Here's a little Friday freebie for you! As part of our embroidery month celebrations, Carina from happy-making embroidery website Polka & Bloom is offering a free pattern to three lucky followers of The Making Spot! 3 lucky winners will get their pattern of choice aboslutely free! Read on to find out how to enter...

How to enter

All you have to do to enter is tell us your favourite pattern in the Polka & Bloom pattern store. There are 3 ways to enter this competition and be in with a chance of winning a free Polka & Bloom embroidery pattern... 1) leave a comment beneath this post  2) tell us your favourite on our Facebook page or 3) Tweet us @TheMakingSpot. We'll draw 3 lucky winners at random next Friday 2nd March at 12pm UK time and Carina will send you your pattern aboslutely free!

Which will you choose?

Here's a few of our favourites to get you started, or click on over to Polka & Bloom pattern shop. Be warned though - their patterns are seriously addictive. And for more embroidery month goodness, check out our stitch library series to find out how to master all the basics.. or our own collection of sewing projects.

Oooh this one could be our favourite - Dala Häst: swedish horse embroidery pattern - can just picture it on bed linen...

Marigold Sugar Skull embroidery pattern - or maybe this one - it reminds us of a men's stitching exhibition we visited in London once which celebrated the Mexican Day of the Dead!

Ooooh or maybe this one's our favourite.... (Decisions decisions!) - Summer garden embroidery pattern

Spring Happyscapes - ok it's official - this is ours...  this was inspired by 'spring, fairies & smurf houses'... love it!

What's your favourite? tell us below!