Classic garden wall needlepoint pattern
Advanced · 15 colors · 4 × 4 in · 18 mesh
Download free PDFPDF, US Letter · 34 KB
A terracotta brick wall runs between two piers topped with cream balls, and pink climbing roses spill over it. A pot of lavender stands on a sand path in front, with light blue sky above and a strip of green lawn below.
Size and details
The chart is 72 × 72 stitches: a square ornament on 18 mesh canvas.
Worked in tent stitch throughout.
Advanced: 15 colors. Changes of color are about 3 stitches apart, leaving out the background around the picture. With 10 colors or more, closer than 4.5 apart is Advanced, 4.5 or more is Intermediate, and a design with this many colors is never Beginner.
| Mesh | Stitched size | Canvas to cut |
|---|---|---|
| 10 | 7.2 × 7.2 in 18.3 × 18.3 cm | 11.2 × 11.2 in 28.4 × 28.4 cm |
| 12 | 6 × 6 in 15.2 × 15.2 cm | 10 × 10 in 25.4 × 25.4 cm |
| 13 | 5.5 × 5.5 in 14.1 × 14.1 cm | 9.5 × 9.5 in 24.2 × 24.2 cm |
| 14 | 5.1 × 5.1 in 13.1 × 13.1 cm | 9.1 × 9.1 in 23.2 × 23.2 cm |
| 18 | 4 × 4 in 10.2 × 10.2 cm | 8 × 8 in 20.3 × 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.
Paper for the PDF
Threads and canvas
- DMC 813 Light Blue 1,553 stitches about 11 yards
- DMC ECRU Ecru 753 stitches about 6 yards
- DMC 356 Medium Terra Cotta 723 stitches about 5 yards
- DMC 738 Very Light Tan 671 stitches about 5 yards
- DMC 702 Kelly Green 417 stitches about 3 yards
- DMC 700 Bright Green 308 stitches about 3 yards
- DMC 433 Medium Brown 164 stitches about 2 yards
- DMC 436 Tan 131 stitches about 1 yard
- DMC 920 Medium Copper 130 stitches about 1 yard
- DMC 890 Ultra Dark Pistachio Green 93 stitches about 1 yard
- DMC 3326 Light Rose 68 stitches about 1 yard
- DMC 335 Rose 66 stitches about 1 yard
- DMC 600 Very Dark Cranberry 50 stitches about 1 yard
- DMC 210 Medium Lavender 29 stitches about 1 yard
- DMC 208 Very Dark Lavender 28 stitches about 1 yard
5,184 stitches in the chart, about 43 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 basketweave or continental 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 stitch. 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
- Chart for US Letter paper PDF · 2 pages
- Chart for A4 paper PDF · 2 pages
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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