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A ptarmigan rests partly behind snow below two heather flower heads. This downloadable embroidery pattern keeps pale plumage and drifts in separate fields, with dark tail tips and a small red eyebrow beside them.
How can the white bird stay distinct from the snow?
The feather fields and snow territories have different mapped directions and boundaries. The dark tail tips and small eyebrow also remain separate from the pale body and drifts.
Cloth and thread choices
Suggested fabric: blue-violet linen. The palette proposes 16 DMC shades for stranded cotton. Supply your own needles, hoop or frame and a transfer method suitable for the cloth. Test the transfer and physical thread colours on a small swatch first.
The scene in detail
Ptarmigan Beneath the Wind Carved Heather is built from small differences within pale surfaces. Work the heather and rock structure, then distinguish white plumage from snow through the direction and spacing of the cotton shading.
Stitch direction and shading
The guide maps 12 working regions with local stitch direction, strand count and DMC colour recipes. Use the region key and recommended sequence to follow the overlaps and changes in shading. Mapped techniques include split axes, broken directional long-and-short, fine split stems.
Files supplied
The package contains the 16-page Stitch Guide PDF, a full-size A3 transfer PDF, SVG linework, white and transparent 600 dpi linework PNGs, a colour reference JPG, the thread-and-region CSV, READ_ME instructions and the Hand Embroidery Stitch Sampler, Essential Needlework Handbook PDF.
Canvas dimensions and printing
Artwork canvas: 232 x 300 mm, portrait, including the open background areas. Print the separate A3 transfer at Actual Size / 100% and check the 50 mm control bar. Guide previews are reduced. These are canvas dimensions, not a finished hoop, cushion or bag size. The Stitch Guide itself uses US Letter pages.
Download format and licence
Digital files only. No fabric, thread, tools or finished embroidery is supplied. Colour references and lifestyle mockups show design and presentation ideas. For personal, non-commercial use. Do not share, redistribute or resell the digital files.
