Cross Stitch Christmas Tree

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  Step 1

  Print out the chart and find the center. Fold your piece of aida vertically and horizontally to find the centre of that too, and make that your starting point. This ensures that you won't end up with lots of space on one side and run out of space on the other. I worked my way down, marking off with an orange marker on the chart as I went to keep track of my place.

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  Step 2

  Here all the green is completed! I was almost tempted to leave it like this, as a simple two-colour silhouette. But I wanted to see what it would look like completed so I went on...

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  Step 3

  Next I filled in all the red candles and followed that chart to add them on the branch tips as well.

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  Step 4

  Then I used yellow to add the star and the candle flames. The chart called for french knots but I substituted two short backstitches for each, you could also use a seed bead or even a spot of fabric paint.

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  Step 5

  Next I added the trunk, nice and quick bit to do.

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  Step 6

  Finally I backstitched the glows around the candle flames and the star. You might notice I deviated from the chart a bit and changed the glow around the star, I think it looks better this way so I edited the pattern file to be like this. I went all out and used a single strand of metallic gold Madeira thread, which gave it a lovely luxery Christmassy look :)

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