Free Designs for Embroidery from The Antique Pattern Library

These lovely designs are from the book The Drew Portfolio in the Antique Pattern Library

For fabric painting, epoxy painting, stump work

Spanish Black work

IDEAL FOR LAID WORK

For Applique and Embellishment with Beads etc.

The entire book -  about 18 pages is filled with such designs.

There are no stitch descriptions - all the better. It would be interesting to see how different people interpret these designs. 

Anyone out there ready for the challenge?

Here's what you should do.

1. Choose any one of the 4 designs above - you may choose more than 1 design if you have the time for it.
2. While the basic design should be retained,  slight variations are allowed.
3. Use it to design an accessory - say cushion cover, a runner, a bag, a purse...
4. You can use anything for embellishing the embroidery - ribbons, beads, buttons, shells...
5. You have a month - the challenge ends on 3rd March.
6. You can blog the steps involved and the decision making process if you wish.

The challenge will be open even if there is going to be only 1 participant.

If you want to take it up, leave a comment .

This is not a competition - as I've already mentioned, it would be interesting to see all the variations diffferent people come up with.

Update: The link to the book is broken.  I'll update it when I rediscover it.

DMC Motifs For Embroidery Vth Series

DMC Motifs for Embroidery Vth Series is a book you'll find on 'Free Domain' - meaning - you can download it for free.
This post is a brief review of this lovely book.
Before I procede, please understand that though these books are copyright freed, they come from the private collection of generous people who have taken the time to painstaking scan and edit and digitize these books. The aim of The Antique Pattern Library is to make these books freely available so the wonderful art of needlework does not die.
What I am trying to say here is don't be crude enough to download and sell these on e-bay etc or pass them off as your own designs. It has happened before and will happen again... just let it not be you who is doing it.

Here are a few designs from the book - to help you decide if or not you want to download it.

As you can see, the designs are simple but the stitches employed gives them an exotic look.

What you will find:
1. A description of all the stitches used with diagrams.
2. 15 colour plates
3. The designs for tracing

The design on the left is my favourite - I just can't stop appreciating how the simple can also be exotic