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Victorian pansy bouquet pillow needlepoint pattern

Advanced · 17 colors · 10 × 10 in · 13 mesh

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Victorian pansy bouquet pillow: 130 by 130 stitches in tent stitch.

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Seven pansies stand in a bunch, four lilac with purple upper petals and three yellow with gold, all with dark purple whiskered faces. Green leaves spread at the sides and a blue bow ties the stems on a black ground.

Size and details

The chart is 130 × 130 stitches: a pillow on 13 mesh canvas.

Worked in tent stitch throughout.

Advanced: 17 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.

Colors

Purple and gold pansies on black

Sizes on each mesh
MeshStitched sizeCanvas to cut
1013 × 13 in
33 × 33 cm		17 × 17 in
43.2 × 43.2 cm
1210.8 × 10.8 in
27.5 × 27.5 cm		14.8 × 14.8 in
37.7 × 37.7 cm
1310 × 10 in
25.4 × 25.4 cm		14 × 14 in
35.6 × 35.6 cm
149.3 × 9.3 in
23.6 × 23.6 cm		13.3 × 13.3 in
33.7 × 33.7 cm
187.2 × 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.

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Threads and canvas

Purple and gold pansies on black

  • DMC 310 Black 12,134 stitches about 115 yards
  • DMC 987 Dark Forest Green 753 stitches about 8 yards
  • DMC 210 Medium Lavender 691 stitches about 7 yards
  • DMC 728 Topaz 521 stitches about 5 yards
  • DMC 550 Very Dark Violet 463 stitches about 5 yards
  • DMC 798 Dark Delft Blue 249 stitches about 3 yards
  • DMC 3837 Ultra Dark Lavender 234 stitches about 3 yards
  • DMC 522 Fern Green 227 stitches about 3 yards
  • DMC 890 Ultra Dark Pistachio Green 216 stitches about 3 yards
  • DMC 783 Medium Topaz 211 stitches about 2 yards
  • DMC 211 Light Lavender 210 stitches about 2 yards
  • DMC 3011 Dark Khaki Green 209 stitches about 2 yards
  • DMC 208 Very Dark Lavender 197 stitches about 2 yards
  • DMC 782 Dark Topaz 175 stitches about 2 yards
  • DMC 745 Light Pale Yellow 157 stitches about 2 yards
  • DMC 809 Delft Blue 142 stitches about 2 yards
  • DMC 797 Royal Blue 111 stitches about 2 yards

16,900 stitches in the chart, about 168 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

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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