Eleventh in the "Victorian Garden" Series. What fun I had designing my little imaginary Gingerbread garden! Stitched on a Gingerbread coloured linen, using delectable silk flosses, overdyed silks, sparkling gold metallics and multicoloured beads for candies, this delightful garden sampler is a vibrant addition to the Gingerbread series. As you walk into this garden at the bottom of the sampler, a jaunty snowman made of icing sugar is watching over the gingerbread birdhouse, where tiny cardinals are feeding. Sweet icing sugar snow covers everything! Further on, a row of Gingerbread boys and girls are dancing amid the candy canes and delectable candy flower beds! At the top of the garden, a delicious and fragrant Gingerbread house dripping with icing sugar snow, glowing windows, and lots of decorative candies welcomes the hungry visitor. This yummy Learning Sampler is perfect for the beginning through intermediate specialty stitcher. You will practice some lovely specialty stitches such as Four-sided Pulled Stitches, Half Rhodes, Sheaf Stitch, Satin, Drawn Thread with hemstitching, Backstitches, French Knots, Cross Stitch over one fabric thread, Kloster Blocks, and Plait Stitches. Stitch this fragrant and delicious Gingerbread garden sampler and ornament for yourself or for a dear friend this Christmas! - Thea
NOTE: (Ornament shown is not available in the leaflet, but is available separately on our website as a Downloadable PDF called "Gingerbread Cookie".)
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Design Area: 30w x 115h (2 .1" wide x 8.2" high
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Model: 28ct Cashel Linen - Dirty Linen:
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Cut fabric: 8" X 14" for framing (OR 6" x 14" for bell pull finishing)
Suggested Materials
- Gloriana silk #115 “Topiary” - multi gold, green, red
- Kreinik Mori #0325 - salmon
- Kreinik Mori #4215 - olive green med
- Kreinik Mori #4216 - olive green dk
- Kreinik Mori #8000 - white
- Kreinik Mori #8050 - black
- Kreinik #4 Braid #002 - gold
- Access Au ver a Soie #2533 - yellow dk
- Access Au ver a Soie #4624 - cranberry
- Access Trebizond #595 - lilac
- Needlepoint Inc. silk #0763 - tan
- Tiny heart beads - red
- Mill Hill seed beads #02069 - purple
- Mill Hill petite beads #40557 - gold
- SJ Designs seed beads #11114 - bronze iris
- SJ Designs petite beads #1813 - red
- SJ Designs petite beads #1809 - green lt
- 28ct Cashel Linen - Dirty Linen
- #24 tapestry needle
- #10 short beading needle
Stitches used in this Sampler:
- Cross Stitch
- Backstitch
- Star Stitch
- Straight Stitch
- Partial Rhodes Stitch
- French Knot
- Plait Stitch
- Cross Stitch over ONE fabric thread
- Double Running Stitch
- Sheaf Stitch
- Four-Sided Stitch
- Beadwork
- Plain Hemstitch
- Couching
- Herringbone Stitch
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