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A background for Pete Pete has a background now, worked in a woven stitch with Kreinik #12 tapestry braid #032.  The woven stitch compensates easily around the numbers for the year, and once you establish a rhythm to your stitching, it works up fairly quickly.

Interestingly, this stitch also seems to provide a little more twinkle than some other stitches when worked with a metallic thread.  Perhaps the reflective quality of the thread is enhanced because the stitches slant in two different directions?

With a nice frosty background in place, I can begin working on the little penguin himself!

Posted by Anne Stradal at 6:16 AM Labels: Christmas designs, penguins
 Needle Nicely said...

That's a good point about the shininess of metallics increasing because of the two directionality of the woven stitch.

November 7, 2012 at 2:32 PM 
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