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top semi-angle view of bowling card

Knocking Down Pins

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I”m getting near the end of the birthday cards. This one is for a cousin who goes to Nationals with bowling every year. I am assuming he’s bowled a 300 at some point.  I don’t know this cousin all that well, so I needed some help from my mom for ideas. Bowling would fit several people in the family, and he’s going to be the lucky recipient.

bowling pins in progress

This pattern is from dailycrossstitch.com. It’s pretty simple once you get the first row done. Everything else can be based off of that one row for a while. Then once you need to go another direction (like the ball) you need to count another row and just keep going from there.

This one is sort of large, I stitched it on 18 count to fit on the smaller card size, so it takes a bit of time to stitch.

close up of bowling ball

For the card I wanted to mount the pattern. So glad I learned about interfacing fabric this year! Seriously the best thing ever! Anyway, due to the more “actiony” looking image I wanted it to stand off the page. I found a textured blue background to use for mounting the pattern to. The card base is just my regular white cardstock.

Stitching

Started: October 1st
Finished: October 6th

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full front of bowling card

bottom up view

3 Sports

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I’ve been investing quite a bit in new cross stitch books and even some magazines. There are so many that offer small patterns that fit well on a card. I spent the first 20ish years of cross stitching doing kits only. Now I can’t believe how much I was missing out on!

golf bag and clubs

The bowling ball was not a motif that I found, but I did take a basketball and turn it into a bowling ball. The set the golf clubs and football came from also had a basketball that I thought would work as a bowling ball instead. There was a fourth thing, but I can’t remember what it was now.

bowling

 

They were grouped into a square, for my purposes I wanted separate pieces. I redrew the patterns into WinStitch so I could separate them and change the one to a completely different sport ball. I had to really figure out where I was cutting around them to get everything placed right once I began. Luckily I cut a little extra width to the fabric just in case.

football

For the card assembly I went back and forth a lot. Search through my paper options and finally settled on a thick wallpaper. I ran it through one of my birthday embossing folders and it actually went through really smoothly.

I mounted the cross stitch squares to using foam tape. I wasn’t going to do that, but with the embossing I felt it would look better standing off even more from the front of the card. I used a yellow colored fabric, so this card is fairly yellow-tinted in real life.

Stitching

Started: July 21st
Finished: July 27th

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3 sports full front of card