#christmas embroidery

Merry Christmas season everyone!  Unfortunately I didn’t get around to doing much Christmas crafting this year.  However, I did manage to come up with at least one project.  This is an 18x28″ red cloth.  It just so happened on Facebook one day in my “memories” news feed a very old Ukrainian art pic of a deer showed up.  “Wow” I thought, that would make a perfect Christmas project.  So off to amazing land I went.  I popped the pic into my favorite website blockposters.com and made it super big to fit my cloth.  Then I taped those 4 sheets of paper together and traced the whole thing onto tissue paper which I then attached to my cloth.  The whole thing is nothing but chain stitch done with white Pearl thread (a little thicker than your typical DMC thread).  Unfortunately I didn’t note the entire name of the artist on the original pic I had.  I just have “Panchenko”  so if you’re Ukrainian and you know the artist, please do let me know so I can give their full name.  The pic was from a very old book printed in Soviet times.  I think it will make a lovely addition to my Christmas table.