Satin stitch

I must confess - the satin stitch is not one of my favorite stitches to stitch, as I feel that a machine can embroider this stitch so much prettier (in my humble opinion) than I can.  Of course it could be that the satin stitch works better on fabrics not as loosely woven as the linen in my sample below.

I had fun designing and stitching my little kitty, then played around with filling in the background with geometric patterns.  This is the 14th stitch featured in Take a Stitch Tuesday and you can click here for the original post.


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