My 'diamond waves' are coming along quite nicely and I'm feeling really relaxed while I stitch. If I want to get stressed I could worry that my junctions are not consistent. Sometimes I have a T-junction and sometimes there's a space. All in all I'm quite happy though and while I was stitching (is there such a word as "
sashikoing" I wonder )and my mind was wandering, I started to think about beads.
Susan has mentioned that we might add beads...
So here are some I am considering:
Not the best photo but it is good enough to see how a scattering of seaspray beading would look above the diamond waves. The crystals are sadly too large as I love the way they reflect the light. At the moment I'm thinking I'll either use the clear glass, silver lined beads (top right) or the square glass irridescent beads (bottom centre). What do you think?
I am also wondering whether I would like to stitch my dragonfly in a variegated thread. I'm using
DMC no.8 coton perle in white for the waves. I prefer this to the "proper" sashiko cotton from Olympus as I like the sheen it has and I also find it sews more smoothly. Maybe a variegated dragonfly would be over egging this lovely design...
The most important thing I have learned with today's sashikoing is to leave those little loops of extra thread when I change stitching direction, it is amazing how quickly they get taken up as I smooth my work out. Without those loops my waves would be all puckered up.
