Wedding needlepoint patterns

Wedding designs, among them rings, cakes, bells, brides and grooms, arches, dresses and suits on hangers, buttonhole flowers, pearls and church doors.

The others include a getaway car, a ring in a box, bouquets, doves, a country church, a gazebo, gloves and wedding flowers such as orange blossom and lily of the valley. The couples are a bride and groom, two brides and two grooms. All are four inches square on 18 mesh, and many can be made round. A wedding piece usually has a date to meet. Finishing, the making up of the stitched piece into an ornament, a pillow or a framed picture, takes time on top of the stitching, whether you do it yourself or send it out, so decide how the piece will be finished before you begin, and ask a finisher early.