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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

Nearly done stitching! 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…

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