This is what the piece looks like now. I have removed the threads to make a wide border all round and have worked almost halfway up the background behind the horse in a variety of stitches. The stitches that I have used so far are: chained border, three sided, four sided, waffle, honeycomb and spaced satin. For the Diploma you need to use about five stitches, but I have taken a more the merrier approach so far.
This photograph gives a slightly closer view of the stitches. As you can see, I have just left the space within the horse outline completely untouched.
The border has been hemstitched; the drawn threads woven inand blanket stitched and the bars worked.
There is still a lot of work to do though.
