The free redwork embroidery patterns are a fun way to make a piece of bedding for your bed. The free redwork embroidery patterns can be used for quilts, dish towels, pillows, placemats, and table runners. You will learn about what redwork embroidery is below.
What is Redwork Embroidery?
Redwork embroidery is what is known as using red embroidery thread only for making these designs on fabrics. The redwork embroidery uses a few basic embroidery techniques for outlining the designs.
Most often a muslin fabric is used for embroidering these designs onto. The reason for that is because the muslin is thin enough to see through for tracing the patterns onto the muslin. If you have a lightweight or thin fabric other than muslin, you could use that instead of muslin for making a quilt with the redwork quilt patterns.
What types of Stitches are used for Redwork Embroidery?
There are two types of stitches that are most commonly used for outlining the redwork embroidery projects. The two types of redwork stitches are Stem Stitch and Outline Stitch.
On occasion a Satin Stitch was used to fill in small areas. For example, this type of stitches could have been used for the eyes or centers of flowers.
Two other types of stitches uses are the Backstitch or the split stitch. These two types of embroidery stitches are used for tight curves in a embroidery design.
Can Other Single Colors Be Used Instead of Red for This Type of Embroidery?
Yes, you can use another single color besides red to create a color work embroidery design. You can use green, blue, black or any other solid color. The name of the color work will change to the name of the color of embroidery thread being used. For example, if you are using green, the name will be come greenwork.
Free Redwork Embroidery Patterns
There are forty-nine free redwork embroidery patterns listed below from five websites. Each website has a list of free redwork embroidery patterns. You will need to print them off from the websites listed.
Free Redwork Embroidery and Quilting Patterns
Be sure to use free redwork patterns in the above link to access the patterns. The word quilting will take you to a list of Associated Content articles on quilting. There are eight redwork embroidery designs on the link above for making quilts. Each of the redwork embroidery designs will open in a PDF for easier printing. There is a note for printing the designs for corresponding with a quilt block size.
Free Redwork Patterns
There are fourteen redwork embroidery designs for various holidays and other events. The redwork embroidery patterns will open in a PDF by clicking on the pictures. You will be able to print the redwork pictures out from the PDF.
Feathered Heart Pillow Redwork Design
The feathered heart pillow pattern could be used for a quilt. I have seen this pattern in aredwork quilt over the years.
Redwork Vintage Designs
There are twelve redwork embroidery designs listed on this website. You will need to click on the picture you want to print in order to have access. You can print the redwork design from the new page.
Colonial Redwork Quilt
There are twenty-four colonial redwork patterns to print on the link above. You will need to click on the photos you want to access for printing. The colonial redwork designs will download to your computer.
The list of other redwork patterns on the menu on the left side of the page are for sale if you wish to choose from those. The colonial redwork embroidery designs were the only free ones at the time of this article.
Source
Redwork; Quiltbug.com
