June 24, 2026
Prickly Bits & Linen Choices
I’ve been stitching a second (or is it third?) approach to a small blackberry project that I’ll be releasing here on Needle ‘n Thread as a stitch-along this summer.
With this project, I wanted to use a natural colored linen, because I’m including some blossoms that are very light, and they will show up better against a natural background as opposed to a white background. I also like the look of this type of design (only slightly stylized, a bit “loose” and natural) on natural colored linen. It works.
The linen I’m using is not high count – it’s a 32/33 thread count weave (so not perfectly “even weave”) – but the weave is fairly full. The linen threads fill up the fabric surface pretty well, so you don’t have that airy, separated-weave look that you’ll often find in some linens made for counted work.
