I made the design for this pillow on a hot summer day. Yet, the pillow was intended as a “winter’s tale”, accompanied by ice lanterns in the snow. I’m very pleased with the result!

Made with a double thread on linen – 8 threads/cm. Size about 22 x 22 cm.

I converted the knitting technique to a cross stitch pattern. It took some time, but it was fun to do. It would have been so much faster to just knit the pillow!

A day in March, 2009…

Long brush strokes using acrylic paint, transformed into a cross stitch pattern. The table runner has brush stroke and tulip patterns.

The coarse linen suits this pattern fine I think. The patterns was drawn on my computer using DMC Cross Stitch Pattern Designer.