Harvest Henry - Finishing Tips | The Needle's Notion

Use Turkey Stitch Variation to resemble straw on arms, legs and hair. Flip design upside down and work stitches in holes between rows of cross stitch. Make loops and tie down with horizontal stitches.

Close-up of blue cross-stitched pant legs with a needle forming golden-yellow loop stitches between the pants and boots

Close-up view of golden-yellow loop stitches in progress at bottom of pant legs

Loops for hair are primarily worked inside the cross stitched outline of the head. To add fullness, a couple stitches can be added just outside the outline, opposite the eyes.

Close-up of Harvest Henry's face with a fringe of golden-yellow looped stitches for straw hair

Cut body and arm shapes from felt.

Tan felt sheet with a white paper body template on the left and a matching cut-out felt body shape on the right, on a wooden table

Use light box or window to center stitched body over felt backing piece. Tack in place with glue.

Backlit view of the stitched Harvest Henry figure on linen, with the darker outline of the felt backing visible centered behind him

Trim excess linen to match felt backing.

Tan felt body shape pinned onto a larger piece of cream linen, ready for the linen to be trimmed to the felt edge

After stitching and stuffing body, sew arms in place, matching plaid sections.

Partly assembled stuffed Harvest Henry with one plaid arm attached, the other arm and a small black crow piece laid beside him

Follow running stitch guidelines to trim the pumpkin band.

Orange-handled scissors trimming linen along a dashed running-stitch guideline beside a cross-stitched autumn band of sunflowers, pumpkins, corn, and a squirrel

Cover top and sides of the foam block, folding corners of fabric as if wrapping a gift.

Rectangular foam block partly wrapped in green floral fabric with gift-folded corners, pinned along the lower edge where white foam still shows

Cover remaining sides of block with a folded fabric band and glue in place.

Green foam block with a folded strip of matching floral fabric pinned along the top edge while wrapping the remaining sides

Side view of Henry and his stand.