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Preppy Santa face needlepoint pattern

Beginner · 7 colors · 4 × 4 in · 18 mesh

Shape: Its own border · Colors: Fair skinChange

Preppy Santa face, square: 72 by 72 stitches in tent stitch.

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Santa's face looks straight out under a red hat with a white band and a white pompom hanging at right, with black eyes, coral cheeks and a scalloped white beard. The ground is seafoam green inside a red and green checked border.

Size and details

The chart is 72 × 72 stitches: a square ornament on 18 mesh canvas.

Worked in tent stitch throughout.

Beginner: 7 colors. Changes of color are about 7 stitches apart, leaving out the border and the background around the picture. With up to 7 colors, 3.5 or more apart is Beginner and closer is Intermediate.

Shape and border

Colors

Sizes on each mesh
MeshStitched sizeCanvas to cut
107.2 × 7.2 in
18.3 × 18.3 cm		11.2 × 11.2 in
28.4 × 28.4 cm
126 × 6 in
15.2 × 15.2 cm		10 × 10 in
25.4 × 25.4 cm
135.5 × 5.5 in
14.1 × 14.1 cm		9.5 × 9.5 in
24.2 × 24.2 cm
145.1 × 5.1 in
13.1 × 13.1 cm		9.1 × 9.1 in
23.2 × 23.2 cm
184 × 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.

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Threads and canvas

Fair skin

  • DMC 959 Medium Seagreen 2,726 stitches about 19 yards
  • DMC 321 Red 1,358 stitches about 10 yards
  • DMC BLANC White 858 stitches about 6 yards
  • DMC 353 Peach 160 stitches about 2 yards
  • DMC 415 Pearl Gray 48 stitches about 1 yard
  • DMC 351 Coral 26 stitches about 1 yard
  • DMC 310 Black 8 stitches about 1 yard

5,184 stitches in the chart, about 40 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

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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