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I find embroidery on paper to be a fun mix of genres so I couldn’t resist using some of my stash of Halloween paper to do some Halloween embroidery on paper!
How to Embroider on Paper
Of course you can embroider anything on paper of any type, but the key preparation element is poking holes in the paper so you can stitch it.
I have a whole post on how to embroider on paper if you need more help with that. In that post I used a straight pin to poke my holes.
For this Halloween embroidery on paper project I tried poking the holes with my sewing needle and it was not a good experience. I don’t remember it being so unpleasant when I used a pin, but that was also a smaller project.
Getting Ready to Embroider
This is more of an idea than a do exactly what I did tutorial, but I started with a 6 by 8 inch (15.2 by 20.3 cm) piece of printed card stock I got at Joann (RIP) (similar here).
My pages were perforated on one side and I messed up the spiderweb the first time, so the actual sheet I used is more like 7 inches/17.78 cm tall.
I drew a spiderweb in the corner on the back of the paper (using a clip art from Canva as a model) and then poked holes from the back to the front with my sewing needle.
Halloween Embroidery on Paper Project
The spiderweb is stitched with two strands of black embroidery floss.
The stitching is just back stitching, where you go into one hole and the next, then forward one hole and back to the last hole you stitched before that.
This way you’ll have a continuous line of stitching.
When I started this Halloween embroidery on paper project I thought it might just be the spiderweb, but then I decided I wanted to do more with the rest of the paper.
I decided to stitch the word boo in orange across the rest of the paper, mostly because it’s short and those are letters I could easily write backward (since it’s really only the B that is backward). I won’t show you the back because it took me multiple tries to get the letters looking as good as they are, and they’re still pretty wonky.
If you want yours to be a little less hand-drawn, you can find a font you like, type out the word you want to use, flip it backwards and print it out and trace the letters onto your paper.
I like the obviously handmade look.
This Halloween embroidery on paper idea would be cute to frame, use as a greeting card or add to an art journaling page. I’m just moving it around the house trying to decide where I want to display it. It’s a really fun project you can do in lots of different ways — try stitching a pumpkin, a witch hat, a different word, whatever strikes your fancy. You can even do this one with kids if you poke the holes for them.
