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C AT IN B ASKET PIN

BASE:

18 X 18 HOLES

Materials needed:

• QuickCount® 10-count plastic canvas by Uniek

• Kreinik 1/8” Ribbon in 152V Vintage Sienna, 008C Green

• DMC embroidery floss in White, 310 Black, 3822 Light Straw, 3852 Very

Dark Straw

• Fabri-Tac™ Permanent Adhesive by Beacon™

• Scissors

• Plastic canvas needle (No. 18)

• Backing material such as fabric, perforated paper, card stock

• Pinback

BACKGROUND:

16 X 16 HOLES

Fill in completely

with continental

stitches

Instructions:

1. Cut canvas according to graphs, and as follows:

BASE: 18 x 18 holes

BASKET: 11 x 17 holes

BACKGROUND: 16 x 16 holes

BASKET HANDLE: 20 x 1 holes

KITTEN’S HEAD: 7 X 7 holes

KITTEN’S PAWS: (2) 3 x 3 holes

2. Using Vintage Sienna 1/8” Ribbon, work background piece in continen-

tal stitches. Overcast the edges with Vintage Sienna.

HANDLE: 20 X 1 HOLES

3. Using six strands of Lt Straw DMC floss, work the basket in smyrna

cross stitches. Add Kreinik Green 1/8” Ribbon in condensed mosaic stitches

to basket. Overcast edges of the basket with 6 strands of Very Dark

Straw, add straight stitches to define squares on the basket.

4. Work the kitten’s head and paws in six strands of white DMC floss in

cross stitches. Overcast the edges of the kitten's head and paws with six

strands of white DMC floss. Using six strands of Black DMC floss, back-

stitch the eyes, nose and mouth on the kitten’s head. Tack the kitten’s paws

to the top corners of the basket with three strands of white floss, the kit-

ten’s head to the top center of the basket with white floss.

BASKET: 11 X 7 HOLES

3822 Smyrna stitch

008C Mosaic stitch

3852 Straight stitch

5. Holding background piece like a diamond, tack the bottom of the bas-

ket to the bottom of the background, 5/8” from the bottom with 3 strands

of Very Dark Straw DMC floss. Tack the sides of the kitten’s head to the

background with three strands of white floss.

PAWS: cut 2, 3 X 3 HOLES

6. Using three strands of Very Dark Straw DMC floss, tack the short

ends of the basket handle to the background at the sides of the top of the

basket. Tack the top center of the basket handle to the background with

the kitten’s head in front of the basket handle.

HEAD:

7 X 7

HOLES

7. Using Vintage Sienna 1/8” Ribbon, whipstitch background to unstitched

base, leaving one hole around all edges.

8. Overcast edges of base with six strands of Light Straw DMC floss.

9. Cut six 1/4” single strands of Black DMC floss for the kitten’s head for whiskers. Glue three

strands on each side of the kitten’s nose. Using the remaining amount of Green 1/8” Ribbon, wind rib-

bon tightly to form a 1/2” ball of “yarn.” Leave at least a 3-inch tail. Add some glue to the green ball

and rub around to hold. Add more glue, and tack ball to the bottom corner of the background below the

basket. Wind the tail of the ribbon to make a loop and tack the tail to the back of the paw on the left

side of the basket. Trim the end of the ribbon 1/2-inch above the paw.

10. Glue backing material to back of pin. Glue pinback to center of backing material.

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