Nutcracker Sweet Cross Stitch Pattern

Nutcracker Sweet Cross Stitch PatternMy little girl will be going to a new ballet school this year, and they do The Nutcracker every December. Normally we see it in the big, fancy theater downtown, but I think that no matter where you can catch a performance or how small the dancers, it is always just a magical part of the holiday season. This piece is stitched on 32 count linen (that's 16 stitches per inch) with two plies of DMC six ply cotton embroidery floss. Finished size of design

and four 8mm jump rings

and over the next sixteen years (until her eyesight failed at age eighty-eight) created over one thousand botanically accurate paper flowers

Seven ¼” (6mm) buttons

It is stitched on 28-count Cashel linen made by the Zweigart company in Germany

you can make a dressed-up Dandelion of your very own

This past summer

this kit includes:

It makes a nice

you can make a dressed-up Phyllis of your very own

removable moccasins

My advice is to find a tee shirt in your closet that you like the fit of and compare it to the listed measurements in my size chart

And bathed every veyne in swich licour