Free cross stitch 2nd birthday card
Here’s the next birthday pattern in the series. FREE cross stitch 2nd birthday card PDF Pattern.
Again you can change the colours to suit your on personal tastes or whatever you have available in your stash.
Just click on the button to download the free printable PDF pattern.
Pattern dimensions
- Stitch Count: 30w x 30h
- Finished Size: 5.44 cm x 5.44 cm (14 ct./inch)
- Cloth: Aida
- Cloth’s Color: White
- of colors: 6 Colors
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New to cross stitch?
Find everything you need in my beginners guide to cross stitch and 7 ways to master embroidery. Plus find lots of other great free charts on my cross stitch patterns page.
Buy the kit to get stitching!
You will need:
- Embroidery scissors,
- DMC or Anchor threads,
- Embroidery hoop,
- Embroidery needles,
- 14 Count Aida fabric
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How to start the 2nd birthday card
If you've never stitched before, then read through these simple instructions to help you stitch the second birthday cross stitch embroidery pattern
Materials
- 14 count white aida
- DMC embroidery threads -
- 704 (170 ct)
- 726 (62 ct)
- 3844 (48 ct)
- 321 (104 ct)
- 740 (116 ct)
- Backstitch
- 310 (49 ct)
Tools
- 2nd birthday card Pattern
- Embroidery needle
- Embroidery hoop
- Embroidery scissors
- Optional - a thimble
Instructions
- Start by printing off your pattern and checking it's dimensions
- Cut the fabric to larger than the pattern dimensions and your hoop size
- Fold the fabric into quarter to identify the centre
- fit in your hoop
- Tighten the hoop to secure the fabric
- Find the centre of your pattern and the centre of your fabric design
- Start stitching from the centre
- Cut a length of embroidery floss no longer than the length of your arm
- Separate it into one strand and keep the remaining five for later
- Double the thread and thread your needle
- Start stitching from the front of your fabric, leaving a loop to thread your needle through on the first stitch to secure. Tug so that it moves to the back.
- Work your stitches all the in same direction, the bottom of the cross should always be the same in every stitch.
- Work in either individual crosses or for longer areas of stitch work the bottom arm of the cross stitch in a row and then stitch back over the row to do the top arm of the cross.
- To finish, ensure the needle is on the back of the fabric. Thread it through the underside of a few stitches and then snip off the loose end.
- Once you have stitched all the cross stitch sections of the design.
- Finish with back stitch in a single thread.
- To make the pattern into a card.
- Trim the aida down to four rows out on each side
- Then gently pull out the threads of each side for two rows to fringe the fabric.
- Then use double sided tape to stictk to the front of a white square card.
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