switch colors for the next set of stitches, you can. In the center of the circle, do a French knot. Then do small straight stitches inside the V opening of your Y stitches. In between each cluster of straight stitches that you started with, do a French knot in the center.
- Next you will center the ivory hex over the white hex then place those one top of one of the template A pieces. Here, you will attach this first snowflake to the top of the bookmark. Once you have a placement that you like, bring the needle up in the center of one side of the white hexagon, and complete your straight stitch by going back down through the blue felt. Complete the snowflake with more straight stiches in a V shape at the base of the straight line you just made. Do this for all 6 sides.
- Next, add the white circle (template E) to the bookmark. First determine where you want it to go, then to determine the placement of the stitches, place template D on top, layering them slightly off center. Trace very lightly on the white circle where the blue circle edge overlaps. That light line is where you'll start stitching. Following that curve, do straight stitches by coming up along the line and going back down as close to the outer edge of the white circle as you can. Do this incrementally around the traced curve. Where each of lines meets the edge, do a French knot.
- Layer the blue circle on top of the white circle, covering the start of the stitches. To attach this one to the design, start with two straight stitches from the center to the outer edge, directly across from one another. At a 90-degree angle from those straight stitches, do two lazy daisy stitches across from one another. Finished this little stitch starburst with more straight stitches and French knots.
- At this point you've learned all of the stitch styles to complete the top of the bookmark. Add the small grey circle with more straight stitches and knots. Add starbursts if you'd like to the negative space by clustering straight stitches together.
- Stitch ends of 20" length of elastic together. Center behind embroidered piece. Place second felt piece cut from Template A on back of embroidered piece, sandwiching the elastic between the two felt pieces. Using a blanket stitch, stitch along edge of pieces cut from Template A to finish your design.