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The nails are Veneer Pins
16 mm (5/8 inch) long. Safe Shopping
These have very small
heads. Hammer in the
nails as indicated on the
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easier to hammer if they

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are held with pointed
nose pliers. Hammer the nails in until there is about 6 mm (1/4 inch)
protruding.

All of the nails have been

hammered in. The paper
pattern can now be
removed.

W e are using multi-

stranded cotton (sold in
skeins for cross stitch
work). This comes in a
wide range of bright
colours.

The instructions for circle

1 start as follows:

"2 - 46, 46 - 7, 7- 51, 51

- 12, 12 - 56.
Continue this sequence
until the section is complete using the illustration as a guide."

Start by fixing the first string to nail 2 with a knot. This can be secured with a
small drop of clear drying glue.
Take the string from nail 2 across the circle to wrap round nail 46.
From nail 46 we go across the circle to nail 7.
Then from nail 7 we go across to nail 51.
Note that each cross string has the same number of nails between the two
nails that it spans. We are moving forward by five nails with each cross string.
The stringing continues in this way using the illustration as a guide.

W hen the first layer is

complete knot the end
of the string to the final
nail. On this particular
layer we have worked
around the circle twice to
arrive back at the nail we
started with.

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W ork the second layer in

a different colour.
The number of nails
between each cross
string is different to layer
1 thus giving a different
pattern.
As in layer 1 it is
calculated to end on the
first nail of the sequence
to make it symmetrical.

This is the finished

picture with layer 3 in a
third colour.

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