Wednesday, 12 November 2025

Pixels and Purls Floral Ghost Halloween Embroidery Update

Halloween has been and gone, but spooky season is all year round! Or so I'm going to lead you to believe, so I can justify posting a belated progress photo of my Halloween embroidery. Haha!

I've been working on the cutest ghost embroidery from Pixels and Purls this autumn, but I didn't manage to finish it on time, as I ran out of red thread a few days before Halloween. I'm still waiting for a new skein to be delivered so I can complete it, which is so frustrating as I only have a flower and a half left to stitch, and a few corrections to take care of.

But this is where I'm at.


Although it's not finished, I'm really pleased with how it's turned out so far. I'm still pretty new to embroidery, and hadn't even attempted half of the stitches before, so I don't think it came out too badly for a novice. We just won't speak of how much of a mess I made of the long-and-short-stitch ghost! (I thought my stitches were straight... apparently, I was wrong. So very wrong). Luckily, it's only noticeable close up.

I also struggled to get the hang of the fishbone-stitch flowers, and ended up unpicking and redoing them with four strands instead of two as they were so taking forever. I think I got there, in the end, but I still need to redo a couple of petals on the left. 

Thankfully, I did much better with my first attempts at the stem and woven wheel stitches, and particularly enjoyed sewing the woven wheel flowers- they were so therapeutic to weave! (Maybe I need to try weaving?!) I need to redo one of the orange ones, because I slipped with the scissors when trimming threads from the French knots at the back, but other than that, I think they came out really well.


I also made a design choice, and painted my embroidery hoop orange to tie it all together, and I think it compliments the embroidery perfectly. I used acrylic paints, starting with a coat of white underneath to make the orange paint pop, and it was so quick and easy to do. It's amazing the difference a little bit of colour makes to the overall look of the piece.

I love the design, and the contradiction of spooky and pretty. I fell in love with it the moment I came across it while looking for a new pattern to make after Easter, and couldn't resist buying the PDF of the pattern immediately. It also comes as a full kit, and as a  printed fabric panel, so there's the perfect format for everybody. I found the pattern and instructions really simple to follow, and they're clear enough for even a beginner to make sense of, so don't be afraid to give it a go!

I think I'll definitely be going back to try other patterns from them in the future... but right now, it's time to move on to some festive cross stitching.

Have you stitched or made anything fun lately?

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