5TH Avenue - Pansey Bardot in Anchor - Downloadable PDF

5th Avenue Pansy Bardot Embroidery Pattern by Anchor – Free Downloadable PDF

The Pansy Bardot is a beautifully detailed embroidery design from Anchor, released under the 5th Avenue collection and available as a free downloadable PDF. Designed by AnchorCrafts.com (Design No. 0022174-00000-14), this project brings delicate bucolic charm to a ready-made bardot top by embellishing it with a trio of cross-stitched pansy motifs. It is rated as an intermediate embroidery project, making it ideal for crafters who are comfortable with cross stitch and working on fabric garments.

What Is Being Made

This pattern guides you through embroidering three pansy motifs onto the front of a bardot-style top. The finished embroidered area for each pansy measures approximately 6.2 cm x 12.9 cm. The pansies are arranged horizontally across the front of the garment: one central pansy placed with a 4 cm gap from the bottom hem, and one additional pansy on each side, positioned centrally between the first pansy and each side seam. The result is a charming, floral-embellished garment with a vintage-inspired, cottage aesthetic.

Techniques Used

• Cross stitch on fabric – The core technique used to create each pansy motif. Cross stitch involves forming small X-shaped stitches in a grid pattern to build up a coloured design, and is one of the most popular and accessible forms of counted embroidery.
• Waste canvas method – Because the bardot top is a woven or knit garment rather than an evenweave embroidery fabric, a piece of 14-count waste canvas is used as a temporary grid. The canvas is tacked onto the garment in the correct position, stitched through, and then removed thread by thread once the embroidery is complete. This technique allows precise counted cross stitch to be worked directly onto any fabric surface.
• Tacking/basting – Used to temporarily secure the waste canvas to the garment before stitching begins, ensuring accurate placement of each motif.
• Garment embellishment – The pattern demonstrates how to transfer a counted embroidery design onto a ready-to-wear item, a technique that opens up endless creative possibilities for personalising clothing.

Stitches Used

• Cross stitch – The sole embroidery stitch used throughout this design. Each cross stitch is formed over the grid provided by the waste canvas, ensuring even, consistent coverage across all three pansy motifs.

Materials Required

• Anchor Mouliné Stranded Cotton (Art. No. 4635000) – The thread used for all embroidery in this project. The following shades are required:
  • 1 skein each of shades 290, 225, 100, and 150
  • 2 skeins each of shades 229 and 90
• Embroidery needle, size 9 – Recommended for working with stranded cotton on the waste canvas and garment fabric.
• 14-count waste canvas – Essential for transferring the counted cross stitch design onto the garment fabric accurately.
• Embroidery hoop – Recommended wherever possible to keep the fabric taut and stitches even during embroidery.
• Tacking thread – Used to baste the waste canvas in place before stitching.
• Bardot top – The garment to be embellished. The pattern notes that alternative garments can be substituted, and recommends avoiding sheer, satin, silk, open weave, or open knit fabrics.

Care and Additional Notes

All Anchor Mouliné threads are produced in accordance with Oeko-Tex standards, with pH values tested and colour dye lots adhering to Global Fastness Standards. To minimise any potential bleeding of excess dye, particularly with darker shades, the finished embroidered garment should be