Green stripe building

This building in the lower left corner group was very tricky to interpret.  After staring at the design, I determined that the purple object in the middle of the green stripe was a window and there was a round roof at the top of the green stripes.

I thought that accentuating the green stripes by outlining would be good idea.

However, after stitching the outlines, there was no room left to create the columns and they were bent in strange places!  So the chorus of "rip-it, rip-it" was heard,  creating this result.




Now that there was room, a stitch was needed that would create a sense of a column in the dark green areas.  The books led me to using a Reverse Angled Gobelin in Silk Serica 4036. The reverse angle means stitching in the opposite slant of the finished stripe.  The stripe appeared to be going top left to bottom right and the slant of the thread was in the same direction.  This was stitched over 1 thread wide and 4 threads high and skipping a row before starting the next row to create room for the reverse basketweave fill in Kreink #8 braid 085.  The columns had a barber-shop stripe of the two threads.

The light green stripe was stitched like the ZigZag Tower in 4-ply Splendor using a split gobelin with random length stitches and stitching from top to bottom.  The progress of the random stitches is shown above.

The purple window was stitched in the same manner as the previous windows.  Frosty Rays Y360 for the elongated x-stitch and 1-ply Splendor S1145 for the rice stitch.

The painted canvas showed a white stripe on the door.  I imagined that to be the separation of the two doors and stitched it in Elegance E800 in basketweave.  For the door itself, Fyre Works in FT26 (soft sheen) was used for a gobelin over 2 rows.  The stitch was started at the bottom to allow for any possible compensation at the top of the door where it was more realistic.

The door handles were done as a straight stitch in Kreinik very fine #4 braid 005.  To create the curve, small thread tacks were applied where the curves occur.

The purple dome called for a rounded effect.  A double diagonal mosaic variation was used.  The chart will be placed here.  This was a fun stitch to do in 4-ply Splendor S881 and 3-ply of Accentuate 140 as the accent.

And the green stripe building stitched: