I think O'jishi needs a border. I wanted to add more of the hot coral reds to the canvas and thought a border would be a great way to do so. Above you see my text stitches. I thought I'd use a padded section of rectangles to echo the background stitch. But it's too red and detracts from the main design.
Next I tried laying long lines of Kreinik metallic to be couched down with a darker metallic to look like faux bamboo. I like it better. The sample stitches are on the left side. Below are two sides done. What do you think?
I haven't quite made up my mind....
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