One of my favorite things about the fall is the shift from humid, gross weather to crisp fall coolness. It hasn't happened yet, but it will be soon. I was trying to think about how to best depict crisp or crispness. It made me think of the crispness of lines. Embroidery stitches can be super neat, but they don't always have crispness. It can be hard for a line to come across as crisp; the tension of the fabric and the thread has an impact. The way it's displayed makes a difference. Even the number of strands can make a line seem larger or smaller or more or less crisp.
I don't know that I necessarily captured "crisp" today, but it was fun to try. For the set that goes left to right, I used thread strands from 1-6 in a repeated pattern (there are 12 lines). For the set that goes top to bottom, I alternated between 2-3 strands; I use this amount of thread most often.
Details:
Stitches: straight and back stitches
Thread palette: DMC 310 (1-6 strands)
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