Eleven Pipers Piping and Twelve Drummers Drumming Christmas Needlepoint
By: Peggy Bond
Day 11, Eleven Pipers Piping
The Day 11 and 12 blocks have many of the same stitches used in the previous one. The Shingle Stitch background – my favorite – also reappears.
Eleven Pipers Piping Christmas Needlepoint
Day 12, Twelve Drummers Drumming
The background for the drum is a new one – Marble Inlay which is diagramed below.
Twelve Drummers Drumming Christmas Needlepoint
The Marble Inlay stitch was patterned from a 14th century Italian marble mosaic at the Victoria and Albert Museum in London and in the Baptistry of the Cathedral in Florence.
Done at last! On to finishing touches…
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