use as a pattern, let me know.
The background color prints a little greener than it looks here - a soft seafoam. ___Multi-purpose cross-stitch embroidery pattern of a more naturalistic small iris. ___Printed at a little larger scale, this can be used as a cross-stitch pattern chart for your own embroidery. (about 8 stitches per inch) Cross-stitch is worked usually over 2 threads each way on even-weave fabric, or, at this scale or larger, it can be sewn on finer fabric directly over the printed stitches. Straight lines are worked in back-stitch. Printed patterns for cross-stitch of that sort were available at least in the mid to late 1900s, often used for pillowcases. I do not recommend embroidering cross-stitch from the reverse - I have done it, and it was very hard to keep the geometry straight in my mind backwards!__At this size or smaller, this makes a cross-stitch look fabric, a cheater embroidery fabric. ___ I was doing the designs that are the basis for this set of fabrics in the 1980s and very early 1990s. Most of them have been hiding in my graph-paper notebooks ever since; a few I embroidered as counted-cross-stitch on even-weave fabric or Aida cloth. I did a duplicate stitch version of this on a sweater vest with flowers.___My philosophy of cross-stitch design prefers to use the minimum number of stitches per motif to make the identity clear, and that flowers should be identifiable (sometimes to genus and species), even when drawn in pencil. Not "it's a mass of amorphous purple, it must be violets".___ You will notice that this fewer-stitches-per-motif design philosophy means less work for the embroiderer too. ___The background color prints a little greener than it looks here - a soft seafoam. ___For linen* color matches, the flower color is picked up well by Royal Purple. Fiesta Marina (a bluish purple) also works. I don't find any seafoam or green or turquoise linen that goes. Meadow is too close-but-not-quite the same as the background; it is lighter and bluer. Silver Blue, which is actually a light green, might work, and so might Emerald, a dark forest green. If you have a swatch of this, and a piece of Silver Blue or Emerald. linen, you might decide that it's ok for you. ___*(from fabricstoredotcom)