Blackwork Pattern 701 from Bird Brain Designs Every Birdie

Blackwork Pattern 701 from Bird Brain Designs Every Birdie Designed by Robin Kingsley - New Never Used Designed by Robin Kingsley for Bird Brain Designs, this is a pattern 701 for "Every Birdie Blackwork". It was designed in Sampler Style with Sayings, Gardens, Flowers and Birds in bold blackwork. Copyright 2014 Robin Kingsley Materials Needed to Make the Designs: * DMC #8 Perle Cotton #310 Black - one ball needed * 3/4 yard tea-dyed cotton (enough for backings too) * 1/3 yard black daisy print for borders and binding * 4 neutral/tan prints, 12 x 22 inches each * black butterfly * thin quilt batting * sticky fabri-solvy or black pigma marker to transfer design * Perle cotton #4 embroidery needles * Morgan no-slip hoop 7 or 9 inches Blackwork, sometimes historically termed Spanish blackwork, is a form of embroidery generally worked in black thread, although other colors are also used on occasion, as in scarletwork, where the embroidery is worked in red thread. Originating in Tudor period England, blackwork typically, though not always, takes the form of a counted-thread embroidery, where the warp and weft yarns of a fabric are counted for the length of each stitch, producing uniform-length stitches and a precise pattern on an even-weave fabric. Blackwork may also take the form of free-stitch embroidery, where the yarns of a fabric are not counted while sewing.