Emblemas / EmblemsLuleå, in the north of Sweden, in the depths of winter: the red-brick cathedral with its green spire, fir trees heavy with snow, the frozen sea broken into floes, a red boat moored at the quay, coloured houses in the background and a low winter sun. Underneath, LULEÅ and SWEDEN. It is 163 x 203 stitches in 10 colors, about 30 by 37 centimetres on 14-count.
More than four in ten of the stitches are snow: over ten thousand of them, all in white. If you stitch it on white fabric, you can leave those areas bare; the texture changes a little, but the picture reads just the same, because the blues still outline every sheet of ice. The pattern is free, so that choice is yours.
Luleå, Sweden
This pattern is free: open it, change it however you like and publish your version in the gallery, under your name.
Files open with the Puntotek app.
The numbers
Size by fabric count
| Count | Stitches/cm | The design | In inches | Fabric to buy * |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 ct | 4.3 | 37.6 x 46.9 cm | 14.8 x 18.5 in | 54 x 63 cm |
| 14 ct | 5.5 | 29.6 x 36.8 cm | 11.6 x 14.5 in | 46 x 53 cm |
| 16 ct | 6.3 | 25.9 x 32.2 cm | 10.2 x 12.7 in | 42 x 48 cm |
| 18 ct | 7.1 | 23.0 x 28.6 cm | 9.1 x 11.3 in | 39 x 45 cm |
| 20 ct | 7.9 | 20.7 x 25.8 cm | 8.2 x 10.2 in | 37 x 42 cm |
| 22 ct | 8.7 | 18.8 x 23.4 cm | 7.4 x 9.2 in | 35 x 39 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 BLANC | 10,273 | 43.3 % | 7 |
| DMC 3844 | 2,976 | 12.6 % | 2 |
| DMC 972 | 2,386 | 10.1 % | 2 |
| DMC 909 | 2,109 | 8.9 % | 2 |
| DMC 747 | 1,693 | 7.1 % | 1 |
| DMC 721 | 1,553 | 6.6 % | 1 |
| DMC 995 | 1,094 | 4.6 % | 1 |
| DMC 3761 | 793 | 3.3 % | 1 |
| DMC 349 | 486 | 2.1 % | 1 |
| DMC 924 | 342 | 1.4 % | 1 |
| 10 threads | 23,705 | 100 % | 19 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 23,705 stitches are full cross stitch: no half stitches and no backstitch to follow.
It has 69 lone stitches, 0.3 % of the total, and 35 of those have no neighbour of their color at all. The more there are, the more the needle jumps.
