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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nAnd here is Bathya. The pink flowers were easy after the green ones. I have two, only 2! \u201cStitches of personalization.\u201d I have two horizontal stitches that went in the wrong place. Oh well you can hardly see them and it wasn\u2019t worth it to me to restitch those leaves to make them perfect.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nI started the next wide floral band. This is stitched almost entirely in double back stitch and diagonal double back stitch. I love double back stitch (also called closed herringbone). It just flows so well! The diagonal version is trickier. The hard thing is making the turns and corners! What a nightmare! It takes a whole stitching session to put in one strand! And that\u2019s because I have to take out to much too! <\/p>\n\n\n\n
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<\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\nHowever I have succeed in getting the back to look correct and my corners in the front, even if they are not all done exactly the same way, don\u2019t look bad\u2026so I\u2019m going with it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n I\u2019m glad this is a rather narrow sampler! There are only two large flowers in this band. And the next big band is all reversible cross stitch like the alphabet was so that will be considerably easier. I am positively looking forward to it! <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here you can see I\u2019ve made great strides with H Faulkner! She\u2019ll definitely be a finish this month which will be very nice even if I\u2019m not able to start my other sampler. I haven\u2019t decided about the name yet. And here is Bathya. The pink flowers were easy after the green ones. I have two, only 2! \u201cStitches of […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59],"tags":[155,129,62],"class_list":["post-4528","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-wips","tag-hands-across-the-sea","tag-i-bathya","tag-priscillas-pocket"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=4528"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4550,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4528\/revisions\/4550"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=4528"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=4528"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.marysthread.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=4528"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}![\"\"](\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.marysthread.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/09\/img_6336.jpg?resize=640%2C640&ssl=1\")
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