Dogwood Redwork Kit
Kit - $16.00 Pattern only - $6.00
This is a kit to make the pillow shown. This design is based on a dogwood wreath design I found in a turn-of-the-century book about flowers, the sentiment is mine. I elected to work this design in an untraditional pale lilac color to go into my bedroom (and had a very hard time photographing it, please excuse the bad pictures). It will look equally beautiful, and probably more dramatic, in either red or blue. This design is slightly smaller than my other ones, I wanted to make a smaller throw pillow. The design itself measures approx. 10.5" x 10", the actual pillow size is 14" diameter. 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 10.5" x 10") 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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