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Peace from the Cabochon series by Susan Portra is coming along nicely. I counted the tent stitch blue border in advance of our Saturday Stitch-in because it requires concentration.

I added the pink Fyre Werks outline during the Stitch-in yesterday.

As in a previous cabochon, I substituted French Knots with cross stitches of various lengths (over 4, 3, 2, and/or 1) depending on the number of available intersections. I got the idea from Painted Canvas Embellishment: An Idea Book by Carole Lake and Michael Boren (Bands and Borders Over One).

Not wanting to start anything more difficult later that night, I added the bugle beads and all the long laid diagonal stitches. There were no instructions to stitch one row and then couch. So, I laid all the threads. Hopefully, I won’t regret that! I do have enough in case I need the remove it but I should be ok.

I am contemplating a T-stitch for the cabochon squares. The instructions leave them unstitched. Thoughts?