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The Norwegian Biscornu Pincushion Pattern – Freebie

I was supposed to make something else, but I had this pattern lying around which I had yet to stitch and introduce. So here it is, the last/latest Norwegian bunad-related biscornu pincushion.

The downloadable pattern is in black and white with marks on so you can fill in the colours you like the most, or stick to mine. That’s up to you. The colours you see in my stitched example are also not the ones I’ve included in my pattern. I just picked something randomly.

If you don’t know how to stitch together a biscornu, you can check out my tutorial on the subject here.

How to make a 15 sided biscornu pincushion

Tutorial: How to make a 15 sided biscornu pincushion (alt. 2)

If you are unfamiliar with the regular biscornu pincushion, please see the appropriate tutorial. Or the first alternative on how to make  a 15 sided biscornu pincushion. This is one of three ways you can make a 15 sided biscornu pincushions. This is the…

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The latest scoop on Mrs. Nielsen Embroidery

The latest scoop on Mrs. Nielsen Embroidery

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I bought a house

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A new year and some thoughts

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Chinese Traditional Folk Floral Mandala

Chinese Traditional Folk Floral Mandala

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Chinese Traditional Folk Embroidery Carp Motif

Chinese Traditional Folk Embroidery Carp Motif

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blue bluted mega heart

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The latest scoop on Mrs. Nielsen Embroidery

Back from vacation!

I’ve spent two wonderful (and exhausting) weeks in North-Jutland of Denmark. My original plan was to draw up some new patterns and work with those during the evenings when we weren’t out exploring somewhere.  It did’t quite work out that way and instead of…