I really like the concept of sewing greeting playing cards, or actually making any sorts of greeting playing cards to ship to folks. Or perhaps sending playing cards normally. No matter.
This “Whats up Pumpkin” chart from Gathered could be an ideal one to sew up as a greeting card, and it’s truly proven within the sample being utilized in that method.
This mission was designed by Jenny Van De Wiele for The World of Cross Stitching journal and is being provided as a free sample. There’s truly an entire set of those little harvest time greetings, and you should buy a digital copy of the journal if you wish to sew any of the others.
This one is 46 by 45 stitches, and it makes use of 10 colours. You could possibly make the pumpkins any colours you want or make them in two completely different colours as an alternative of 4 if you wish to use fewer colours.
On 14 rely cloth or 28 rely evenweave it measures 3.25 inches sq., or about 8.5 cm. So it’s good for mounting onto somewhat card or simply placing right into a small body. It will simply slot in a 4-inch hoop or somewhat body of your selecting and could be cute in a show of pumpkins (handcrafted, actual or in any other case).
There are a few other ways which you could mount a bit of cross sew onto a greeting card. In case your card has a gap (or you’ll be able to cute out a gap to suit) then you’ll be able to simply tape the cross sew to the within of the cardboard, utilizing the tape to cowl up the uncooked edges of the cross sew cloth.
This picture exhibits the cross sew on the skin of the cardboard, nevertheless it doesn’t have directions for the way to do this. I’m inclined to assume you’d need to use a sprig adhesive to attempt to maintain down each strand of the material, however you can additionally use ornamental tape on the skin or end the perimeters of your design with a bit of cloth or ribbon to maintain it from fraying.
You possibly can seize this free sample from Gathered, and take a look at their digital editions if you’d like extra of the patterns.
[Photo: Gathered]
