Cutwork
Monica Ferris

Click on the image above to view the fullsize pattern and print it out. You can resize it in your printer settings or take the printout to a copy shop to have it enlarged. Tape the copy to a window, then tape a piece of white cloth over the copy. Trace the pattern onto the cloth, using a soft pencil or some other marker that will wash out. If you will be using the cloth as a handkerchief or napkin, hem it. Using buttonhole stitch, stitch around all the edges of the leaves and flowers, paying partiuclar attention to the outside edges and the lines surrounding spaces marked with a small x. Traditionally, cutwork is stitched with white thread or white fabric. Use small beads or French knots for the centers of the flowers. Cut out the segments marked with an x. The pattern may be cut out entirely and applied to a dress or blouse.

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After an artisan is murdered at the Excelsior, Minnesota, art fair, everyone is on pins and needles. It's up to needlework shop owner Betsy Devonshire to figure out who had designs on the dead designer.

Berkley (Prime Crime), January 2004
Featuring: Betsy Devonshire
272 pages ISBN: 0425193896
Paperback
$6.99

Also by Monica Ferris:
Crewel Yule, October 2004
Hanging by a Thread, January 2003
A Murderous Yarn, March 2002
Unraveled Sleeve, July 2001
A Stitch in Time, July 2000
Framed in Lace, October 1999
Crewel World, March 1999

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