Emblemas / EmblemsThe head of the bald eagle with the flag behind it, and the flag inside it too: the neck feathers are painted with the same reds, whites and blues as the stripes. It is 126 x 126 stitches — square, which is rare in the Collection — and 18 colors, about 23 by 23 centimetres on 14-count.
It is the most demanding piece in this family: no fabric shows anywhere, there are 15,876 stitches, and one in ten has no neighbour of its own colour, so it goes slowly and with the chart close by. And if you want to make it easier, that is what free is for: it carries six different blues, and of those, DMC 3844 and DMC 995 are hard to tell apart. The 3844 appears only 440 times and nearly always on its own, so moving it to the 995 saves you a thread and some hundred and fifty isolated stitches with almost no loss.
American Eagle
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 | 29.1 x 29.1 cm | 11.5 x 11.5 in | 45 x 45 cm |
| 14 ct | 5.5 | 22.9 x 22.9 cm | 9.0 x 9.0 in | 39 x 39 cm |
| 16 ct | 6.3 | 20.0 x 20.0 cm | 7.9 x 7.9 in | 36 x 36 cm |
| 18 ct | 7.1 | 17.8 x 17.8 cm | 7.0 x 7.0 in | 34 x 34 cm |
| 20 ct | 7.9 | 16.0 x 16.0 cm | 6.3 x 6.3 in | 32 x 32 cm |
| 22 ct | 8.7 | 14.5 x 14.5 cm | 5.7 x 5.7 in | 31 x 31 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 995 | 2,845 | 17.9 % | 2 |
| DMC 666 | 2,237 | 14.1 % | 2 |
| DMC 3865 | 1,842 | 11.6 % | 2 |
| DMC 3842 | 1,832 | 11.5 % | 2 |
| DMC 746 | 1,341 | 8.4 % | 1 |
| DMC 310 | 985 | 6.2 % | 1 |
| DMC 747 | 949 | 6.0 % | 1 |
| DMC 444 | 688 | 4.3 % | 1 |
| DMC 3845 | 498 | 3.1 % | 1 |
| DMC 347 | 444 | 2.8 % | 1 |
| DMC 3844 | 440 | 2.8 % | 1 |
| DMC 498 | 374 | 2.4 % | 1 |
| DMC 946 | 299 | 1.9 % | 1 |
| DMC 608 | 267 | 1.7 % | 1 |
| DMC 741 | 220 | 1.4 % | 1 |
| DMC 3325 | 219 | 1.4 % | 1 |
| DMC 740 | 203 | 1.3 % | 1 |
| DMC 972 | 193 | 1.2 % | 1 |
| 18 threads | 15,876 | 100 % | 22 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 15,876 stitches are full cross stitch: no half stitches and no backstitch to follow.
It has 1,615 lone stitches, 10.2 % of the total, and 844 of those have no neighbour of their color at all. The more there are, the more the needle jumps.
