Emblemas / EmblemsIreland on a single sheet: the green hills, the cliffs dropping into the sea, one of those round towers from the old monasteries with its chapel beside it, the sun and, in the middle, the harp, the national emblem, surrounded by shamrocks. Underneath, IRELAND in green and ÉIRE, its name in Irish. It is 117 x 164 stitches in 11 colors, about 21 by 30 centimetres on 14-count.
They say Ireland has forty shades of green; five of them fit in here, and the letters of IRELAND shade from dark to light. Sort them out well before you start, because from a distance they are easy to mix up. Otherwise it is a rewarding one: almost no isolated stitches.
Essential Ireland
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The numbers
Size by fabric count
| Count | Stitches/cm | The design | In inches | Fabric to buy * |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 ct | 4.3 | 27.0 x 37.9 cm | 10.6 x 14.9 in | 43 x 54 cm |
| 14 ct | 5.5 | 21.2 x 29.8 cm | 8.4 x 11.7 in | 37 x 46 cm |
| 16 ct | 6.3 | 18.6 x 26.0 cm | 7.3 x 10.3 in | 35 x 42 cm |
| 18 ct | 7.1 | 16.5 x 23.1 cm | 6.5 x 9.1 in | 33 x 39 cm |
| 20 ct | 7.9 | 14.9 x 20.8 cm | 5.9 x 8.2 in | 31 x 37 cm |
| 22 ct | 8.7 | 13.5 x 18.9 cm | 5.3 x 7.5 in | 30 x 35 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 909 | 3,652 | 33.1 % | 3 |
| DMC 907 | 1,548 | 14.0 % | 1 |
| DMC 701 | 1,348 | 12.2 % | 1 |
| DMC 906 | 1,045 | 9.5 % | 1 |
| DMC 3844 | 800 | 7.3 % | 1 |
| DMC 700 | 763 | 6.9 % | 1 |
| DMC BLANC | 712 | 6.5 % | 1 |
| DMC 444 | 617 | 5.6 % | 1 |
| DMC 04 | 240 | 2.2 % | 1 |
| DMC 972 | 203 | 1.8 % | 1 |
| DMC 3852 | 100 | 0.9 % | 1 |
| 11 threads | 11,028 | 100 % | 13 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 11,028 stitches are full cross stitch: no half stitches and no backstitch to follow.
It has 49 lone stitches, 0.4 % of the total, and 0 of those have no neighbour of their color at all. The more there are, the more the needle jumps.
