Rhonda Bracey: At Random

I started by stitching in the ditch around all the blocks and borders, around the circles containing the birds, around the scalloped edge inside the circles, and then around each bird. I then did a smallish stipple in the white space around each bird to make the bird ‘pop’, and continued the stipple in the brown borders.

I left the cream and green borders unstitched, then did a straight stitch following the direction of the striped in the main border.

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Threads used:

• Top: Fil-Tec Glide ‘Military Gold’ (40 wt, trilobal polyester, colour 27407)
• Bottom: Fil-Tec Magna Glide Classic pre-wound bobbin (light tan)