Chart: Embroidered Recipes, Cross Stitch Creation

What could be more delightful than combining cooking and embroidery in a single project? With these two gourmet creations designed by Marylène Verstraete, also known as Les Fanfreluches de Mary, the pleasures of the table are invited into your home decor.

Featuring delicious recipes, delicately illustrated ingredients, and refined details, these works become true culinary masterpieces to display in the kitchen or dining room. The pea tart and asparagus cake celebrate the simple and authentic flavors of the garden.

Each design presents its recipe staged in an elegant composition reminiscent of old kitchen notebooks passed down through generations. An original way to preserve your favorite recipes while enjoying the timeless charm of cross-stitch.

Their warm and gourmet style adds a touch of conviviality to the interior and fits perfectly into a country-style decor or a family kitchen.

The designs were embroidered on 12-thread/cm linen fabric worked over 2 warp threads and 2 weft threads:
• Asparagus Cake: white 12-thread/cm linen fabric.
• Pea Tart: blue jeans colored 12-thread/cm linen fabric.

These creations can also be made on a DMC 11-thread/cm linen fabric embroidered over 2 warp threads and 2 weft threads, or on a 5.5 stitches/cm Aïda fabric to obtain slightly more generous dimensions while facilitating the embroidery work.

The charts are printed with symbols and colors (DMC ref.) on 6 pages.

Design Size:
Asparagus Cake: 150 × 150 stitches — on 12-thread/cm linen: 25 × 25 cm; on 11-thread/cm linen or Aïda 5.5: 27.3 × 27.3 cm.
Pea Tart: 147 × 148 stitches — on 12-thread/cm linen: 24.5 × 24.7 cm; on 11-thread/cm linen or Aïda 5.5: 26.7 × 26.9 cm.

Gourmet, elegant, and full of charm, these two embroidered recipes will pay homage to the pleasures of family cooking while bringing a warm, authentic, and deliciously refined touch to your home.