A Peacock Cloth.
THE sight of these pretty peacocks makes you long to sit down and start working them, I am sure, and when worked on a square of white Hardanger canvas, they really make a most attractive little cloth or table-centre.
The cloth in the picture was about 12 inches square when hemmed, but you can make it just what size suits you best; this will, of course, greatly depend on what you want to use it for.
There is one thing, however, that you must be very careful about, and that is that your piece of material is perfectly square, and not wider one way than the other. Also be sure you allow about an extra 1½ inches all round to the size you want the cloth to be when finished, so that you can have a nice wide hem.
You must first hemstitch your cloth all round, and you learnt all about how to do this on [page 30].
You can count the squares in this Peacock with tail outspread.
The peacocks are worked in cross-stitch with J. & J. Baldwin’s Beehive Shetland Wool, in a crimson shade. If you are making your cloth out of Hardanger canvas, you will be able to work the crosses very easily. When working on the Hardanger canvas, you just make your crosses over three threads of the canvas each way.
