A very dear friend, who is 92 years young and stitches better at her age than I ever will, gave me a small box of linen yarn. The purple yarn is the perfect color for a project I'm doing, a teapot from a recent issue of Inspirations. It's a bit too thick to stem stich around the outline so I want to couch it. On a doodle cloth, I found that bringing it to and from the back leaves a slight indentation so I'm thinking of just laying it on the top.
I'm looking for your advice about how to handle the raw edges of the yarn.
Thanks everyone. Last night while dogsitting my daughter's beagle, I decided to take the plunge and began the outlining work (there's a pun in here somewhere but darned if I can see it right now). I opted to come through the ground rather than merely laying the yarn on top. Because I'm ignorant about unobtrusive ways to anchor threads without knots, there's a bit of a mess on the back. If I quilt it as the design calls for, the bumps will hopefully blend in.
I'm doing an extremely modified version of Taking Tea from issue 45 because most of the suggested threads and beads weren't easily obtained in the U.S. The design intrigued me because of the vibrant colors, stumpwork, and the plethora of stitches employed. It's been a real learning experience picking colors from my growing stash of Needle Necessities overdyes and Caron Wildflowers as colors that are absolutely gorgeous on the skein look totally different when put down on fabric and juxtaposed with already stitched areas.
Note to Dianne -- I've said it before but I'll say it again "I give good thread!"
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