happyholidays.pdf

Happy Holidays

By Susan Barlow

Materials Required:

Tracing paper.

Fine Black pen.

Pricking tool or a pin with a ball head.

Embroidery threads: Dark Green, Blue,

Yellow, Brown and Orange.

Perforating mat.

A few pins and sticky tape.

P. V.A. Craft Adhesive.

Card mount: DF04U, Textura Natural White.

To Make The Card:

Place the tracing paper over the diagram

below and using the black pen mark the position

of each dot on the diagram. Check that all the

dots are marked before removing the tracing.

The design is perforated directly onto the

centre panel of the card mount working from

the front.

Actual Size

Place the opened card face up on the perf-

orating mat (if you don’t have a perforating mat

the back of an old mouse mat works very well).

Position the tracing paper over the centre

panel of the card and make sure the horizon dots

are level. Push a pin through the top leftmost dot

marked on the tracing, go right through the card

as well and leave the pin in place. Do the same

with the top rightmost dot, this will anchor the

tracing to the card so it does not move whilst

you work.

Using the pricking tool or a ball headed pin,

prick through all the remaining dots on the

design, making sure you push right through

the card mount as well as the tracing paper.

Remove the pins and tracing paper. Perforate

through the two holes where the pins were to

make sure they are the same size as the rest.

The design is worked by stitching through

the holes made in the card. The exact colour of

the embroidery thread is not important, use the

photo and chart as a guide to colours and stitch

using straight stitch or back stitch as needed.

Use two strands throughout the design unless

otherwise indicated.

Begin with the trunk using brown thread.

Tape the end of the thread to the back of the card

and bring the needle through from the back at 1.

Work the outline of the trunk in running stitch,

taking the needle down at 2, up at 3, down at 4,

up at 5 and down at 6. This method works every

other stitch, continue to the top of the trunk then

turn round and work back down the trunk filling

in the missing stitches.

Work other side of the trunk and the zig-zags

on the trunk in the same way. Fasten off using a

little tape as before.

Next work the palm leaves using green thread

and the diagram on the right for guidance. Tape

the end of the thread to the back of the card close

to where you are about to stitch. Bring the needle

through from the back at 1. Take the needle

down at 2, back up at 3, down at 4, up at 5 and

down at 6. Use a small piece of tape to fasten the

end of the thread. Work the other four leaves in

the same way as the first.

Actual Size

The sun is worked in orange thread in the

same way as the palm leaves. Tape the thread to

secure, bring the needle up at 1, down at 2, up at

3 etc. As you work round you will find you begin

to use the holes twice to make the pattern, it is

complete when you have used each hole twice.

The sand is worked using yellow thread and

in exactly the same way as the palm leaves.

Ta pe the thread, bring the needle through from

the back at 1, take it down at 2, up at 3 etc.

Several of the ‘wave’ stitches are made using

blue and yellow stitched together, these are

shown in the diagram above. For these stitches

use a single strand of each colour and work in

straight stitch.

The remaining stitches are worked in straight

stitch using the colours shown in the diagram

on the previous page.

Left: This design is worked in the same way but

instead of using the whole card for the stitching

I have left space at the bottom for a peel off

greeting and decorative sea shell to add variety.

You may be able to find other tiny trinkets or

sequin confetti with a beach/island theme to

use with your stitched picture.

Hello,

We hope you enjoy this free project. You may hand make copies of this project,

to give away or sell, as many times as you like. You may not use the pattern,

project, text or pictures for any other purpose nor make the project using

any automated process.

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The details above are correct as of 1st January 2003, but are subject to change without prior notice.

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