Bring Me Her Heart

Bring Me Her Heart by Kathryn Landis, released through The Black Needle Society pattern vault, originally taught as a class through Lady Dot Creates — a small chart that crams the entire Evil Queen arc from Snow White (1937) into a single 44-stitch square.

The title is the Queen’s first order to the Huntsman: “…you will kill her… and to make doubly sure you do not fail, bring back her heart in this” (handing him the carved box). The chart visualises that line by conflating the two objects she gives away across the film — the central motif is a red apple with a skull face carved into the flesh (the poisoned apple she later transforms herself into a hag to deliver) rendered as an anatomical heart, with the curving vessels of the aorta and pulmonary arteries branching out the top where the stem and leaves should be. Heart and apple, both deadly, both hers.

The reverse keeps the Queen theme going: a red-and-cream polka-dot cotton backing with a small wool felt pocket at the bottom centre, tucked with a tiny printed disc reading “Mirror, Mirror, on the wall…” — the other half of the Queen’s famous lines, on the side of the ornament that doesn’t show. The “mirror” insert can be slid in and out of the felt pocket. A pewter 2024 charm sits at the top of the front.

Stitched on 32ct Wichelt Vintage Country Mocha — a soft warm-mocha hand-dyed evenweave that lets the apple’s red and the dark vessels read as if they’re emerging from old parchment. Threads are Weeks Dye Works overdyes throughout.

Finished as a round padded ornament with the front and printed-cotton back seamed together, edged in small antique-brass beads / pinheads around the perimeter, and dressed with the felt mirror-pocket on the reverse.