Kit de point de croix compté « Dans une moufle »

“In a mitten” shows a ginger owlet peeking out of a red mitten in the middle of a snowfall.

What the picture shows

The mitten stands in the centre in dense red, with a large pale blue snowflake on it and a light cuff. An owlet with feathered horns and green eyes looks out of it, one wing raised. The background is not solid: pale blue, pink and light green patches are scattered across the white canvas, with snowflakes laid over them, some of them worked in Preciosa beads. Twenty floss colours over 33 m of thread. The snowflake pattern on the mitten is the finest part of the drawing; everything else fills in large even patches.

What is in the kit

• Aida canvas, count 14, white
• Cotton floss, 20 colours, 33 m
• Tapestry needle
• Czech Preciosa seed beads No. 10 and a beading needle
• Embroidery hoop, 170 mm diameter, blue
• Symbol chart
• Step-by-step instructions

Specifications

• Design size: 150×150 mm (5.91×5.91 in)
• Base: Aida canvas, count 14, white
• Floss colours: 20
• Floss length: 33 m
• Difficulty: simple
• Technique: counted cross stitch

A 150×150 mm miniature, simple to stitch despite the number of shades. It is given at the winter holidays or kept at home — in a round hoop, in a frame or under glass; none of these finishes come with the kit. The beads work as hoarfrost here: they are sewn over the finished crosses once the main stitching is done.