Bullions did not do it at all but are a great idea for some other time – I have put some on my doodle cloth.

The combination of running stitches with a french knot or a stemmed french knot every few is growing on me, coming from something that came to me in The Expressive Stitch workshop.

The groups of stitches (creamy white) I have used before ,and like the cobbled effect; so I’m going with it for this piece (as yet untitled)
From block to block the colour of the stitchery will vary, in yet another way enhancing the relationship of the design to the tradition of repeat block designs which my work typically explores.

PS december 9th well, eventually I did something even different to the above, and am still not happy, so I have put it away, as in “right away/cupboard” and will look at it again in the new year – it’s not grabbing me and is causing too much procrastination in other areas where ideas are lining up. While sorting them, I am hand stitching another scarf this time not hiding the threads from joins – the knots are large and on the outside – and also putting time into a bright cheery kiddy design quilt for grandson #3, who now he is three, gets one. Machine pieced and quilted and designed to be well used and NOT put up on the wall as seome kind of precious decorative object. The mothers have been told that when these first ones wear out, there will be another made to replace it.