I am continuing to play on my doodle cloth trying to decide how to do the candy canes that I want to put by the front door of my gingerbread house. Some of my possibilities are in my previous post. I could not find any white beads in my stash. However, in talking to a friend, I remembered that I have a whole box of beads I had not searched yet. When you have been collecting stash your entire life, it adds up.
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| bead possibilites for candy canes |
I found some fake pearls in my stash. I think they will work for my candy canes. They are a pain to work with because the holes are not regular, so I will need to dig out the tiny beading needles.
I have not decided what to do with my Cretan stitch on the house. I played with it a bit on the doodle cloth. The bottom left corner is Scotish Cretan stitch from
here. The right side is two rows of single feather stitch. These two stitches are weeks 3 and 4 of
Take a Stitch Tuesday.
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| Cretan stitch samples and feather stitch sample |
Your stitches are lovely! Thank you for the link to the Scottish Cretan stitch. I used a book to do mine. Take a look at the open cretan filling stitch I did on my sampler. It might give you an idea for your house.
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