Underwater City
CROSS STITCH PATTERN READY TO DOWNLOAD, DESIGNED BY Barbara Ana Designs

Featuring a mermaid with closed eyes, this design by Barbara Ana, is actually a whole underwater landscape. Emerging from the mermaids hair is a luxurious world of exotic subaquatic flowers and seaweed, inhabited by fish and a tiny crab. The mermaid's tail supports a miniature hill-side village, flag flying high, while her scales feature another miniature seascape, beaten by waves and criss-crossed by little blue fish. The curve of her tail seems to harbour a miniature sea, with a sailboat entering a bay, while birds fly in the sunset. It is amazing how much detail the designer manages to squeeze into each pattern, a world within a world. 

This time the pattern is worked in a limited palette of blue, evocative of the sea and the reflective, serene mood of the mermaid. The colors contrast with the warm Taupe color of the Lugana evenweave used. The fabric is from the Zweigart Splash series, printed with random white dots, evocative of bubbles rising in the surrounding water.
 

A cross stitch pattern by Barbara Ana Designs.

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Chart info & Needlework supplies for the pattern:
Underwater City

Chart size in stitches: 92 x 136 (wide x high)
Needlework fabric: 25ct Lugana Splash from Zweigart in color Taupe, with random printed white dots (3835-7449)
size of stitched area: 7.4 x 10.9 inch (18.7 x 27.6 cm)
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Stitches: cross stitch, backstitch
Chart: color & BW, includes a one-page view for digital devices
Threads: DMC
Number of colors: 4

Themes: ocean, sea, mermaid, blue, fish, flowers, seaside, town
 

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