2026 Slow Stitching Project - Page 9 - E1

I am following K3N Cloth Tales' slow stitch project for 2026.  Her prompt this week prompt was Earth, English Paper Piecing and Ermine Stitch.

I loved the Earth and skipped the EPP. 

I prepared a navy blue piece to fit my book (7"T x 8"W) and invisible basted to my foundation layer.

I did some research and decide to loosely represent the land mass of the continents. I then drew a circle with space to expand.  I divided the circle based on land mass.  Cut the paper apart and dug into my scrap bin to find colors that represented the continents. 

The orange top left is Asia, top right is Africa, the next green is tropical South America, the purple is Australia, the blue is North America, the paisley is Europe and the blue ellipse at the bottom is Antarctica.  I stitched my pieces down with running stitch in coordinated thread. I spread the piece apart because the continents are all surrounded by water. I liked the white stitched row around the earth for atmosphere that K3N used.  I put my stars beyond the line in space using the Ermine Stitch.