"Apple Blossom" Gift Card Holder

Materials:

• Yarn (worsted weight or yarn size 4 ) in the following colours: white, light pink, medium pink, yellow, green, black

• Gold crochet thread

• 7 count plastic canvas mesh

Instructions:

1. Cut out plastic canvas shapes as per diagram. The overall size of each piece is 25 holes wide by 17 holes high.

   
   

2. In corresponding yarn colours, fill in the tent stitches and straight stitches as per diagram below.

3. In pink yarn, add the straight stitch and back stitch details as shown in diagram. Using gold crochet thread, stitch a French knot at the location of each gold dot

4. Add the metallic gold backstitching in crochet thread as per diagram below

5. Using the overcast stitch, finish the top edges of both pieces in black yarn.

6. Using black yarn, whipstitch the remaining three sides of gift card holder together making sure not to whipstitch the edges done in the overcast stitch.

Your project is now complete and should look similar to the photo of the sample piece shown.