Dartboard seen face on hand embroidery pattern

Advanced · 3 colors · 2 kinds of stitch

Dartboard seen face on: preview of the stitched design

A dartboard is seen face on: a board of twenty wedges, ten dark and ten left as bare cloth by turns. The dark wedges are navy long and short stitch, a filling of stitches of uneven length that lock into one another. Two rings cross the wedges, the treble ring halfway out and the double ring at the outer edge; in each, the red pieces lie on the dark wedges and the green pieces on the bare ones. At the center the red bull sits inside the green ring round the bull, and the navy rim of the board closes the circle. The pieces of both rings, the bull, its ring and the rim are satin stitch.

Size and details

Advanced. Uses long and short stitch, satin stitch over about a quarter of the cloth in a 6 inch hoop and a great deal of stitching.

3 colors of floss and 2 kinds of stitch:

The stitched size and the widest satin stitch, by hoop
Hoop	Inches	Centimeters	Satin stitch up to
3 in (8 cm)	1.9 × 1.9 in	4.8 × 4.8 cm	1/8 in (3 mm)
4 in (10 cm)	2.8 × 2.8 in	7.1 × 7.1 cm	3/16 in (5 mm)
5 in (13 cm)	3.7 × 3.7 in	9.4 × 9.4 cm	1/4 in (6 mm)
6 in (15 cm)	4.7 × 4.7 in	11.9 × 11.9 cm	5/16 in (8 mm)
8 in (20 cm)	6.5 × 6.5 in	16.5 × 16.5 cm	7/16 in (11 mm)

The pattern is drawn inside a circle about half an inch (1.3 cm) smaller all around than the hoop.

What you need

DMC 336 Navy BlueDark wedges and rim of the board
DMC 304 Medium RedRed pieces of the treble ring, red pieces of the double ring and bull
DMC 320 Medium Pistachio GreenGreen pieces of the treble ring, green pieces of the double ring and ring round the bull

The floss is six-strand cotton; the stitch guide says how many strands to use. You also need a hoop, an embroidery needle (a size 7 to 9 suits two or three strands) and plain cotton or linen fabric. To frame the piece in its hoop, cut a square 3 inches (8 cm) wider than the hoop: a 9 inch (23 cm) square for a 6 inch hoop.

Stitch guide

Long and short stitch 1 or 2 strandsDark wedges
Satin stitch 2 strandsRed pieces of the treble ring, red pieces of the double ring, green pieces of the treble ring, green pieces of the double ring, ring round the bull, bull, rim of the board

Getting it onto your fabric

The PDF holds the pattern twice at actual size: once as drawn, and once mirrored for an iron-on transfer pen. Print it at 100% with scaling off and check the one-inch square (25.4 mm) with a ruler before you trace. How to transfer a pattern explains tracing, carbon paper and the other ways. The files are under Downloads.