in from the corner.
My first stitches were about 1/2" (1.25 cm) worth of stitches horizontally from the corner. (Bottom row in the picture). Then I return to the corner and finish one stitch before the end of the row. Then I stitched a stitch one stitch in from that and one row up to continue the diagonal I am forming. The outermost border is made up of 4 rows, so I stitched one more diagonal and continued the innermost row of that border across the canvas until I got within 1" (2.5 cm) from the right corner. I did not count, only measured with my measuring tape. I did not end the thread because I will be using it later to continue the stitching at that side of the rug. My next color brought me closer to the border I wanted to use to lay out my rug perimeter. As you can see, each row began 1 stitch up and over from the last row, to create a diagonal. I did not need to, but decided at this point to stitch across the rug again until I reached a similar point my last row did. You will see one blank row in the photo. This is to be dark blue, but I didn't want to start another thread, so I left it blank. Continuing on the diagonal, I finally reached the row where my pattern could begin. This row was very easy in that I stitched 4 stitches, left 4 blank and repeated across the row. At this point, I began counting the number of elements I had across the bottom row. In this case I had the corner element, 27 elements across the bottom, then another corner element. I find that I can easily count blank spaces (where the element will go) since I am not trying to count holes across the whole width of the rug. When I had the correct number of spaces, I stitched the corner element edges and continued vertically to reach the spot you see in the first photo before I ended my stitching for that day. I will continue in this fashion until my border has all four sides in place.
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