ONL 188

This is a “big” design again – 355 x 355 stitches !

You will have it all – typically Roman gardens, seen in birds’ view – important buildings of the eternal city – beautiful quotes of Roman mosaics, which have been excavated over the centuries. Some nature – some city – some “today” and some history – all blended together with a kaleidoscope design – a typical Châtelaine Mandala! Lots of tiny details, and all the octagon and square gardens will have the same layout, but… differently chosen threads and braids. So you won’t be bored whilst repeating these patterns 🙂

Choose the color of your fabric

Click on the colors below to see a preview of this design on different fabric background colors you might consider. For more options please visit The Design and Fabric Viewer.

Many different threads will be chosen, plain DMC cotton as well as variegated silks, different weights of threads, perles, braids… and of course beads, crystals, Tila beads – all the stuff, which makes a stitcher happy !

We will use cross stitch over two and – here and there, “over one” too. And Special Stitches galore to add dimension and interest to the piece !

I added an over-two charted Lupa to the files, but please be aware, that this will not at all be as smoothly detailed as the over-one version !

Lupa “over two”

For the irregularly shaped center you will receive an extra col. chart so you do not have to cut & paste there but can stitch along…

Size: The mere design is 355 x 355 stitches

Recommended Fabric: This design is meant for 14/28 count fabric due to the over-one portions and the tila beads. You could select cream, light blue, white, pastel green…

Materials: Cloudy Sky, Coral Sea and Persian Jade by Dinky Dye Silks, Antique Gold Dust and Robin’s Egg by Gloriana, sparkling Treasure Braids… hundreds of shimmering delicas in so many colors… bugle beads, tila beads You can review the material list here before starting.