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Bargello Easter egg needlepoint pattern

Beginner · 5 colors · 3 × 4 in · 18 mesh

Colors: SherbetChange

Bargello Easter egg: 54 by 72 canvas threads in upright stitches.

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An egg shape is filled with zigzag rows of upright stitches that rise to points and fall again. The rows repeat in coral, apricot, pale yellow, pale green and pale blue from top to bottom.

Size and details

The chart is 54 × 72 canvas threads at its widest and tallest: an egg ornament on 18 mesh canvas, with 2,950 squares of the chart stitched inside its outline.

Worked in upright stitches over 4 canvas threads; where the pattern meets the outline some are shorter.

Beginner: 5 colors. The chart is in long upright stitches over more than 1 canvas thread, and every band of color is the same shape as the band above it, so only the first has to be followed from the chart. With up to 7 colors, that is Beginner, and with more it is Intermediate.

Colors

Sizes on each mesh
MeshStitched sizeCanvas to cut
105.4 × 7.2 in
13.7 × 18.3 cm		9.4 × 11.2 in
23.9 × 28.4 cm
124.5 × 6 in
11.4 × 15.2 cm		8.5 × 10 in
21.6 × 25.4 cm
134.2 × 5.5 in
10.6 × 14.1 cm		8.2 × 9.5 in
20.7 × 24.2 cm
143.9 × 5.1 in
9.8 × 13.1 cm		7.9 × 9.1 in
20 × 23.2 cm
183 × 4 in
7.6 × 10.2 cm		7 × 8 in
17.8 × 20.3 cm

Mesh is the number of canvas threads to the inch; the row in bold is the mesh this chart is sized for. Canvas to cut includes a margin of 2 in (5.1 cm) of bare canvas on every side. Leave at least that much.

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Threads and canvas

Sherbet

  • DMC 745 Light Pale Yellow 634 squares about 3 yards
  • DMC 955 Light Nile Green 617 squares about 3 yards
  • DMC 3854 Medium Autumn Gold 588 squares about 3 yards
  • DMC 813 Light Blue 567 squares about 3 yards
  • DMC 351 Coral 544 squares about 3 yards

2,950 squares inside the outline, one canvas thread each, about 15 yards in all. The yards are estimates for 18 mesh.

Thread colors are approximate screen matches to DMC numbers. Check against real thread before you buy.

The numbers are DMC color numbers, which its six-strand cotton and its pearl cotton share. Wool and silk are numbered differently: match those by eye. For how many strands and which needle, see which thread suits which mesh.

The yards are of thread as it is threaded in the needle: stitched with several strands together, a thread takes that many yards of single strand for every yard listed. For six-strand cotton on 18 mesh, the thread and needle chart gives 4 to 6 strands.

You also need blank needlepoint canvas (mono canvas) in the mesh you choose (see mesh sizes), cut to the size in the table above, and a tapestry needle.

An estimate. The length of thread one stitch uses on the front and back of the canvas, times the number of stitches, plus 30 percent for starting, ending and the tail left in the needle. Each count is estimated as upright over 4 canvas threads and rounded up to a whole yard, so the yards in all are a little more than the thread calculator gives for every stitch at once. The 30 percent is this site's own choice. The thread calculator works the same estimate for any count and mesh.

Getting it onto your canvas

This is a counted chart: one square of the chart is one canvas thread. Find the center of your canvas and the center of the chart (the red arrows above and to the left of the chart), and count out from there, a color at a time.

Nothing is printed on the canvas, so no transfer is needed. How to needlepoint covers the first stitches.

Downloads

Each file has the thread key and the sizes on its first page, then the chart with a symbol in every square and a heavier line every ten. A chart too large for one page is divided over several, with two rows or columns repeated in gray where the pages join; a page may be turned on its side for a part that is wider than it is tall.

For your own stitching, gifts and handmade pieces you sell. Do not resell or share this PDF.

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