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Another Border Complete

3/29/2024

Sometimes I find that I get a renewed sense of energy when working on a rug. This is definitely the case with this one. My second border is now complete and it went so much quicker than the first half of the border! For one, it went quicker because it was familiar and secondly, I became more adept at doing a bit of background until I reached the point of the next element.

I had this half of the border done in just 5 days! That is quite an accomplishment for me and I am very pleased.

I have been getting a bit of relaxation time in while I am on holiday now that the majority of the hard work is done and it shows in the amount of stitching I have been able to do.

Only two small borders left to do!

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Working the Second Border

3/24/2024

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Greetings all. It has been a while since I have been able to post, so I have a bit to catch up on.

I have continued working on my Irene rug off and on as I find time in-between working on renovations. I now have the second border 1/2 finished and I want to talk a little about how I did this border.

Since the dark color would show through the white if I stitched the white after the dark, I began with the white. You can see that I have done most of the white around the entire border. There are some sections of white that I have left for now until I have stitched some of the blue up to where the white would start.

I tend to get lost sometimes if I stitch too much white at once because I can't see it as well against the white silk gauze. In order to help myself and prevent mis-counting errors, I stitch a certain distance (it never seems to be the same amount) then fill in some of the background. I work background up to an element, then stitch that element. This way, I can make sure each element is in the correct position before I get too far in my stitching.

Sometimes, when working with a dark color that will be near a light one, or when doing a single line of stitching and you don't wish to carry your thread back to your starting point (such as a stem for a flower), I find it much easier to do this:
I stitch every other stitch along the line (this works for diagonals as well), then when I reach the end of that line, I come back along the line, stitching in every other stitch that remains.

I find this uses much less thread and eliminates the need to carry a thread across a light color. The photo above shows what I am speaking of. This method has come in very handy when stitching this rug.

Now, to get back to stitching the rest of this fun rug!

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