Pine Trees Mini Sock

You'll love the look of this needlepoint pattern from Nuts About Needlepoint! Once you make a Pine Trees Mini-Sock, you'll want to make many more!

Materials:

• 8″ x 10″ 18 mesh mono needlepoint canvas
• 1 card Rainbow Gallery Rainbow Tweed RT35 (brown)
• Scraps of green thread of various kinds
• 1 skein oatmeal overdyed thread (background)

Instructions:

1. Using the mini sock outline, trace the ornament onto the canvas.
   
   
   
    
2. This is the chart for the pine trees. It’s made from Diagonal Gobelins over three threads. The slant of the Gobelins reverses on each side of the tree. I found it easiest to stitch the top of a pine tree, then add the trunk and then move on to the next tree.
    
3. There are six open threads between the trees.
   
   
    
4. The background is Alternating Diagonal Gobelin Stripe over six threads. The stitch is done in columns with the slant of the stitch alternating.