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Leaf Quartet in Textured Stitches

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Stitch Details for the Leaf Quartet
Leaf Quartet in Textured Stitches

Stitching Details for the Leaf Quartet

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Here you can see the stitch details for the leaf and border areas.

The border areas between the brown bands are worked in long stitch over two diagonal intersections in a variation of slanted gobelin, with each row worked in the opposite direction.

The two-toned background areas as worked in opposite directions in continental stitch.

The leaves are worked in long stitch worked diagonally, having the light and medium green sides of the leaf worked in opposite directions. Back stitch in dark green is used to make the leaf veins.

The white areas at the corners of each group of leaves are worked in a variation of the Rhodes Stitch.

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