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Haunted House Halloween Embroidery
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Haunted Mansion Embroidery

Learn how to make the coolest haunted house embroidery for Halloween. Welcome to your home sweet haunted home!
Course Halloween Crafts
Prep Time 15 minutes
Cook Time 4 hours
Total Time 4 hours 15 minutes
Servings 1 piece
Cost $10

Equipment

  • Iron
  • Embroidery hoop 7-inch
  • Scalloped fabric shears optional

Ingredients

  • Haunted house applique pattern click to get free
  • Aida cloth or linen fabric
  • Heat n' Bond Heat ‘n Bond Lite or Pellon 805
  • 1 skein Embroidery floss black
  • Fabric scraps dark gray, purple, black, white, and light gray
  • Carbon paper
  • Tape

Instructions

  • Start by cross-stitching the top words "home sweet" with two strands of embroidery floss.
    "Home Sweet" embroidered in black thread
  • Cut out your pattern and tape it onto your fabric to use as spacer for the bottom letters. Line everything up and cross-stitch the bottom word "home."
    Haunted house pattern on top of linen
  • For your applique pieces, first trace the shapes onto the paper side of your interfacing. Put the interfacing, paper side up, onto the back of your fabric, and press with a hot, dry iron.
    Cut out the shape (I used some scallop fabric shears on the bottom of the roof, but that is completely optional).
    Ironing a ghost pattern onto white fabric
  • Peel the paper backing off all of the appliques.
    Peeling the paper backing off of the ghost
  • To help me line up all of the house pieces, I placed them on top of the pattern and used small pieces of tape to hold them together.
    Taping all the pattern pieces onto the paper pattern
  • Bring the house over to your linen fabric, line it up, and iron the edges. Try not to iron over the tape. Once you have gotten the edges secure, remove the tape and iron over the whole house.
    Ironing over the pattern pieces
  • Iron the remaining pieces onto the linen.
    house, bat, and ghosts ironed onto the linen
  • Transfer the other elements of the design onto the linen. I like to use dressmaker's carbon paper that can be found at the fabric store. Just sandwich it in between the pattern and your project and trace over it. The design will transfer so you can embroider over it.
    Transferring the pattern onto the linen with carbon paper
  • Stitch around all of your applique pieces with a running stitch and one strand of embroidery floss. For the windows, I just stitched the detail on and didn't worry about stitching around the entire shape.
    Finish by removing from the hoop and placing in a frame (iron if necessary).
    haunted mansion embroidery in a frame

Notes

Step 1: Cross-stitching on linen can be a bit tricky at first because it's not quite as stiff as Aida cloth (which is what you'd typically use for cross stitch).
If you have poor eyesight or you’ve never cross-stitched before, you might try using some Aida cloth instead. Aida cloth is perfect for beginners . . . plus you can buy other colors if you want to change this project up a little bit.