The Thistle Celebration by
Periwinkle Promises is sooooo much fun to stitch. I just love Barbara Rakosnik's use of stitches and color in her designs. Even though I've frogged a bit already, I'm really enjoying this piece. The only problem I'm having is that the colors are so close that I have to be extremely careful not to mix them up.
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| Thistle Celebration 09-18-12 |
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I only had one miscount on the Holbein band, which I thought was pretty impressive. I usually get lost and have to do a lot of frogging, but no this time. And I didn't even use Barbara's very explicit diagram. I've decided that figuring out Holbein motifs without a chart is my way of staving off dementia. It's definitely a puzzle.
As you can see, I've just started the large satin stitch band. The satin stitch motifs are divided by bands of diagonal cross stitch. What a relief! At first I thought it was Diagonal Montenegrin which taxes my brain considerably.
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