Finished RR Square

Here's my "home square" for the round robin:


Click to enlarge.

I designed it myself using chickens from the "One Nighters: 59 Chickens" leaflet by Jeanette Crews. The other squares on the piece will have the same black and white checked border.

Today I am taking a break from stitching the rest of the borders (I have 1.5 left to do) and working on a Bent Creek zipper kit I got a week ago at the Thistle. I'm using pearl cottons for the first time, stitching on rustic linen. One strand of pearl cotton is very thick compared to what I'm used to using in DMC or Anchor flosses. It reminds me of coloring with crayons.

On this piece I'm also using the parking method to keep more than one color going at a time, also for the first time. As you can tell, I'm using it as a learning piece. I'll try to post a progress pic later.