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Embroidery Art

Finally finished!!!

As i don't have a finished thing to post this week i'll try to again proselytize about how amazing using a trammed cross stitch is. I usually have this problem when i'm stitching with black on white cloth, where even though two strands on 14 ct works perfectly for every other color, i can see so much cloth behind my black stitches. I then don't want to go up to 3 strands for every color because only black needs that, so i run a straight line of color behind the stitches and it completely removes the problem. With this pattern, i'm having problems with the light-colored thread on the navy background but still you can see how great tramming works, both in the area i circled with a before and after, and in the border around the design. (also i love stitching on even weave, but dark even weave is as awful to work with as metallic thread, i should have just used aida to get this same effect)

i have no excuse, i had a free afternoon and an idea that has definitely been done a thousand times before

Blooming Flower Doily by Raji’s Craft Hobby