The second effort worked better despite the irritations I experienced with the "floss". Again, took an eight hour stint to complete and neither did I forget the dots around the peacocks crest!
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How are you doing the dots around the crest? Are those just tiny chains? French knots? Colonials?
Two chain stitches with a fake daisy. I do the first stitch facing away from the crest as a regular chain stitch and instead of another loop I make a small catching stitch as you do for a "daisy stitch" at the top. Swivel the fabric, draw the thread through alongside the end of the first stitches top and make a slightly smaller chain stitch at a feint slant to the left. Repeat the catching stitch and move over to the next.
I always start at the same point in line with the crest and end at the same point. (I don't bother to indicate the dots in the sketch, so it's eyeballed for positioning.
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