I added grass along the river bank using Watercolours (222 Sierra and 165 Granite). The Granite has a gray-green overdyed thread making the transition from rocks to sparse grass. Then, I blended various portions of Sierra which has a nice variety of greens and yellow.
I used stitch pattern 14 from Stitch Landscape from the grass category. But, it ended up having a pattern and I wanted a more random effect. So, I just added half crosses in the open areas. The top half of the stitched grass has the pattern and the bottom includes the random stitches.
You won’t find a neat back because I skipped around a lot with various portions of the color to avoid bunching colors together. And, I pulled out my paints again and painted the canvas green because some (not a lot) canvas shows through.
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What a great idea–filling in spaces with half crosses. It works. And the addition of stones and grasses are now making the water’s flow more prominent.
Comment by Brenda's Needlepoint Studio Blog July 7, 2013 @ 5:36 amI thought it was just me but I thought the river was more prominent now too! I don’t understand why.
Comment by melitastitches4fun July 7, 2013 @ 9:05 amThis is coming along so well. I remember when you started it and had such a time working out all the Crescents! This is going to be a really stunning piece.
Comment by Liz July 7, 2013 @ 10:34 amThis is so beautiful. Thanks for sharing!
Comment by goldbe July 10, 2013 @ 9:02 am