Miscellaneous Magazine Designs: Autumn Mosaic Pillow

by Julia Lucas, from the September 2008 Cross Stitch and Needlework magazine

When I bought the magazine for Nora Corbett's second Halloween Fairy (aka Trick or Treat), I leafed through it and saw this beautiful design. It is a hardanger pillow, but it only uses woven bars, no dove's eye or spiderwebs or anything more complicated. I've done the woven bars before (on Butterfly Song), so I felt confident enough to attempt a slightly larger hardanger project. This is my first piece that uses DMC's Color Variations, both floss and #5 perle.

Finished as a pillow, February 28, 2009

All of the stitching complete

Cutting is done, ready to start woven bars

Mini Progress Pics