Guide on how to embroider a Reindeer on a Wooden Board

You will need:

In general about cross stitch:

Start in the upper left corner of the pattern. Always embroider from left to right and from top to bottom.
Follow the pattern to see where to place the stitches in relation to each other.

Single cross stitch:

A cross stitch consists of a cross embroidered between four holes. Start by pulling the needle through from the back towards the front of the wooden board and through the bottom left corner of the four holes. Pull the thread diagonally towards the top right corner of the four holes. Insert the needle through there from front to back. Now stick the needle through from back to front again, this time in the bottom right corner of the cross stitch. Pull the thread from this corner and diagonally towards the top left corner and insert the needle through there from the front towards the back of the wooden board. You have now made a cross stitch.

Cross stitch in a row:

For example, if you have four cross stitches next to each other, you can make them consecutively. That means, you make the four diagonal stitches that go from the bottom left corner to the top right corner of each cross stitch. Make sure that each cross stitch overlaps, so that stitch number two starts in the hole just below the hole where the first cross stitch ended. Then embroider from right to left in the row and finish the row of cross stitches by making the opposite diagonal stitches so that they add up to four crosses.

Figure out where on the board to start to center the pattern. If necessary, make space for a name under the motif. Consider that the first cross stitches you make will fill two rows of holes. The next rows count as one row of holes, as they overlap with the previous row. Cut about half a yard of the brown embroidery thread and attach the needle. In this case, you will start with four brown cross stitches, so they are made as one row of cross stitches (see description above).

You have now finished the first row of cross stitches. Start the 2nd row of brown cross stitches, which consists of 8 cross stitches in the next row of holes on the wooden board.

You have now made the first two rows of brown cross stitch.

Now make the 3rd row of brown cross stitches. Here you will make both single cross stitches and cross stitches in a row (see description above).

Finish embroidering rows 4 and 5 of the brown cross stitches.

Now fasten your ends by pulling the needle a few times randomly through your stitches on the back of the wooden board. Cut off the ends.

Put black embroidery thread on your needle and figure out where to start embroidering the left antler.

Embroider one antler at a time - from the top down.

You are now done with the antlers and you can now pin your ends to the back. Cut off the ends.

Put red embroidery thread on your needle and embroider the last four cross stitches on the wooden board.

Reuse one of the cut pieces of embroidery thread as a hanging. Your wood panel pendant is now complete.

The wooden plaque can be used as a pendant for gifts, a Christmas tree decoration, a table decoration, a key ring and all sorts of other things.

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Have fun!

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