Kit calamita con perline «Buon anno 2»

“Happy New Year – 2” shows a gingerbread house under snow with a bullfinch perched beside it on a fir branch.

What the picture shows

The house stands in the centre: brown walls built from rows of dark beads, a roof worked in white, green, red and yellow like icing scattered with sweets, and a round window set in a beaded rim. On the right a bullfinch with a red breast sits on a bar of brown and red beads. Bottom left, a red flower with a golden bauble rests on fir twigs. The background is a snowy blue with large snowflakes in transparent and pale blue beads. The needles, the snow and the bird's plumage stay printed on the canvas; beads carry the roof, the walls, the window and the flakes. The roof is the most interesting part: rows of coloured beads run diagonally and give exactly that icing effect. The walls are filled in even rows from the top down, and the snowflakes are left until last.

What is in the kit

• Art canvas with a full-colour printed design — no need to follow a chart on a screen
• Czech Preciosa beads, 7 colours
• Beading needles
• Acrylic base and magnetic tape for finishing the piece
• Instructions and a finishing guide

Specifications

• Finished size: 80×70 mm (3.1×2.7 in)
• Beads used: approx. 345
• Bead colours: 7
• Base: art canvas
• Difficulty: simple

A magnet like this holds well on a fridge door next to the New Year cards. The acrylic base and magnetic tape needed for finishing are in the kit; the frame the piece is photographed in is bought separately.