Stitch diagrams include French knot, lazy daisy, primitive stitch, and backstitch.
Charming set with a surprising amount of detail expressed in few stitches.
1. little stitchies series #170-181 January - December, 2009
12 blocks of the same house with details for each month.
Each month has a slightly different embroidered border - see photos.
January - snowman and snowflakes
February - hearts
March - shamrocks, kite, and clouds with wind blowing
April - flowers, bunny, eggs
May - bird bath with birds, flowers
June - picnic blanket with basket and flowers
July - red, white, and blue stars with flag
August - flowers
September - leaves changing color, apples with basket
October - pumpkins
November - pumpkin, wheat shafts
December - Santa on sleigh with reindeer in sky, decorated tree, wrapped gifts
Directions suggest using these as blocks for a quilt or framing them separately.
2. little stitchies series #146 Sewing Stitchery, 2007
Clever bonus pattern of text "Sewing" made up of sewing accessories including needle and thread, tape measure, scissors, rotary cutter, spool of thread, strawberry pin cushion.
See photo.
Kit includes
- Color photos
- Line drawings for 12 blocks, one for each month plus Sewing Stitchery block
- Embroidery directions with stitch diagrams
- Assembly directions for 12 block quilt
- Thread list for DMC floss
NOTE: there is no fabric, thread, or needles included in this listing, just the embroidery and quilt directions, DMC thread list, and design drawings.
Proceeds to Textile Center, textilecentermn.org.
Please look at my other kits and patterns.
New items listed most Thursday evenings.
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