Crabapple Hill Studio © 2014 Meg Hawkey

Crabapple Hill Studio © 2014 Meg Hawkey
Let’s Go Fly A Kite!:
Trace:
Heat Set:
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If you’ve made any mistakes in coloring, now is the time to fix them! After they’re
heat set it’s too late. You can remove most mistakes by using a cotton swab
dipped in a paste made of baking soda and water, and rubbing the colored area
until the color disappears. Then rinse JUST THAT SMALL AREA with clear, cool
water and let it air dry. You can now re-color or proceed with heat setting.
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You will need to heat set all of the color tinting you’ve done. Place clean, white
paper towels over the tinted area and press well with a hot iron. Check to see if
any color has transferred to the towels. If it has, get clean towels and repeat the
pressing process until no color transfers. You’ll notice that the colors smooth and
become transparent.
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Cut a piece of fabric for your stitchery background at least 14” x 22”.
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Tape the pattern pieces together. Pin the pattern under your fabric.
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Use a .01 Brown Pigma pen and a light box to trace the design onto your fabric as
follows.
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Lazy daisy stitches are transferred only as a tiny dot at the pointed end of each
stitch. The French knots (little circles on pattern) are also only traced as a tiny dot
at the center of each circle.
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XXX’s are traced with only a tiny dot at the center where the lines intersect.
Baste:
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Dry press the traced design.
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Tint:
BEGIN BY COLORING EVERYTHING THAT WILL BE TINTED WITH WHITE.
COLOR SOLIDLY BUT NOT HEAVILY.
THE WHITE ACTS AS A PRIMER FOR THE COLOR TINTING TO FOLLOW.
Hand baste the muslin and stitchery fabric together close around the edges of the
image and through the center of the piece in open spaces. You will embroider
through both layers.
Stitch:
Two strands of Cosmo floss are used unless otherwise instructed.
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Leave the bands of snow on the trees un-tinted.
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Tint trees and little snowman’s scarf with YELLOW GREEN, and shade with OLIVE
GREEN and GREEN.
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Tint snowflake SKY BLUE and shade it with ROBIN’S EGG BLUE.
#8047
#2702
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Shade the snowmen and the snow on the ground with ROBIN’S EGG BLUE.
#4300
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Tint the treetop stars, small snowman’s coat, and yellow bow DANDELION. Shade
them with GOLDENROD and a tiny bit of BURNT SIENNA.
red ornament outlines, earmuff pouf, mittens, and scarf outlines and XXX
stripes - scarf fringe uses a tiny chain stitch.
#895
Tint the small snowman’s mittens, red bows, large snowman’s earmuff, and ornaments on tree CARNATION PINK. Shade them with WILD STRAWBERRY and RED.
earmuff band and the French knot buttons on the back of the coat using 2
wraps.
#76-1
USE ENTIRE STRAND OF FLOSS to stitch the snow on the trees, X’s in
ornaments, and snowflake kite using long stitches, lazy daisies, and 1 wrap
French knots.
#8040
Now that the snowflake kite and snowmen are completed you can add the kite
string over them. It’s stitched in a tiny chain stitch.
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#8024
#8054
Color the carrot noses and orange bows ORANGE, and shade with RED ORANGE
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Color the earmuff band lightly with BLACK and shade with BLACK.
ALWAYS COLOR THE BLACK AFTER EVERYTHING ELSE IS TINTED.
BLACK WILL SMEAR BADLY!
HEAT SET IMMEDIATELY AFTER COLORING WITH THE BLACK CRAYON!
Trees and scarf - fringe on scarf uses a tiny chain stitch
Snowmen and snow on the ground - inner areas of snowflake kite and
bottoms of bands of snow on the trees (see photo)
Carrot noses - DO NOT stitch the orange bow yet!
Treetop stars, coat and XXX’s - DO NOT stitch the yellow bow yet!
#2702, #8047, #4300
Stitch the bows over the kite string
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