Embroidery Project Packs: Dick

Description

The mallard is a duck that is found throughout the world either because it is indigenous or because it has been introduced.  It is a duck ripe for embroidery because of its unique and beautiful colouring.  This colourful project uses of a wide range of interesting techniques and stitches as under:

• 26 embroidery stitches/stitch variations
• 3 bead embroidery stitches
• 1 needle lace pattern
• 9 needle weaving patterns

Finished size is 290 x 290 mm, depending on whether or not you choose to add the background ripples in order to quilt the design.

                                                                                        

All of the stitches and techniques are to be found in the Crewel Birds book.  There are also detail instructions, often with the video clips, in the Resources area in the workroom.

Contents of the full kit are as under:

Print Pack

• There are no instructions in the kit.  Contractual obligations dictate that you need to own the book to gain access to the instructions.
• You can buy the South African edition of the book here.  World English editions are available at amazon.com.
• The line drawing of the design screen-printed onto 450 x 450 mm natural-coloured cotton linen blend backed with cotton voile
• The ink is indelible

Materials Pack :

Threads and Special Threads:

• 16 skeins of DMC stranded cotton, solid colours: 597,  598, 818, 911, 913, 954, 955, 3033, 3371, 3781, 3782, 3790, 3808, 3809, 3810, 3866,
• 3 skeins of DMC stranded cotton, variegated: 4030, 4150, 4501
• 16 bobbins of Presencia Finca perle #16: 1062, 1068, 1137, 3000, 3556, 3560, 3574, 3664, 3670, 4000, 4379, 5224, 5229, 8083, 8310, 8327

Miyuki Beads:

• 3 x 2 gram pack size 15° beads: 5F, 556, 2425

Preciosa Crystals:

• 1 x 5-pack 20ss Smoke Topaz AB

Needle Pack:

• 2 x size 7 embroidery needles
• 2 x size 10 embroidery needles
• 2 x size 26 tapestry needles
• 2 x size 11 bead embroidery needles

The original of this project was worked through batting.  If you choose to do the same thing, you will require 450 x 450 mm polyester batting.