Okay I love these Keep Calm canvases! It is a nice open canvas and no pun intended. It is a wonderful piece for some basketweave or even better one for having lots of fun with some different stitches. Beads and French knots are done on the letters and I was on the prowl for a background stitch that would be just purr~fect!

I poured through the books as I wanted a darning pattern, a diaper pattern or just the right stitch that would make this into something special. Books and books and more books all over the place, notes and sticky notes and everything else. Decisions, decisions, what’s a girl to do?

I found this stitch that I think that this is it! First I had to make sure that the rows were aligned just right and would it count out evenly enough that I could use it? I am using Planet Earth Pepper Pot Silk Scallions and couching it down with the new Vintage Kreinik Green 4011V. I am thrilled that it is working out!

 

My next step was to add this blackwork pattern fish in between the rows. It is really coming together! Can this be the one? Ooh I am so excited!

So you are wondering where am I anchoring my threads? There really is no where to do that, so I am making an L stitch in the margin, but I really want to make sure that these threads are not going anywhere, so I sort of create a box. To keep my very long stitch which basically is from the top of the canvas to the bottom of the canvas very straight, I actually take an additional stitch in the margins and then move on 11 threads over, take another stitch and then proceed with my next stripe.

The color is not very good in these pictures as I was taking them with my cell phone while I was stitching. It is the great acid green as seen in the first picture.

So I know you are waiting to see the end result? check back in a day or 2 and you will see! I did change the Vintage Kreinik 4011V  to 015, which is my favorite Chartreuse green. I had a counting error, so it had to come out anyway. When you line up your stitches to the first row and then you discover that the first row is wrong, it all has to come out! I do like this 015 Kreinik much better. Just a hint about the stitch… it came out of one of Brenda Hart’s books.

I really am not getting very far on my Halloween decorating. Been watching way too much playoff baseball…8 games in 2 days of pushing the October drama at every turn is more than a girl can handle! I have been stitching away on my pieces for the Winter TNNA Market though. See I am working, but enjoying every stitch and these games have just been amazing!

My new addition to the Halloween decorating…AlleyCat why are you outside? and until next time…keep on stitching.