Autumn & Winter
By Helga
Dharmpaul
Here are the Autumn and
Winter designs in my four
seasons set. They use the same
technique as the Spring and
Summer with a matching oval
border design. I have only
stitched around the edges of
the Holly and Ivy leaves which
allows the white to show and
emphasises the coldness.
Materials Required:
Tracing paper: TR001.
Single pricking tool or needle
pressed into a cork.
as well. Position the traced the tracing paper.
design onto the centre panel
Pricking mat.
Using the colours specified
and clip or tape it into place.
in the Materials list, stitch each
Clear adhesive tape.
Using the pricking tool, area of the design following the
Card mount: DF03U White.
carefully prick each dot on the charts, always bring the needle
traced design going through through from the back. When
Madeira Metallic Emerald
both the tracing and the card starting and finishing, secure
(leaves and stems, both).
mount. Make certain that you the end of the thread with a
Astro 4 Multicolour thread
have finished before removing small piece of clear sticky tape.
(border and words, both).
Actual Size
Madeira Glissen Gloss
08 (Acorn nut).
Madeira Glissen Gloss Rainbow
908 (Acorn cup).
Madeira Glissen Gloss Sterling
01 (Holly veins).
Red cotton (Berries).
3 Red sequins (Winter).
3 Small Red beads (Winter).
To Make The Card:
Place the tracing paper over
the actual size diagram and
mark each dot in pencil. Put the
card opened out and face up on
a softish surface, a pricking mat
is ideal, although folded kitchen
towel or a tea towel would work
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Left: This diagram
shows how each section
of the Autumn design is
worked. Bring the
needle up at hole 1 and
down at hole 2, up at
hole 3 and down at 4,
etc., continuing until all
the holes are used. This
applies regardless of the
shape being worked.
Autumn: Work the stem beginning at the
bottom right as shown in the chart and continue
to the top. Start again at the bottom left and work
up the stem, stitch across the first row of stitches
to make a  criss cross pattern. Work the side
piece of the stem in the same way. Outline the
edges of the leaves and acorns in backstitch.
Winter: This diagram shows how the Holly
and Ivy leaf outlines are worked, using back-
stitch over 3 holes. To keep the  points on the
leaves, backstitch to the point, do not take the
stitches around the corner but
restart at each one. The veins
Actual Size
are all worked in long straight
stitches in the colours given on
the materials list.
Winter: Stitch the  Holly
berries into place. Using Red
Metallic thread come up
through the work and the centre
of the sequin, take the thread
through the bead, go back down
through the hole in the sequin,
the bead will hold it in place.
Using Astro 4, work the
border design beginning at the
hole shown and take the thread
back in at the fifteenth hole.
Continue until all the holes
have been used twice, once in
each direction. Still using Astro
4 thread, work the word at the
bottom in back stitch.
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