About this Moonlit Black Rabbit Ghosts Berry Wreath embroidery pattern
Moonlit Black Rabbit Ghosts Berry Wreath brings celestial and botanical details into a hand-embroidery composition. Study the colored design and outline together before choosing which shapes to shade, outline or simplify. The supplied guide identifies these motifs: A seated near-black rabbit anchors the foreground in front of a large pale cratered full moon. Four small white ghosts float within a symmetrical wreath of olive leaves and blue-green berries. Copper crescent moons, hanging stars and tiny starbursts punctuate the ring, while a loose dark-teal and old-gold scalloped line creates an airy outer celestial frame. Artwork reference - complete composition, undistorted.
The colored image is a design reference. Thread, fabric and your stitch choices will affect the finished result. Preserve the open spaces around the smaller motifs and test difficult fills on a spare piece of fabric before stitching the main design.
Printable outline preview
This watermarked preview shows the transfer drawing. Clean outlines are included in the purchased pattern PDF.
Choose your hoop size
The outline pages are labeled for 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8 inch hoops. Measure the printed design before transfer, because printer margins and fit-to-page settings can affect its dimensions.
The stitch guide recommends 8" / 20 cm HOOP for this design.
A larger version gives fine contours and clustered motifs more room. Select the size that preserves the details you want to stitch.
Color and stitch guidance
The supplied guide proposes 16 DMC colors. Compare important shades with real floss under your working light.
- Backstitch
- Stem stitch
- Split stitch
- Satin stitch
- Long-and-short stitch
- Fishbone stitch
- French knots
- Straight stitch
The supplied guide labels this design advanced. Allow time for controlled spacing and detailed areas.
Natural ivory linen or cotton-linen with a visible even weave. Preserve open ground around the
Stitching sequence
- PHASES 1. TRANSFER + CIRCULAR FRAME Transfer the rabbit, moon, four ghosts, main leaf-and-berry clusters, both hanging stars, copper crescents and the two loose outer meander paths. Establish the moon circle in 415, rabbit silhouette in 310 and main foliage stems in 3011. Mark berry centers and star positions, but leave tiny dots and rays for the end. 2. FULL MOON + GHOST FORMS Fill the moon in 3865/762/415/318 with curved, overlapping long-and-short stitches and darker 318/317 crater islands. Stitch each ghost in 3865/762, dropping 318 into lower folds and keeping the edges soft. Add one-strand 310 faces only after all pale fill is complete so the expressions stay crisp. 3. BLACK RABBIT FOCAL FIGURE Work the rabbit from head and ears through chest, forelegs, belly and haunch with 310/939/3799, following anatomical fur direction. Add restrained 317 reflected light along the ear rims, muzzle and upper body. Finish the eye, nose, mouth and paw divisions in one strand, preserving the rabbit as the darkest mass in the design. 4. OLIVE FOLIAGE + BLUE-GREEN BERRIES Build the wreath outward from the stems. Fishbone leaves with 3011/3012/3013, shifting lighter values toward leaf tips. Fill berries with 924/926 using compact satin or short long-and-short stitches, then add tiny 762 highlights to selected fruit. Keep groups balanced but not mechanically mirrored. 5. COPPER CELESTIAL DETAILS Fill the top and bottom crescents and hanging stars with 400/301-style warm copper handling using 400 plus 801 shadow accents. Suspend the stars in one-strand 801, then add warm 400 starbursts and small rust dots. Keep copper accents secondary to the moon and rabbit, using short, clean stitches with sharp points. 6. OUTER MEANDER + FINAL BLOCKING Trace the irregular dark-teal outer line in 924 and the companion old-gold line in 729, letting the two paths drift around one another without becoming a rigid border. Add isolated French knots and tiny pale/gold sparks last. Recheck spacing around each ghost and berry cluster, remove transfer marks, trim traveling threads and block face-down over padding
Review the full guide in your download for motif-specific thread placement. General techniques are covered in pattern transfer methods and finishing an embroidery hoop.
What your download contains
Your purchase opens a private Google Drive folder containing the three listed PDFs. The clean outline is inside the main pattern PDF. The gridded image reference is separate from the surface-embroidery drawing and is not a machine embroidery file or a symbol-by-symbol DMC cross-stitch key.
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Pattern questions
Is this for hand embroidery?
Yes. The outline and stitching guide are for hand embroidery. No machine-ready PES or DST file is included.
Will I receive a physical kit?
No. This is a digital pattern package. Hoops, needles, thread, fabric and a finished piece are not included.
Can I sell a finished embroidery piece?
You may sell small quantities of physical pieces stitched by you under the pattern license. You may not resell or share the digital pattern files.
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