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Shoo fly quilt pillow needlepoint pattern

Beginner · 2 colors · 12 × 12 in · 13 mesh

Colors: Navy and whiteChange

Shoo fly quilt pillow: 156 by 156 stitches in tent stitch.

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Nine navy and white quilt blocks are set three by three inside a narrow navy border. Each block is a navy square with a navy triangle off each of its four corners, the block known as Shoo Fly.

Size and details

The chart is 156 × 156 stitches: a pillow on 13 mesh canvas.

Worked in tent stitch throughout.

Beginner: 2 colors. Changes of color are about 15 stitches apart, leaving out the border. With up to 7 colors, 3.5 or more apart is Beginner and closer is Intermediate.

Colors

Sizes on each mesh
MeshStitched sizeCanvas to cut
1015.6 × 15.6 in
39.6 × 39.6 cm		19.6 × 19.6 in
49.8 × 49.8 cm
1213 × 13 in
33 × 33 cm		17 × 17 in
43.2 × 43.2 cm
1312 × 12 in
30.5 × 30.5 cm		16 × 16 in
40.6 × 40.6 cm
1411.1 × 11.1 in
28.3 × 28.3 cm		15.1 × 15.1 in
38.5 × 38.5 cm
188.7 × 8.7 in
22 × 22 cm		12.7 × 12.7 in
32.2 × 32.2 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

Navy and white

  • DMC BLANC White 15,904 stitches about 151 yards
  • DMC 823 Dark Navy Blue 8,432 stitches about 80 yards

24,336 stitches in the chart, about 231 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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