Victorian grapes and vine pillow needlepoint pattern
Advanced · 12 colors · 10 × 10 in · 13 mesh
Colors: Purple grapes on creamChange
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Two bunches of purple grapes, a large one and a smaller one to its right, hang from a brown vine branch with three green leaves and curling olive green tendrils. The background is cream with no border.
Size and details
The chart is 130 × 130 stitches: a pillow on 13 mesh canvas.
Worked in tent stitch throughout.
Advanced: 12 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 | 13 × 13 in 33 × 33 cm | 17 × 17 in 43.2 × 43.2 cm |
| 12 | 10.8 × 10.8 in 27.5 × 27.5 cm | 14.8 × 14.8 in 37.7 × 37.7 cm |
| 13 | 10 × 10 in 25.4 × 25.4 cm | 14 × 14 in 35.6 × 35.6 cm |
| 14 | 9.3 × 9.3 in 23.6 × 23.6 cm | 13.3 × 13.3 in 33.7 × 33.7 cm |
| 18 | 7.2 × 7.2 in 18.3 × 18.3 cm | 11.2 × 11.2 in 28.5 × 28.5 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
Purple grapes on cream
- DMC ECRU Ecru 11,612 stitches about 110 yards
- DMC 210 Medium Lavender 1,679 stitches about 16 yards
- DMC 550 Very Dark Violet 699 stitches about 7 yards
- DMC 3011 Dark Khaki Green 580 stitches about 6 yards
- DMC 898 Very Dark Coffee Brown 462 stitches about 5 yards
- DMC 208 Very Dark Lavender 430 stitches about 5 yards
- DMC 211 Light Lavender 395 stitches about 4 yards
- DMC 522 Fern Green 320 stitches about 4 yards
- DMC 890 Ultra Dark Pistachio Green 228 stitches about 3 yards
- DMC 987 Dark Forest Green 201 stitches about 2 yards
- DMC 433 Medium Brown 149 stitches about 2 yards
- DMC 3837 Ultra Dark Lavender 145 stitches about 2 yards
16,900 stitches in the chart, about 166 yards in all. The yards are estimates for 13 mesh.
Purple grapes on black
- DMC 310 Black 11,612 stitches about 110 yards
- DMC 210 Medium Lavender 1,679 stitches about 16 yards
- DMC 550 Very Dark Violet 699 stitches about 7 yards
- DMC 3011 Dark Khaki Green 580 stitches about 6 yards
- DMC 433 Medium Brown 462 stitches about 5 yards
- DMC 553 Violet 430 stitches about 5 yards
- DMC 211 Light Lavender 395 stitches about 4 yards
- DMC 522 Fern Green 320 stitches about 4 yards
- DMC 909 Very Dark Emerald Green 228 stitches about 3 yards
- DMC 987 Dark Forest Green 201 stitches about 2 yards
- DMC 435 Very Light Brown 149 stitches about 2 yards
- DMC 208 Very Dark Lavender 145 stitches about 2 yards
16,900 stitches in the chart, about 166 yards in all. The yards are estimates for 13 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 13 mesh, the thread and needle chart gives 7 or 8 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 · 5 pages
- Chart for A4 paper PDF · 5 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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