igolochkoy Christmas tree ornament
December 4, 2007 by Chloe Findlay-Harder
Filed under Home & Living
I finally had a chance to sit down this afternoon and finish the embroidery on my latest project, an igolochkoy (Russian punch needle embroidery) Christmas tree ornament:
I used plain cotton DMC floss for the berries, outline of the leaves & the border. The pale green leaves are silk floss that I picked up in a little silk shop in Vancouver. The cream floss is an ombre “Waterlilies” floss by Caron.
I didn’t use a pattern for this project, I just drew right on the fabric – iron on transfers would work great though too! I can definitely tell that I haven’t done any igolochkoy in awhile, I need more time to get my stitches nice & even 
I found one video on YouTube that shows how to thread an igolochkoy needle – it’s not in English though…
When it looks that good with you being out of practice it’s going to look wonderful with practice.
thank you very much for the video,is in spanish! my native lenguage!…is the first time that i look igolochkoy needle…
I agree with Karen! Your stitches look even in the picture. I think I might want to try this, but I couldn’t tell enough from the video. Is there 2 threads in the needle? maybe I need to watch it again.
Actually, I’ve used everything from one strand to four in the one ornament. I’m using a medium igolochkoy needle, which normally works best with three threads (half of one strand) of embroidery floss. Since I’m using several different types of thread, I needed to use different amounts of threads to get the same overall thickness of floss.