Description:

We are pleased to offer an Orenco Originals Counted Cross Stitch Chart, Pattern, Graph

PA Dutch Hex # 12 Birds Heart Tree Counted Cross Stitch Pattern

Counted Cross Stitch Chart Specifics:

·Its finished size is 14 inches (196 stitches) by 14 inches (196 stitches)

·Fabric Size: This chart is designed for 14 count fabric

·Fabric Color: We suggest using ivory or white fabric

·Thread: This chart is designed for DMC Cotton Floss

·# Floss Colors: This chart calls for 40 colors

You can stitch the background or stitch on your choice of a 14-count solid cloth and create a raised embossed effect.

 ***This is NOT a Kit-Purchase for graph-pattern-chart only***

What inspired this pattern:

Hex signs are a form of Pennsylvania Dutch folk art, related to fraktur, found in the Fancy Dutch tradition in Pennsylvania Dutch Country. Barn paintings, usually in the form of "Stars in circles," grew out of the fraktur and folk art traditions about 1850 when barns first started to be painted in the area. By the 1940s commercialized hex signs, aimed at the tourist market, became popular and these often include Stars, compass roses, and stylized birds known as distelfinks, hearts, tulips, or a tree of life. Two schools of thought exist on the meaning of hex signs. One school ascribes a talismanic nature to the signs, the other sees them as purely decorative, or "Chust for nice" in the local dialect. Both schools recognize that there are sometimes superstitions associated with certain hex sign themes, and neither ascribes strong magical power to them. The Amish do not use hex signs.