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| Highlights on Basketweave |
I've finished basketweaving the statue on my Pharaoh canvas! It took a while to do because I had to do the black areas in stolen moments during the day when I could see to stitch black on black. I am not sure you can see the final touch I added to the basketweave. I added metallic highlights. To do this, use a very fine metallic and a beading needle. Then turn the canvas a quarter turn so that Pharaoh is lying down and do a few tent stitches over the tent stitch layer you've already done.
This is the thread I used—Sulky's overdyed #7027 which is a mix of gold, red and green. Sulky is a machine embroidery thread that is very fine.
https://www.sulky.com/catalog/sub/thread/metallic/original/
I bought my spool at Joann's Fabrics. I had a spool of copper Accentuate but I liked the color mix of the Sulky so that's what I used. There are sparkles on his shoulder, around his eye and cheek and a few on his headdress. They are hard to see but this is the best photo I could get. In person the sparkle is more apparently. I wanted the look of granite which has crystals in it.
Once the statue was done, it's time to stitch the feather fan. I'll explain how I worked that next time.
By the way, I have listed all the postings about this design on the Chilly Hollow Stitch Guides blog so you can easily follow along as I blog stitch this.
https://chillyhollownp.blogspot.com/2020/08/pharoahs-fan-finished.html
Written by Jane/Chilly Hollow
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© Copyright July 4, 2020 Jane M. Wood. All rights reserved.
