Campers Beware (Friday the 13th Cross Stitch)

My daughter has been telling me for a few days now that it’s almost spooky season, so I guess it’s time to start sharing creepy crafts.

If you’re into the Friday the 13th movie franchise, you will recognize this bloody mask as belonging to Jason Voorhees, ready to welcome new victims, uh, campers to Camp Crystal Lake.

This design is a freebie offered by The Witchy Stitcher and is 90 stitches by 90 stitches, or a little less than 6.5 inches square on 14-count fabric.

Scroll down a bit on her freebies page to find and download the chart.

[Photo: The Witchy Stitcher.]

Looking for more fun Halloween Cross-stitch patterns and charts? Check out these Halloween-themed Cross stitch designs on Etsy.

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A while back I made a little rainbow cross stitch pattern and I wasn’t sure what I wanted to do with it, so I turned it into a patch. My idea was that it could be used on a jacket or backpack, or you could add a pin to the back and wear it temporarily on a shirt or elsewhere.

But what if you want to make your design more permanent? Is it possible to turn a piece of cross stitch into an iron-on design?

It turns out yes, it is, and Sirious Stitches has done it so I didn’t have to try to figure it out on my own.

The way they did it was by using HeatnBond, an iron-on adhesive that attaches fabrics without sewing. There was still sewing involved to finish the edges of the cross stitch fabric and make it look like a purchased patch. The post shows how to do this by hand or with your sewing machine. (I just did blanket stitch edging on mine, which doesn’t look like a “real” patch but is also a lot faster.)

Once you have the patch prepared it’s a pretty easy matter of using the fusible adhesive to the back of the patch so you can then iron it onto whatever jacket, pair of jeans, bag or whatever else you might want to add it to.

I guess I’m a little paranoid about the washability of cross stitch projects, though you could hand wash anything with an iron-on cross stitch patch as you might need to with a purchased iron-on patch, anyway. But this does look really cool and is a great option if you know you want to permanently add a cross stitch patch to a garment of bag.

Get the full tutorial over at Sirious Stitches. Would you add an iron-on cross stitch patch to something? I’d love to hear what you would use this technique for!

[Photo: Sirious Stitches]

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