This would leave the opposite side of each motif empty. When I got all the way around, I did the same thing around the rug, stitching the other side of each motif and the unfinished single stitches. You can see some of the empty sections remaining on the bottom left side of the photo. As you can see, the empty sections are alternating down the side. This way of filling in these motifs has two advantages - 1) it uses less thread and 2) it doesn't make the rug thicker by carrying thread across the motif.
When I showed this photo on the online stitching group I belong to ([email protected]), someone asked me a very good question: Do you actually count the hundreds of stitches for the border? Not at all. That would be way too difficult. I usually place a few stitches in the corner of the outermost border, then count inwards diagonally from the corner to the first section that has a pattern. In this case it was 6 rows in from the outermost row. I then work the patterned section around the rug, using the pattern to count my way around and make sure there are the correct number of elements on each side before I get to a corner. I complete the patterned section so that I know everything is correct and then I stitch the outer, boring rows to get some of the boring parts out of the way before I start on another patterned section. The great thing about this approach is that I know every row I do from now on is smaller than the last, lol. The small patterned section on this rug is hard to see in the photo but shows up very well in real life. Do you sometimes get bored with sections of a rug when you are stitching? I know I do. I often find the plain rows on the outermost border and the background of a rug to be the most boring part. I decided long ago to try not to have a lot of that to do at the end of stitching one of my rugs because I would find it so difficult to finish. I would be thinking all the while of the new rug I want to start and would most likely put the current one aside so I could start a new one. In the beginning of stitching a rug, I am still excited about stitching it, so I try and complete some of the boring stitching right away. I still have a few rows of the dark blue to complete before I start the more interesting, inner border, but I am determined to be disciplined and do this before I start the next section!
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