A recent entry on Rittenhouse Needlepoint‘s Stitch of the Week was Medieval Mosaic (pictured above). One of my favorite stitches. It took me a bit to get the hang of this stitch, but once I did it became one of my favorites.
The stitch is made entirely from straight stitches, four long ones, followed by four short. The tricky thing is that they move in a zig-zag line. I finally figured it out when I isolated one column, stitched it and then moved to the next.
This gives the stitch a neat diagonal feeling, which I exploited for the border of this Tink Boord-Dill tile. Notice how the vertical and horizontal sides have a different feel.
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