Start at day 0 Flat Stitch A lovely stitch I think my efforts would have benefitted from a neater edge. I did like this stitch and could see myself using it. ‘Take a small stitch alternately on each side of the shape to filled, with the point of the needle always emerging on the outside …
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Start at day 0 Long and Short Stitch Long and Short Stitch. Yet again I didn’t do these very neatly and I wish I had used fewer strands of floss. I find 3 is enough to give you some coverage but not look so bulky. The instructions I’m following state the following. ‘A form of …
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Start at day 0 Satin Stitch Ok, I’m not hugely proud of my efforts here. My satin stitch is normally much neater than this I swear. I blame using this water erasable pen. Which is very useful but does not give you a very accurate line so it can be difficult to get thing neat. …
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Start at day 0 Straight Stitch (Also known as Single Satin Stitch) I’d never really thought of this as worth it’s own name but hey I guess it is a stitch. Also it fits really nicely into my rainbow design so thats a win. This one is pretty easy. ‘Worked either in a refular or …
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Start at day 0 Paint your stitches Violet I decided that I wanted a coloured rainbow so out comes the paint. I used Derwent Inktense pan paints for this. I mixed the colour using a variety of pans. You can see how much darker the paint was before it dried. It turned out so pretty. …