Stitch
of the Month
December 2002: Berryville Directions
Some notes about the charts:
- All charts show the lower right quadrant of the design.
- The perimeter of the Chilly Hollow stitch is represented by black or white circles.
- Previously placed stitches are represented by gray lines.
The Master Chart shows the placement of all stitches in the design. Click on the name of any stitch to see the detailed directions for executing that stitch.
1. Find
the center hole of your canvas and widen it with your needle. Work the Chilly
Hollow stitch using Watercolours, centering the stitch on the canvas.
The #1 point of the foundation of the stitch will be two threads below and two
threads to the left of the center hole.
2. Using Kreinik #8 braid and braided knitting stitch, work a square around the Chilly Hollow stitch, sharing holes at all four points of the Chilly Hollow stitch. The corners of the square are small Smyrna cross stitches. There is a pair of compensating stitches (red lines) at each end of each row of the braided knitting stitch.
| 3. Using Kreinik #8 braid, work pairs of Amadeus stitches in the corners of the center square. Notice that holes 2 and 13 are in the same hole (marked in red in the diagrams at right and below) for each side of the pair. |  |
4. Using pearl cotton Color A, fill the center of each Amadeus stitch with a padded Scotch stitch.
5. Leave one thread empty (red lines) outside the inner square and work a row of diamond Scotch stitches around the square, using pearl cotton Color A (black lines) for the outer stitches and pearl cotton Color B (white lines) for the inner stitches.
6. Leave a thread empty outside the row of diamond Scotch stitches, and work another row of braided knitting stitch in Kreinik #8 braid with Smyrna Cross stitches in the corners. This is exactly the same as Step 2, except larger.
7. Using Watercolours, work a Chilly Hollow stitch at each corner of the square you stitched in Step 6. Each corner of that square shares a hole with the center of one side of each Chilly Hollow stitch. However, you have to start in the center to work a Chilly Hollow stitch, so count down four diagonally from the corner of the square to start the 4 by 4 centered foundation of the Chilly Hollow stitch. The white lines in the diagram below represent the foundation of the Chilly Hollow stitch.
8. Using
Kreinik #8 braid, make a final square of braided knitting stitch around the
perimeter of the design, sharing holes with the points of the four Chilly Hollow
stitches. Again, you will have Smyrna crosses in the corner.
9. Between the corner Chilly Hollow stitches, fill the interior of the outer border between the Chilly Hollow stitches with giant four-way continental stitches. The stitches are over six threads, and are worked in pearl cotton Color B. Continue the pattern around the edges of the Chilly Hollow stitches and into the corners.
10. Fill the complete diamonds with medallion stitch, using pearl cotton Color B (white lines) for Layer 1, Kreinik #8 braid (red lines) for Layer 2, and pearl cotton Color A (black lines) for Layer 3. There will be half diamonds on the edges; these remain unstitched. See picture of piece if this is not clear to you.
11. Fill the centers of all five Chilly Hollow stitches with a cross stitch over four threads in Kreinik #8 braid (white lines) tied down by an upright cross over two threads in Color A pearl cotton (black lines).
12. To make the center Chilly Hollow stitch coordinate with the outer four, outline it in stitches over six threads using pearl cotton Color B.
13. Decorate the four corners with a padded giant Scotch stitch using pearl cotton Color B.
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