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?

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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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