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Messi chibi-style, the head taking up more than half the picture: brown hair swept back with strands flying loose, a trimmed beard, big eyes and half a smile. Below it a tiny body in a blue and red striped shirt, the number 10 in white on the chest and another on the shorts, one hand on his hip and the ball tucked under the other arm.
It is 84 x 172 stitches, about 15 by 31 centimetres on 14-count, and two thirds of the cells carry a stitch: the rest is fabric, since the figure is cut out with no background. There are fifteen threads and none of them takes charge — the most used, the black, stays under fifteen per cent — but where the work sits certainly does: the face and hair take up more than half the pattern, and that is where nearly all of its 1,234 isolated stitches gather, one stitch in eight, among the strands and the beard. The shirt is the opposite: straight stripes you can work top to bottom without thinking, and the ball is done in no time.
Whole crosses throughout, no halves and no backstitch.
Chibi Lionel Messi
This pattern is free: open it, change it however you like and publish your version in the gallery, under your name.
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The numbers
Size by fabric count
| Count | Stitches/cm | The design | In inches | Fabric to buy * |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 ct | 4.3 | 19.4 x 39.7 cm | 7.6 x 15.6 in | 35 x 56 cm |
| 14 ct | 5.5 | 15.2 x 31.2 cm | 6.0 x 12.3 in | 31 x 47 cm |
| 16 ct | 6.3 | 13.3 x 27.3 cm | 5.3 x 10.8 in | 29 x 43 cm |
| 18 ct | 7.1 | 11.9 x 24.3 cm | 4.7 x 9.6 in | 28 x 40 cm |
| 20 ct | 7.9 | 10.7 x 21.8 cm | 4.2 x 8.6 in | 27 x 38 cm |
| 22 ct | 8.7 | 9.7 x 19.9 cm | 3.8 x 7.8 in | 26 x 36 cm |
* The fabric to buy allows 8 cm on each side for the hoop and the frame. The highlighted row is 14-count, the most common: the pattern has the same number of stitches on every fabric, what changes is how big each one is.
Suggested fabric: white.
The threads
| Thread | Stitches | Of the total | Skeins * |
|---|---|---|---|
| DMC 310 | 1,471 | 15.2 % | 1 |
| DMC 400 | 1,371 | 14.2 % | 1 |
| DMC 25 | 827 | 8.6 % | 1 |
| DMC 995 | 823 | 8.5 % | 1 |
| DMC 3825 | 805 | 8.3 % | 1 |
| DMC 951 | 702 | 7.3 % | 1 |
| DMC 407 | 681 | 7.0 % | 1 |
| DMC 945 | 482 | 5.0 % | 1 |
| DMC 606 | 439 | 4.5 % | 1 |
| DMC 921 | 409 | 4.2 % | 1 |
| DMC 451 | 361 | 3.7 % | 1 |
| DMC 721 | 344 | 3.6 % | 1 |
| DMC 349 | 337 | 3.5 % | 1 |
| DMC 722 | 317 | 3.3 % | 1 |
| DMC 796 | 298 | 3.1 % | 1 |
| 15 threads | 9,667 | 100 % | 15 skeins |
* The skeins are a guide: they assume about 1,700 stitches per skein with two strands on 14-count, rounded up. Finer thread goes further, doubled thread goes less far.
What this one asks of you
All 9,667 stitches are full cross stitch: no half stitches and no backstitch to follow.
It has 1,234 lone stitches, 12.8 % of the total, and 568 of those have no neighbour of their color at all. The more there are, the more the needle jumps.
