Last night I finished the embroidered chrysanthemums on The Geisha's robe and worked on finding the right stitch for the shawl collar. It is painted with squares scattered in an irregular pattern on it, so I wanted a background of squares, or at least as many as I could squeeze in before I had to compensate.
I ended up using Scotch Stitch with my Soie Perlee silk.
http://www.needlepoint.org/StitchOfTheMonth/98-06.php
I am not placing my Scotch stitches in a regular way--I'm scattering them into the largest areas where I can and compensating around them. The painted blocks of color are not in a regular pattern--why should my Scotch stitches be?
Note I am making sure my Scotch stitches all slant the same way. One can alternate them and stitch a beautiful pattern that catches the light but this is random enough already that I thought changing direction of the Scotch stitches would look messy.
I'll attempt to finish these little boxes tonight while I think about how to stitch the painted blue boxes they surround.
Jane/Chilly Hollow
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