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A modern and colorful kitchen design featuring the word “kitchen” in several languages arranged in a dynamic typographic composition. Perfect for stitching as decoration and adding an original, cosmopolitan touch.
Kitchen collage in many languages
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 | 33.5 x 56.3 cm | 13.2 x 22.2 in | 49 x 72 cm |
| 14 ct | 5.5 | 26.3 x 44.3 cm | 10.4 x 17.4 in | 42 x 60 cm |
| 16 ct | 6.3 | 23.0 x 38.7 cm | 9.1 x 15.3 in | 39 x 55 cm |
| 18 ct | 7.1 | 20.5 x 34.4 cm | 8.1 x 13.6 in | 36 x 50 cm |
| 20 ct | 7.9 | 18.4 x 31.0 cm | 7.3 x 12.2 in | 34 x 47 cm |
| 22 ct | 8.7 | 16.7 x 28.2 cm | 6.6 x 11.1 in | 33 x 44 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 606 | 4,376 | 20.7 % | 3 |
| DMC 995 | 4,024 | 19.0 % | 3 |
| DMC BLANC | 3,019 | 14.3 % | 2 |
| DMC 906 | 2,711 | 12.8 % | 2 |
| DMC 155 | 2,685 | 12.7 % | 2 |
| DMC 740 | 1,814 | 8.6 % | 2 |
| DMC 3844 | 1,290 | 6.1 % | 1 |
| DMC 972 | 1,208 | 5.7 % | 1 |
| 8 threads | 21,127 | 100 % | 16 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 21,127 stitches are full cross stitch: no half stitches and no backstitch to follow.
It has 384 lone stitches, 1.8 % of the total, and 212 of those have no neighbour of their color at all. The more there are, the more the needle jumps.
