Stitch Away Stress Week
"Virtual Tour"
We are all ready to get outdoors to vacation and relax, but since we don't know when that may be, we'd like to take you on a virtual tour of a national park - while stitching. 

Our Stitch Away Stress Week event is a 3-part study of Burnett and Bradley’s Yellowstone National Park ornament. We will explore color, texture and dimension to provide you with some fun and easy techniques to use on any canvas. So kick back and join us for the ride!
Part 1
When you have a canvas with such beautiful color and shading that you don’t want to cover it - don’t! These areas are perfect for open stitches:

  • Sky - Darning Stitch with only 2 ply of floss on 18 mesh. Use one strand each of two colors to graduate color, as we did where the blue and green meet. We blended coral and pink to create a matching shade.

  • Field - T-Stitch with 2 ply of overdyed floss on 18 mesh. The field was painted with yellow and dark gold, but by using one color of overdyed thread on the entire area, we managed to gently blend the two paint colors while adding subtle texture.

Darning Stitch
T-Stitch
Thank you for joining the fun. Stay tuned for part two and part three where we will share the tutorial as a .pdf to be saved or printed.

Now gather your family and take a 'tour' of the real Yellowstone National Park .
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