Australian Homespun

A BASKET OF Wildflowers

MATERIALS

• Fat quarter cream linen
• 40cm (½yd) pink toneon-tone print fabric
• Fat quarter lightweight embroidery stabiliser
• Fat eighth fusible foam stabiliser (basket base)
• Fat eighth medium-weight fusible batting
• Fat sixteenth lightweight fusible batting
• Cosmo stranded embroidery floss in 433, 574, 653, 731, 764, 852, 853, 854, 924, 2013, 2037, 2118, 2212, 2222, 2762
• Embroidery needle
• Fine-pointed erasable fabric-marking pen or pencil
• Template plastic and fine permanent-marking pen
• Embroidery hoop (optional)
• General sewing supplies

Stitches used: Backstitch, chain stitch, detached chain (lazy daisy) stitch, French knot, satin stitch, stem stitch

Finished size: 12.5 × 23cm (5 × 9in) not including handles

Note: Read all the instructions before starting the project. Requirements are based on fabrics 107cm (42in) wide. Seam allowances of ½ in are used when  

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