Slowly but surely, the design emerges. It has been a couple of weeks since I posted last but they have not been idle. I now have all of the middle border outlined and the colors filled into the motifs. Now, I need to stitch the white background around each motif. It will be difficult to see if I photograph it on a white piece of paper again the way this photo is so I will choose a colored piece of paper for the next photo so that you can see the stitched background easier.
Stitching the colors in each motif was a bit fiddly because there are four different blues in some of them, but very satisfying in the end to see the various colors blending and working together to give each motif some depth. I will be using basketweave stitch to fill in the background as opposed to the tent stitch I have used so far. Basketweave is done in a diagonal direction and I often like to use that for backgrounds unless I am using an overdyed floss for the background. Overdyes must be done with half cross stitch or tent stitch so that the lines are horizontal and match the "abrash" look that you see in many old rugs. Next week I hope to have quite a bit of the white filled in for you to see...
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AuthorMy name is Yvette, and I will be writing this blog to tell you about the creative process that has gone into the creation of my Petitpoint patterns along with showing the stitching I have done of some of the rugs. Archives
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