April 30th, 2024

I have been having fun stitching the next border over the last little while and I am enjoying watching the pattern emerge.

You may notice that the lines of the ribbons and symbols are smoother and do not have that "railroad look" when stitching a line in the opposite direction to my norm.  This is because I chose to turn my stitches in the opposite direction when stitching certain parts. By this I mean that instead of slanting my stitches from the right top corner down to the left bottom corner, I chose to make my stitches from the left top corner down to the bottom right corner when my line slants down from the left to right. I did this a lot when stitching the Irene rug and decided to do this on the Mariko as well.  So far, it is 

helping to make the symbols look more like the originals.  This is by no means the only way to stitch this pattern. It is the way I have chosen to stitch it.  There is noting wrong with keeping all of your stitches slanting in the same direction all of the time. (In fact, most people would tell you that you can't change the direction of your stitches - I choose to ignore that because I like the way this looks)

Most likely, this border will take me a while to finish, but you will see it sooner as I have been trying to catch up on my blog posts since being away, and a new post will be showing up once a week until I am caught up.  For example, this post comes one week after the last one, but in reality it took me almost a month to get this far after the photo in the last post.