STITCHES USED
MATERIALS
Cotton fabric: 40x40cm, white Stranded cotton: 1 skein each of brown, light grey, red, light red and white
Embroidery hoop: 30cm diameter Hemming web (optional)
Magnetic poster hanger: 30cm, teak Basic embroidery kit
Blanket Stitch, Stem Stitch, Straight Stitch, Trellis Stitch, Weave Stitch
NOTES
Find the template on p67. To stitch this design using a smaller hoop, you’ll need to move the hoop around as you work. # 6,2 +! 6,2/ +""!)" &0 catching as you weave, turn it /,2+! +! 0)&!" &1 "6" /01 2+!"/ your stitches – because this end is blunt, it will snag less.
Transfer the design from the template 01 onto the fabric using your preferred method. Mount the fabric into your hoop ready for stitching. Using red, work Trellis Stitch across the jumpers. First, embroider the bolder vertical lines and then the horizontal ones using three strands. Next, switch to one strand and work small crosses over each point where these lines intersect.
:RUN HDFK SDLU RI WKH QHU YHUWLFDO OLQHV 02
in Straight Stitch using one strand of light red. Make sure your stitches are going underneath your Trellis Stitches each time.
)RU WKH QHU KRUL]RQWDO OLQHV ZRUN 03
Weave Stitch using one strand of light grey and white. For the top and bottom rows of each set of three, use light grey and weave your thread under the bolder vertical Trellis Stitches, over the left-hand thread of each vertical pair of Straight Stitches from step 2, and then under the right-hand thread of each of those pairs. Use white to work the middle line of each row. Alternate between going over and under the stitches from steps 1 and 2. If you’ve gone over in the row above, go under in the row you’re on and vice versa – you should be going under the left-hand light red stitches and over the right-hand ones.
Embroider the neck of the jumper using 04 Blanket Stitch in three strands of red. Using Stem Stitch, work the outline of 05 the jumper in three strands of red, too. Then, switch to brown and work the ears in three strands and the remaining outline of the dogs in four strands – all in Stem Stitch.
7R QLVK WULP WKH IDEULF WR PHDVXUH 06
25.5cm high and 33cm wide, making sure the design is straight and central. Then, press a 1.5cm hem along the side edges, using
KHPPLQJ ZHE WR [ WKHP LQ SODFH LI QHHGHG
Finally, attach your magnetic poster hanger to the top and bottom of the design.