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Some progress on the miniature Baluchi prayer rug. I’ve diverged from the original completely on the outer border, adding a four-stitch running stripe in green and ivory. My little guy next to a photo of the original rug pattern (5.25 x 3.5 in, 137 x 88 mm) I wanted to do a “quick” small rug and started this 20th century Anatolian prayer rug design from Meik and Ian McNaughton’s Making Miniature Oriental Rugs & Carpets. Their patterns are charted for 24-count canvas and crewel wool or cotton floss, so mine, stitched on 49-count silk gauze with Gütermann silk, will be about half their projected size of 5.25 x 3.5 in, 137 x 88 mm. But no fringe. I hate fringe. Of course I had to change up some of the colors. Wanting to emphasize the vitality of the tree of life motif, I added a deep green for the five-stitch leaves, and to carry the “live” through to the red border. My version kind of has a Scandinavian pinecones and twigs-with-leaves thing mixed in with the pomegranates on the tree, but

2014/02/07 5 Comments Nearly done stitching!

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