Advent Calendar 2017 – No. 23

Heart

Linen: old handwoven 17/cm thread count, cut to about 25 cm X 60 cm
Threads: coton à broder No. 16 for interlacing the Herringbone stitches and for the needlelace; No. 20 for Coral Knot stitches; No. 30 for Chain stitches, Herringbone stitches, and the filling patterns; 2 strands of 6-ply stranded cotton for the Satin and Stem stitches.
Design: No. 16 measuring 14 cm X 16.93 cm
Filling patterns: heart – “Herzgeflecht” (Limetrosen II), wings of the bird – Plumage (Limetrosen I), body of the bird – interlaced Herringbone stitches variant “a” (Schwalm Curved Lines, Narrow Borders, and Ornamental Stitches)
Needlelace: Multirow needlelace arches (Schwalm Needlelace edge decorations)
If you want to use it as bag for a gift bag, you can work a button border closure on the back of the heart.

By Luzine Happel on 23. December 2017   /   Advent Calendar, blog, small projects, embroideries   /   2 Comments

2 Comments

1. Annette Haggerty

   12:39 pm on March 12, 2018

   Love this heart, Luzine. Would you show pictures on how to do the button border closure?

   Thank you

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   • Luzine Happel

     8:26 am on March 17, 2018

     In a future article I will show pictures of how to do the button border closure for a heart, but may be you have to wait some month for publishing.

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