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A collage of beer words: BEER in huge letters in the middle and, around it, LAGER, ALE, IPA, STOUT, PILSNER, PORTER, MALT, HOPS, BARLEY, DRAFT, FOAM, CRAFT and CHEERS twice. In between, a foaming mug, a barrel, a bottle cap, barley ears and a hop cone. It is 143 x 193 stitches in 7 colors, about 26 by 35 centimetres on 14-count.
The seven threads are beer's own range: from the cream of the foam to the near-black brown of a stout, by way of amber and gold. And it stitches like a poster: more than half the fabric stays bare, the letters are solid blocks, and in the whole piece there are not even forty isolated stitches. For a bar, a kitchen, or the corner of someone who brews their own.
Beer collage
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The numbers
Size by fabric count
| Count | Stitches/cm | The design | In inches | Fabric to buy * |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 11 ct | 4.3 | 33.0 x 44.6 cm | 13.0 x 17.5 in | 49 x 61 cm |
| 14 ct | 5.5 | 25.9 x 35.0 cm | 10.2 x 13.8 in | 42 x 51 cm |
| 16 ct | 6.3 | 22.7 x 30.6 cm | 8.9 x 12.1 in | 39 x 47 cm |
| 18 ct | 7.1 | 20.2 x 27.2 cm | 7.9 x 10.7 in | 36 x 43 cm |
| 20 ct | 7.9 | 18.2 x 24.5 cm | 7.2 x 9.7 in | 34 x 41 cm |
| 22 ct | 8.7 | 16.5 x 22.3 cm | 6.5 x 8.8 in | 33 x 38 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 938 | 5,037 | 40.4 % | 3 |
| DMC 3853 | 2,309 | 18.5 % | 2 |
| DMC 3852 | 1,544 | 12.4 % | 1 |
| DMC 976 | 1,380 | 11.1 % | 1 |
| DMC 10 | 812 | 6.5 % | 1 |
| DMC 741 | 714 | 5.7 % | 1 |
| DMC 921 | 657 | 5.3 % | 1 |
| 7 threads | 12,453 | 100 % | 10 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 12,453 stitches are full cross stitch: no half stitches and no backstitch to follow.
It has 39 lone stitches, 0.3 % of the total, and 3 of those have no neighbour of their color at all. The more there are, the more the needle jumps.
