#biscornu

[posiemae]

Garfield Biscornu. First side design.

[thackeroy]

This is the Rainbow Love Biscornu by FireplaceHobby on Etsy, I stitched this up within one month early on this year. It's my first biscornu so of course as a raging queer I had to do something with rainbows on! I rummaged through my buttons to find the perfect one and came across this lone square button and thought it was perfect for a cross stitch project, don't you think? This little baby gets a lot of use, always full of needles and pins, I plan on making some more biscornus and pin cushions at some point, there's so many wonderful patterns out there! I think I'd like to make a blackwork one next.

[aerialsquid]

Somehow did not post EITHER of the CidNero biscornus I made for my friends? What???

[ashes-t0-ashes]

tried blackwork for the first time on a biscornu 🖤🪡

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original pattern by Nancy Pederson (from The Gift of Stitching Issue 54 July 2010)

their website can be found at tudorthyme.wordpress.com

thank you to @lpanne for helping me in the replies!

[passigentilcoquelicot]

Biscornu !

[elizabethplaid]

A Pumpkin Preview - Oct 28, 2023

We had these spiderweb candy bowls at the library, so I thought they'd make an interesting display for my pumpkins. This is only about half of the stock, but it's a good preview of what my craft fair display might look like. The black and orange ones have spiders, but the cream/gray one is bones and skulls.

These are the pumpkins we stuffed last week, including the one I forgot at home (still not stuffed yet). The green one is from August's harvest, as I wanted LL-K to see how that yarn knit up as a whole pumpkin. (She complimented how I used it on the stems and was curious about it as a whole thing. I'm like, "Well boy howdy, do I have some good news for you.")

Anyone remember the 2nd Oberon biscornu I started last fall? Just got around to seaming the panels together today. The corners and centers weren't meeting properly (off my a couple stitches), so I'm wondering if my panels aren't square. Even if they were stretched on the frame, the square count should still be right. So this bugger will get sewn like a normal square, alas.

My thread also broke, so I saw it as a sign to stop for the day. Trying to craft while confused and frustrated is not fun and can make things worse. Even if I don't include it in next week's craft fair offerings, I'd like to at least get it finished by the end of the year.

[welcometothejunkpile]

So my New Year's Revolution this year is to finish at least a big chunk of my current WIP and limit starting any new ones. My mom is aware and has been very enthusiastic about making me keep to it.

I would also like to actually document some of this so...

Here is a newly finished project

This is my first biscornu.

https://feltmagnet.com/textiles-sewing/How-To-Make-A-Biscornu

I got the pattern from this website. I didn't want to fight with designing my own pattern on top of learning the technique, so I just used the one shown in the tutorial. Though I inversed the colors, stitching white on navy instead of navy on white.

It took a lot longer than I expected (normal for cross stitch), and because it exists in two distinct pieces, second sock syndrome is a problem.

Stitching them was pretty straightforward, though my decision to use 3 strands of floss instead of 2 became annoying quickly.

The new technique of stitching them together was interesting. In the future, I would want to use a longer length to make sure the back stitch is all done in a single length. At one point, while whip-stitching, the backstitch came undone, and I had to stop and redo and make sure the ends were secure in order to keep going.

The whip stitch is pretty cool here. You can see how it creates almost a third row of stitches. I did it with 2 strands. I wonder how it would have looked with 3. (Gods I hate working with odds numbers though)

Stuffing it was pretty straightforward too, but sewing the button on and pulling it tight was an exercise in wishing I had 3 hands. Or a longer needle.

I probably wouldn't mind doing another of these some day, but... maybe a smaller one.

[unearthlychild34]

Little bit new to this blogging thing, so uhhh… here’s something I made, thanks.

It’s called a biscornu and is embroidered with Scottish thistles. Usually these were pincushions a few centuries ago, but I decided to make it mini and a pendant for a friend.

[sleepycatmama]

Biscornu I made for my Mom for Mother's Day. It has a little round bag I sewed inside filled with lavender buds. That made the center bulky enough that I didn't do the center pin with a button.

[frangipani-wanderlust]

Check out this pincushion I made! I used a tutorial by XiaoXiaoYarn on YouTube.

[maramcna]

Head in hands

The time has come once more for the Urge to make a biscornu

[posiemae]

It’s finally completed.

[cozy-ghost-crafting]

Just a reminder that sometimes I make stuff and I'm always proud of it

[aerialsquid]

An Elpis themed biscornu I made for my friend Gogomi! Most of the outside edge pattern came from here, but I added the axolotl and Ancient from patterns I designed myself (I'll post seperately), the apple tree's freehanded, and the starbirds came from a fragment of an unrelated pattern. Really impressed with how this one came out,

[pattern-of-the-year]

Bespoke Biscornus in Beige + Baby Blues, designed* and stitched by ddpej (*one section was adapted directly from patterns by mathysphere)

Propaganda: None Submitted (but you can leave some in the notes!)

Fantasy in Blue Bread Cloth by Sam Hawkins in 'Sam Hawkins Designs Cross Stitch for Bread Cloths', 1990

Propaganda: for all the breadheads out there. Looks like-- blueberries in there?

[passigentilcoquelicot]

Wip - biscornus/Christmas ornaments