Soroud-e-Sepideh: Song of the Morning – PDF Pattern

€4,95

height: 82 crosses
width: 144 crosses
9 different colours: all colours use less than half a skein of DMC when stitched over 2 threads on 32 count linen

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Description

This pattern is available for download immediately after purchase.

I designed this pattern on one of the last weeks that we spent in our old home in York. As I was working on the design, the birds outside in our garden were singing so beautifully. We have always been lucky to live in a city with a lot of green, but these last weeks, it seems that nature all over the world has become more prominent, with birds singing louder, deer roaming through cities. Maybe it’s time for us to listen to the song of the birds, and, once this crazy time in our lives is over, to slow down a little, and listen a little more to what the natural world has to say.

When I was working on the pattern, I felt that the design could just as well be Scandinavian as Middle Eastern – so when I was looking for a name to put on the pattern, I asked a dear friend and talented Iranian born illustrator (Azam Masoumzadeh) for some name suggestions. We settled on the beautiful Persian “Soroud-e-Sepideh”*, which loosely translates as the dawn chorus or song of the morning. It had such a wonderful ring to it, that we decided that it should be a part of the pattern!

TECHNICAL DETAILS

Soroud-e-Sepideh measures 82 stitches in height and 144 in width. Stitched on 32 count linen, it will approximately measure 5 1/8” by 9” (13 x 23cm). Below you find the colour key, but feel free to deviate from it – it is a perfect pattern to use up those remnants of floss you have from an earlier sampler project, and would thus make a great companion piece!

You can stitch this on any linen or aida, as the design features only full crosses. The colour on the cover of this chart resembles Zweigart’s “Pearl Grey” (no. 705), but their “Light Blue” (no. 562, then overdyed with some tea) would be wonderful as well! Be creative in your choices and experiment with your fabric and colours, and really make this piece your own!