"Shawl Style" Gift Card Holder

Materials:

• Yarn (worsted weight or yarn size 4 ) in the following colours: white, pink, green, brown

• Metallic 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 26 holes wide by 17 holes high.

   
   

2. Using white yarn, fill in the tent stitches as per diagram below.

3. Using pink, brown and green yarn, fill in the straight stitches as per diagram below. Use pink yarn to add the French knots (as indicated by pink dots).

4. Using metallic gold crochet thread, do up the backstitches (indicated by gold lines) and the French knots (indicated by dots) as per diagram below.

5. Using the overcast stitch, finish the top edge of the front and back pieces in green yarn.

6. With the wrong sides of the front and back facing each other, whipstitch the remaining sides together with white yarn. Make sure you do not whipstitch the side that has its edges done in overcast stitches.

7. Your gift card holder is now complete and you can slide your standard size gift card holder, cheque or folded dollar bills into it, ready to gift to the special someone you made this for.

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