Redwork Christmas Cottage
Written and Designed by Janet M. Davies
This is a small Christmas wall hanging featuring a hand stitched cottage.

 

1. Trace the cottage design sized to 8cm (3 inches) square onto a plan fabric16cm (6 inches) square.

2. Stitch the red lines of the cottage with Backstitch and the gold lines with Stem stitch. Use 2 strands of red 6 stranded cotton or 1 strand of Pearl 8. Use 2 strands of gold stranded thread.

3. 1cm (1/4 inch) around the outer edge of the cottage pin a row of ric-rack and tack in place.

4. Sew gold beads onto the ric-rack as shown in photo and then remove tacking thread.

5.Cut strips of Christmas patterned fabric 4cm 1 1/2 inches wide and sew around the outside of the plain fabric.

6.Cut a piece of backing fabric the total size of your front panel.

7. The backing fabric and the front panel are then sewn right sides together leaving open a 5 cm (2 inch) area at the bottom to turn right sides of fabric outwards.

8. Turn the fabric the right sides outwards.

9.Cut a firm piece of wadding (needle punch) the same size as the finished fabric piece and insert between fabric layers. The wadding should be laid flat inside the whole fabric panel.

10. Sew closed the opening in the lower seam.

11. Sew red buttons around the edge of the fabric boarder using green thread.

12. Stitch a length of white ric-rac each end of the upper back of the hanging.

13. Sew red hanging buttons into the seam line from the bottom of the whole hanging using green cotton.

 
Save the line drawing to your computer and then put into a Word document and resize to 8cm (3 inches) square. The dashed lines are for the gold thread stitching.

Along the lower edge of the panel bring thread out of seam line and thread a button onto the thread, Then bring thread back up and attach back into the seam line.

If you don't want to remove your regular stitching from the walls; then thread a long strand of nylon thread to your Christmas hanging to make a large loop. Then place the nylon thread around your upper picture and the Christmas hanging sits in it's own wall space without having to put another hole in the wall to hang it.