Christmas Time
An ornament by Vicki Hastings
made with Kreinik metallic and silk threads
Design size: about 5 inches by 5.5 inches
Materials needed:
- Kreinik 1/16" Ribbon and Silk Mori as listed in color key
- Two 10" x 10" pieces of 18-count Ivory linen (Wichelt Imports)
Instructions:
- Work cross stitch with four strands of Silk Mori or one strand of Ribbon over two threads on the 18-ct linen following the color key below.
- Work Santa’s beard and eyebrows with French Knots of three strands Silk Mori 8000 wrapped three times. French Knot dots in eyes with one strand Mori 8000 (wrap 3 times).
- Blended color of cheeks is worked with two strands of each color indicated.
- Lay four strands of Silk Mori 8000 in longstitch (or satin stitch) for the moustache.
Finishing instructions:
Here is a pattern which allows about 1/4-inch of linen showing around the perimeter of the design area. (Note that pattern is reduced in size; enlarge it to be the size of your finished design.) The following are notes from our finisher.
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- Cut two cardboard stiffeners 1/8-inch smaller than the pattern for the worked linen.
- Cut two pieces of batting to the size of these stiffening cardboards.
- Cut the two worked linen pieces of batting to the size of these stiffening cardboards.
- Cut the two worked linen pieces allowing a 3/4-inch seam allowance beyond the pattern perimeter. The front and back linen pieces are lined in a similar colored cotton.
- Cut two pieces of lining fabric to match the linen pieces and sew each lining piece to the wrong side of a linen piece 1/4-inch from the edge.
- Position and stretch the front and back needleworked linen over the batting covered cardboards gluing each to the back side of its stiffener. Join the stretched front and back of the pocketwatch wrong sides together by hand, stitching along the perimeter. Suggestions: To give an elegant finished edge to the pocket watch, slip-stitch a gold metallic twisted cord along the outer edge with a like-colored gold metallic Cord. You may also use a length of 1/2-inch organdy ribbon in gold, red, green or white which is doubled and tied with a bow near its ends.
- Securely tack the knot of the bow to the top of the ornament. The resulting loop will serve as a hanger.
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