Rose Redwork Kit
Kit - $16.00 Pattern only - $6.00
This is a kit to make the pillow shown. The design is my interpretation of a vintage redwork design, old-fashioned cottage roses with the saying "Beauty is the Mistress, the Gardener her Slave". Although there is a good amount of fine detail in this design, redwork is an easy and fast embroidery project because it uses just two embroidery stitches: outline (or stem) stitch and French knots.
The kit includes the design (approximately 12" x 12") hand-drawn in water soluble pencil on a 45" x 25" piece of pure white cotton batiste (actually 65% cotton/35% poly on the recommendation of my local needlework store for better wear and washability) and two skeins of embroidery thread in your choice of red or blue. I am also including a color picture of the completed redwork as well as instructions for the embroidery stitches. The kit does not include instructions for fashioning the completed redwork embroidery into a pillow, tea cloth, etc.
The 45" x 25" piece of cotton batiste is ample to be either fashioned into a 16" x 16" pillow (excluding ruffle, extra material for a ruffle is easily purchased at any fabric store), the top for a pillow sham, a tea cloth, or mounted and framed, as you see fit to use it.
The kit features quality materials and a beautiful design.
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Rose redwork pattern only:
The quote "Beauty is the Mistress, the Gardener Her Slave" is used
with permission from Michael P. Garofalo, from his webpage Pulling
