Cross stiching methods
Oh, no doubt I’ll have millions of questions as I start other projects . I suppose I should post questions on rec.crafts.textiles . . but it’s so much more fun doing it on abml instead, especially since I know there are people here more knowledgeable than me. So if anyone gets sick of cross-stitch questions [...]
Manipulation of Cross Stiches
I compared Pattern Maker Standard to Cross Stitch Designer on the 50×50 bitmap with a simple 3-color drawing (Sanrio Bunny – too cute!). Cross Stitch gave a slightly cleaner result, so less clean-up. I think for simple patterns Cross Stitch Designer is a winner. If one needs detailed work with more manipulation or a more [...]
How to Develop Skills in Cross stitching?
Barbara Baatz has been doing Faeries with Woodland/Seasonal motifs. Some of Theresa Wentzler’s designs touch on fantasy themes, but some of her small seasonal designs for the Just Cross Stitch magazine are hidden delights. Take a look at her Magical Night and Father Winter. Alma Lynne did several books on Santa in every month of [...]
Help Needed For Cross Stitching?
Now that’s something I’d like to be able to do, think I’ll start looking out info on X-stitch. I’ve never been one for giving a damn about what other people consider to be a “mans hobby” or a “woman’s hobby”. Completely irrelevant imho, it’s whether you enjoy it that matters. FIrstly, with a name like [...]
Methods of Cross stitching
We can convert one of your full color pictures into a cross stitch pattern. Everything from a wedding picture to a picture from your past vacation can become cross stitch art. Be it an iron on pattern, counted cross stitch, or a fabric with the pattern printed on it, we are sure to have a [...]
Cross stitching tips
I think you’re talking ‘waste canvas’. You can use tapestry canvas or embroidery linen scraps (I wouldn’t use aida) but the fabric called waste canvas is the stuff to use. It’s designed to be basted down, stitched over and removed thread by thread. The one that I’ve usually bought is marked every 5th row with [...]
Discussions Regarding Cross Stitches
I was a participant in three group projects to make cross stitch sampler quilts for girl friends getting married. Then when I got married, I received a beautiful one too! Mine is made up of (I think) 15 (3 across x 5 down) cross stitch squares with hunter green sashing and border. The funny thing [...]
Cross Stitching Vs Needle Point
My older brother is excelent at cross stitching and found a lot of his biker friends held him in great esteem as they paid him to draw and design pictures and then embroider or cross stitch them on to things like Denim jackets and jeans, (for years i had a long denim pencil skirt that [...]
Different patterns of Cross Stitching
The pattern should have a recommended backing to work with… linen is pretty but a big pain in the butt… I’d say do it with normal backing in whatever color you want and then use a separate fabric type entirely for the back and sides (if you have them) for the count? once again, the [...]
Techniques for Cross stitching
I heard somewhere that there is a way to cross-stitch on both sides on the cloth at the same time. Hmm, does that sound right? Let me try this way: if i’m stitching a bear on the side of the cloth facing me, instead of loose strings and lines on the back, there is also [...]
Information on Cross Stitching
Dover Needlework Series publishes a book, “Celtic Charted Designs,” edited by Co Spinhoven. It has a great selection of over 300 mix and match medallions, borders and heraldry figures. ISBN 0-486-25411-9 There are other books in this series, mostly with “Folk” or “Peasant” in the title. I don’t own these and have only glanced at [...]
Measures to Improve Cross Stiching
When I drove, I used to do my own minor services myself, changing filters and that horrible brown gluey stuff, etc. Caused no dilemmas for me – it saved me money and I liked the power that making my fuel mix richer or poorer gave me – if the car was idling funny I didn’t [...]
