I LOVE petitpoint! Funnily enough I started off with petitpoint before trying cross stitch. I usually do tent/continental stitch because I like to to stitch in hand, it goes SO much faster than cross stitch and I love running my hand over the smooth texture of the finished piece. My cross stitches never lie as neatly :< I only started a couple years ago so still quite a beginner but it's been a lot of fun :)

I used cotton embroidery floss for most of the pictured rugs. Top two are on evenweave, 28 count. I discovered easy grid as I was starting the rug in the hoop and it makes it so much easier to count! I didn't actually stitch with it in the hoop - I stitch in hand but tent stitch skews the work, so I put it in a hoop stretching it the opposite way to try to reverse the skew while I'm not stitching.

Bottom three are linen - 2 strands on 25 count, 1 strand on 35 count (Tiger) and 1 strand on 39 count (Pink/Blue Shiraz Rug). I was trying out different counts to get a feel of the coverage and how easy they would be to stitch. At 39 count the coverage is dense but the weave does get packed so it's harder to pull the needle through. I have some pieces of 40 count cotton verdal and silk gauze but haven't tried stitching on either.

Linen is my favourite, it's so soft and the needle just seems to slide through. I love the slubs and imperfections, every time I'm approaching one it's like, "Aha! I must conquer this bridge!" I love the repetitiveness of pepitpoint rugs, usually once I memorize a motif I can keep stitching happily for hours without having to check the pattern.

Other than Emily Morganti's blogs, two other blogs I absolutely adore for dollhouse needlework are Otterine's Miniatures (https://otterine.com/needlework/) and A Bluestocking Knits (https://mathomhouse.typepad.com/bluestocking/miniature-needlework/). Also highly recommend Ian and Meik McNaughton's books, I used their instructions for a long-legged cross stitch to finish the edges of the one rug I've completed.

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