Blue Snow Background

I've started on the background behind the snowman, using Caron's Snow in blue to set off the snowman and his outfit. This will make the snowman sparkle in artificial light on the tree he ends up decorating. Snow is a synthetic thread in the "chainette" form, which means it is a sort of braid that will unravel into its component parts. So stitch with short lengths (under 10 inches) and you might want to put something like a dab of FrayChek on the end sticking out of the needle's eye to stop the unraveling. Here are all the colors--

http://www.caron-net.com/snow.html

I was doing interlocking Goblein at the bottom and up the right side but the thread is thick enough it was starting to distort the NP canvas badly so I switched to basketweave. I'll still have to block him before making an ornament but that's no big deal, especially for something so small. You can't see the two different stitches in person as the sparkle is overwhelming. Only the camera knows....

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