Sailor Stitch and Sailer’s Edge

In a new twist, Sharon of Pintangle has given us two stitches this week for the Take a Stitch Tuesday challenge.  They are similar to each other with only a little variation.  I think they work well together.  In fact as I was stitching, I thought of many different ways to use these stitches to make different looks.  If all goes well, I try some of them out.  For now, it was ARMADILLO time.  Here are his leg armor.

Four leg and 4 foot plates.

The foot plate uses the sailor’s edge in two shades of pink and one of blue crewel wool.

Here I’ve used the sailor stitch around the outer edge and an alternating sailor down the center.  Two rows of running stitch give accent and bring in some color from the fabric of his underbelly.

Armadillos have long, sharp claws.  These are vintage keys collected from my husband’s great uncle Clarence.  They are glued together in groups of three and wired onto the armature with purple plastic coated wire.

All four legs finished!  Is it just me, or does any one else see chicken legs here?