A First 'How To' For Me

All fluffed up on a winter's day.

Not a typical Blue Jay stance

so I had to colour inside the lines to remind myself!

The background of my original photo was blurry blobs of white and green

so I put in snowballs!

A knotted blue feather stitch seemed appropriate.

And here's how it's done if you're interested

Think of the three points of a V.

Bring needle up through the top left point of that V

Take the needle down at the top right and up through the base of that V 

 making sure you hold the thread under the needle as it emerges.

and voilà first step done.

Now wrap the thread around your V once.

Make sure the needle travels under your V but over the trailing thread.

Oh, and don't take it through the fabric at this point.

Et Voilà a knot appears.

Then you start a new V to the right...

add a knot...

then go leftwards for the next one!

and so on and so forth.

Liked the look of this stitch so much

I thought you might enjoy trying it.

Let me know if this was of any interest...

or indeed of any use!