Lavender sachets - simple cross stick chart required

[theabsinthefairy]

With the bumper crop of lavender flowers drying now, I have decided to make some sachets for good old crimble pressies - but would like to decorate the material with a lavender cross stich, having spent more time than my poor brain will allow via google I just can't seem to find a simple, single flower head pattern free on line anywhere - does anyone have one they can share with me?

Many thanks

Monika

[Annpan]

Monika, I have loads of basic flower patterns but I can't find a specific lavender one (I have 3 big Jo Verso books) if you have some graph paper you could always design one yourself?

[theabsinthefairy]

I tried that - but it just looked really rubbish. So I tried copy and pasting some of the pictures on google to blow them up bigger so I could copy the pattern but the blues just merged into one and I went cross eyed after a couple of minutes.

So still looking.

[StripyPixieSocks]

I don't do cross stitch myself (haven't got the patience) but a quick look revealed this: Victorian Lavender Picture/Cushion Panel

[mrsflibble]

if you find oine you like I'd be willing to pixelate it on photoshop and create a pattern for you...

I dont do CS myself but I can make them as i have experience of doing so.

[Graye]

You could try trawling through this site

http://www.antiquepatternlibrary.org/

I've found all sorts of interesting things there.

[gigglybug]

You could try this link for creating picture patterns

http://www.microrevolt.org/knitPro/

It should be the same for cross stitch pictures. I think

[theabsinthefairy]

Thanks - I have seen the lavender sachet pattern - that is the one I tried to copy freehand but failed miserably at. The other patterns are quite large and involved and I just wanted something simple to stitch onto a little wardrobe scent satchet. I have decided that a letter 'L' will do!

Especially as I appear to have about 10 kilos of flowers - too many harvested this year - there is nowhere to dry them, at least the sun is out in the day, and I can just keep piling great big clumps into the warming oven of the Rayburn.

Thanks guys.

Monika

[mrsflibble]

wow, can i come live with you for a while?! i bet our house smells a-ha-mazing!

[theabsinthefairy]

It is helping to make up for the smells issuing from the new kitten - very aptly named - Stinky Eric!

[the.fee.fairy]

You might be able to download a pattern creating programme from somewhere. I had a cd somewhere, but i'm not sure where it is right now. You uploaded the picture, put it through the programme, told it what size you wanted it and it made a pattern. I only used it once and ended up with a pattern for Brandon Lee in The Crow...big enough to cover my bed...i made a few small errors measuring out how big i wanted it...