Stitch Up Some Ice Cream that Won’t Melt

Looking for something cool to stitch for summer? Why not make an ice cream treat that won’t melt in the summer sun. Looking for DMC Threads Check out DMC’s website

Here are some fun free cross stitch patterns for ice cream. Enjoy!

Check out these Free Icecream sundae on DMC and this Fun Rainbow icecream pattern

About.com Needlepoint has a fun chart for a swirly ice cream cone, which you can work in different colors to represent different flavors.

Jessica Tromp has a great collection of ice cream treats in bowls and cones, as well as some candy and fun, fruity beverages for summer as well.

There’s another sweet collection of ice cream in cones and on sticks at El blog de DMC. It’s possible this is available in English somewhere (this site is in Spanish), but you don’t really need words to understand the charts.

This Strawberry Ice Cream and flan chart from Kandi Patterns is actually for making with Perler beads, but it works for cross stitch, too. So does the ice cream friendship bracelet pattern from Bracelet Book.

And while this one is not free, isn’t the ice cream drips cross stitch pattern from Daily Cross Stitch adorable?

The cross stitcher behind the blog Sirious Stitches is quite into biscornu.

If you’re not, a quick primer: biscornu are three-dimensional cross-stitched objects with eight points, often with an indention in the middle that makes them look a bit like doughnuts without the hole. They can be just about any size and subject you can think of. They’re often used as pincushions but can also be seasonal decor or just decoration for any time of year.

I’ve got a collection of biscornu cross stitch patterns here.

Once you’ve stitched one or several (they are a little addicting) you might wonder what you can add to them to make them even more extra.

It very much depends on the design of your biscornu and the look you are going for, but Sirious Stitches has a great post all about some of the options you might consider.

I don’t want to give you the whole list because you need to go visit and see all of their great biscornu they’ve stitched, but one really easy thing that you can do with a lot of designs is take advantage of that center indent by adding a button, beads, silk flower or another embellishment.

This is great to do just with a basic button from your stash that coordinates with the design and colors of the cross stitching, but it’s extra fun if you have a button that’s on theme, such as a leaf for a fall biscornu or a flower shaped button for a floral design. Add a jingle bell to a Christmas pattern, or a charm if you don’t have a button that coordinates.

Just this one idea is sure to get you thinking about ways to embellish biscornu (not to mention other cross stitch projects) but head over to Sirious Stitches to see all of their ideas for embellishing biscornu to make these already fun projects even more fun.

Have you ever made biscornu? I’d love to hear about it!

[Photo: Sirious Stitches]

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