Breast Cancer Awareness – Free Patterns from the Blog-o-Sphere

Posted by admin on Friday, October 7, 2011

Many of you have been requesting more Stitch Pink patterns to stitch for Breast Cancer Awareness.

In addition to the wonderful patterns given here on the DMC blog site, including the ribbon, pink flower, pink bird and the crown, there are other patterns you may wish to stitch.

Check out the pretty pink ribbon with a yellow rose designed by M. Schier and featured on the crosstitch.com site, or the Angel Ribbon from Little MoJo.

Quilters can stitch these free Think Pink and Ribbon Angels quilt blocks, designed and offered by Sindy Rodenmayer over at the FatCat Patterns site.

Applique the designs to the blocks by machine using machine embroidery or quilting threads.

Crocheters can work up these gorgeous pink crochet and beaded earrings designed by Cynthia!

These would look terrific worked in DMC Color Variations Size 5 Pearl Cotton in colors 4180 or 4190!

A complete tutorial for working the stitches over the wire is included on her site.

Happy Stitching!

~Emma

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Breast Cancer Awareness – Free Patterns from the Blog-o-Sphere

Posted by admin on Friday, October 7, 2011

Many of you have been requesting more Stitch Pink patterns to stitch for Breast Cancer Awareness.

In addition to the wonderful patterns given here on the DMC blog site, including the ribbon, pink flower, pink bird and the crown, there are other patterns you may wish to stitch.

Check out the pretty pink ribbon with a yellow rose designed by M. Schier and featured on the crosstitch.com site, or the Angel Ribbon from Little MoJo.

Quilters can stitch these free Think Pink and Ribbon Angels quilt blocks, designed and offered by Sindy Rodenmayer over at the FatCat Patterns site.

Applique the designs to the blocks by machine using machine embroidery or quilting threads.

Crocheters can work up these gorgeous pink crochet and beaded earrings designed by Cynthia!

These would look terrific worked in DMC Color Variations Size 5 Pearl Cotton in colors 4180 or 4190!

A complete tutorial for working the stitches over the wire is included on her site.

Happy Stitching!

~Emma

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Stitch a Ribbon for Cancer

Posted by admin on Friday, September 30, 2011

While we’re not doing a Stitch Pink quilt this year, we are providing patterns to help raise awareness – not just for breast cancer, but other types of cancer as well.

Last week’s pattern featured a pretty bird in pink for breast cancer, and this week we are providing a pattern for an assortment of ribbons. The pattern is available here as a pdf document.

The ribbon colors correspond with the following types of cancer:

Pink – Breast Cancer

Teal – Ovarian Cancer

Pearl  – Lung Cancer

White – Bone Cancer

Brown – Colorectal Cancer

Purple – Pancreatic & Leiomyosarcoma

Orange – Leukemia

Emerald Green – Liver Cancer

Periwinkle – Esophageal and Stomach Cancer

Amber – Appendix Cancer

Black – Melanoma

Dark Blue – Colon Cancer

Burgundy – Multiple Myeloma

Grey – Brain Cancer

Blue – Prostate Cancer

Yellow- Sarcoma/Bone/Bladder Cancer

Gold – Childhood Cancer

Lime – Lymphoma

Peach – Uterine Cancer

Kelly Green – Kidney Cancer

Lavender – All Cancers

Orchid (Violet) – Testicular Cancer

The pattern includes color numbers for working each ribbon in DMC Embroidery Threads, and measures approximately 1.5 x 3 inches when worked on 14-count CharlesCraft Aida fabric.

~Emma

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