23012 - Tulip Fields

It’s spring, with acres of colorful tulips blooming brilliantly under the sun. Nature’s color display is fleeting, but you can capture this colorful sight in canvas embroidery. Selected stitches and an interesting variety of silk, cotton, wool threads, and beads give a realistic illusion of perspective to this scene. Explore line and color, learn a technique for attaching beads to canvas, and enjoy a variety of stitches, including airplane, Colonial knot, double brick, French knot, Gobelin, lazy daisy, irregular running, tulip, upright cross, and wheat ear.

Proficiency Level: Intermediate

Design Size: 5˝ H x 7˝ W

Kit Fee/Contents: $60; line design drawn on Congress cloth, needles, silk, wool, overdyed cotton threads, seed beads, ribbon, color picture, and instructions.