Victorian pansy wreath pillow needlepoint pattern
Intermediate · 15 colors · 10 × 10 in · 13 mesh
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Four pansies ring a wreath of light brown stem set with green leaves, a lilac one with dark purple upper petals at the top and at the bottom and a yellow and gold one at each side. The ground is black with no border.
Size and details
The chart is 130 × 130 stitches: a pillow on 13 mesh canvas.
Worked in tent stitch throughout.
Intermediate: 15 colors. Changes of color are about 5.3 stitches apart, leaving out the background around the picture. With 10 colors or more, 4.5 or more apart is Intermediate, closer is Advanced, and a design with this many colors is never Beginner.
Colors
Purple and gold pansies on black
| 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 and gold pansies on black
- DMC 310 Black 11,744 stitches about 112 yards
- DMC 728 Topaz 630 stitches about 6 yards
- DMC 210 Medium Lavender 628 stitches about 6 yards
- DMC 435 Very Light Brown 465 stitches about 5 yards
- DMC 987 Dark Forest Green 455 stitches about 5 yards
- DMC 3011 Dark Khaki Green 448 stitches about 5 yards
- DMC 522 Fern Green 448 stitches about 5 yards
- DMC 909 Very Dark Emerald Green 444 stitches about 5 yards
- DMC 550 Very Dark Violet 421 stitches about 4 yards
- DMC 782 Dark Topaz 234 stitches about 3 yards
- DMC 3837 Ultra Dark Lavender 234 stitches about 3 yards
- DMC 783 Medium Topaz 224 stitches about 3 yards
- DMC 211 Light Lavender 182 stitches about 2 yards
- DMC 745 Light Pale Yellow 181 stitches about 2 yards
- DMC 208 Very Dark Lavender 162 stitches about 2 yards
16,900 stitches in the chart, about 168 yards in all. The yards are estimates for 13 mesh.
Purple and gold pansies on cream
- DMC ECRU Ecru 11,744 stitches about 112 yards
- DMC 433 Medium Brown 699 stitches about 7 yards
- DMC 783 Medium Topaz 694 stitches about 7 yards
- DMC 553 Violet 628 stitches about 6 yards
- DMC 987 Dark Forest Green 455 stitches about 5 yards
- DMC 3011 Dark Khaki Green 448 stitches about 5 yards
- DMC 522 Fern Green 448 stitches about 5 yards
- DMC 890 Ultra Dark Pistachio Green 444 stitches about 5 yards
- DMC 550 Very Dark Violet 421 stitches about 4 yards
- DMC 3837 Ultra Dark Lavender 234 stitches about 3 yards
- DMC 210 Medium Lavender 182 stitches about 2 yards
- DMC 726 Light Topaz 181 stitches about 2 yards
- DMC 208 Very Dark Lavender 162 stitches about 2 yards
- DMC 782 Dark Topaz 160 stitches about 2 yards
16,900 stitches in the chart, about 167 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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