As you can see in the above photo, all the water is finished. I used David McCaskill's water stitch from the ANG website.
http://www.needlepoint.org/StitchOfTheMonth/2003/mar.php
If you have trouble seeing the blue silk and metallic stitches behind the goldfish, this canvas that The Bristley Thistle just finished has water stitch at the bottom.
http://bristlythistle.wordpress.com/2008/07/16/small-needlepoint-projects/
Had lots of trouble with it as diagrammed, though, so I worked the stitch by turning the goldfish on his head and turning the directions ninety degrees also. This made the stitch / and \ slants with tent and reverse tent stitches. Here's a diagram of how I worked.
First, I worked all the / stitches shown in black. I did them in horizontal rows. Next, I worked the \ green stitches, also in horizontal rows. Then I did the red tent stitches (you guessed it--in horizontal rows) and followed that with my orange reverse tent stitches.
This made more sense to me but everyone is different. David's original diagram of this stitch may make much more sense to you. Thanks, Anne, for the tip about turning the instructions and canvas on their side! It really helped me.
The last step is attaching the pearls that Squigee included with the canvas. Thanks, Gail! This has been a delight to stitch!
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