Embroidery Project Packs: Kevin

Description

This project is based on the traditional Chinese depiction of a pheasant, a bird often interchanged with the phoenix as an emblem of beauty and good fortune in Chinese culture.  

This colourful project uses of a wide range of interesting techniques and stitches as under:

• 32 embroidery stitches/stitch variations
• 5 bead embroidery stitches
• 2 needle weaving patterns

Finished size is 310 x 280 mm

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 of an off-white cotton linen blend backed with cotton voile
• The ink is indelible

Materials Pack :

Threads and Special Threads:

• 32 skeins of DMC stranded cotton, solid colours: 5, 6, 7, 8, 13, 19, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 340, 341, 601, 603, 604, 746, 911, 913, 954, 955, 962, 3021, 3716, 3746, 3805, 3806, 3823, 3854, 3855, 3865
• 2 bobbins of DMC Special Dentelles #80 thread: 369, 954
• 5 bobbins of DMC perle #12: Ecru, 437, 842
• 3 bobbins of Presencia Finca perle #12: 8026, 8080
• 2 bobbins of Madeira Glamour #12 thread: 3037, 3229

Miyuki Beads:

• 4 x 2 gram packs size 15° beads: 4238, 4247, 4248, 4250

Preciosa Glass Pearls :

• 1 gram cream 2 mm glass pearls

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.