#learning guides

Pic 3 bottom 'Fan': Not a formal stitch- just something I came up with on the spot. I just looped thread around the bottom center point, took it up over and behind the cordonnet between stitches, and brought it back down- No loop/knot at the top. Then repeated that again alternating sides until the space was full.

*I choose not to put any additional padding thread in. Rather I keep my loose ends long (2+ inches), run them with the cordonnet, buttonhole along, snip them right before the end of the thread, and buttonhole the tiny last bit in. I find this prevents the threads from becoming too frayed to smoothly buttonhole over as I work. It also feels like it keeps the threads really secure while still adding the extra fullness that padding threads do.