At this question, so I thought I would just walk you through all of the different stitches that I’m doing on this canvas. So starting out with the background, the light blue, it is done in a t stitch. And that is one of my favorite stitches to do backgrounds with because it goes really quickly and it gives some nice dimension to the back background of your canvas. I like to do it when the thread color is the same color as the paint on the canvas because it just blends nicely. And like I said, I think it gives some nice dimension. When you pull it back, you really can’t even tell. You can tell that I’ve stitched here and not here, but you can’t really tell that the stitch is open, I guess, unless you look closely at it. So I’d love a t stitch. Highly recommend testing it out if you have never done it before on a background. And then the clouds, I wanted them to kind of look like they were drifting through the sky a little bit. And so I did this in a diagonal mosaic stitch, and I think I kind of achieved that effect. I don’t know. Let me know what y’all think. And then the carousel, the majority of the carousel, the Eiffel Tower, and then the tree, and then the lamp posts as well. But I haven’t stitched that yet. Those will all be done in just a tent stitch. And then, and I have seen people do French knots here in the tree, but didn’t wanna do that. So then this part of the camp or the carousel, the four little sections, and then the grass back here, those are satin stitches, which is another one of my favorite stitches to do. And then the grass in the front is a reversed mosaic stitch, which this is my first time to do. I’ll put a picture here of the little like guide showing you how to do that stitch. And then for the sidewalk, I googled for quite some time different sidewalk or cobblestone stitches and I couldn’t find one that worked really well. I tested a few out, so I ended up screenshotting the stitched canvas of this that is on the Morgan Jolly Designs Instagram. And I just zoomed in and copied the stitch that was done when the stitch sample was done. And this is what it was. And this is actually a variation of a stitch that I found online that’s called like a cobblestone stitch. And I’ll put a picture of that here, but it’s pretty easy to count out all it is. It’s like similar to a satin stitch where they’re slanted stitches, but it’s three long ones that go over three holes and then it’s three short ones that go over one hole. So it’s a pretty easy pattern to pick up.
And then, oh, the water is also a tent stitch. And then for this little top up here, I kind of just made this up. I don’t really know what I did. I’ll see if I can get it closer for you all to see it, if it’ll focus.
And then I’m going to add like a little silk ribbon bow right there. So that’s why that isn’t stitched yet. So I’ve just got a little bit of the background to do the lamp post and then like the black dots on the horses. So I’m hoping that I’ll be able to finish today or tomorrow. We’ll see how this goes. But let me know if you have any questions about any of these.
I’m also happy to do like stitch video tutorials, kind of walking me through how to do some of these stitches. So let me know what you’ll want to see or if you have a favorite stitch on here. Here’s a little bit of a better view of what I did on the top of the carousel. So pretty sure what I did was just like two satin stitches going over one hole and then I did another stitch in the opposite direction to kind of like pull those two stitches together inwards. And I really like what it ended up looking like. But like I said, I just kind of made it up. I don’t know if this stitch exists in the world already or not, but that’s what I did.