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Cross-stitch
You
will come up through the fabric from the bottom at 1, an down at 2
diagonally through fabric. Hold on to about an inch of the end of
your thread so it doesn't pull through the fabric:
Front
On
the back, when you come up for the next stitch, tack your floss tail
under the thread coming up through the hole:
Back
Then
come back down from the top right to bottom left to finish your X:
Alright,
now, if you have a row of stitches to stitch of the same color, you
don't want to make individual crosses, it makes the finished product
look bumpy and uneven. What you do is make just half the cross stitch
for each count and then come back down the row doing the rest of the
stitch:
First
stitch
Second stitch
Come
up at 1, down at 2, up at 3, down at 4, etc. The red stitches are
now going back over the first
stitches to make your X.
If
you have a bunch of rows of one color all you have to do is count
the stitches in the first row and stitch half the X. Then count the
next row and stitch half the X, etc. until you finish the colored
area, then work backwards and finish the X's.
In
this example, the squares that are marked with the ll are white, the
\ is ecru, and the squares with the squares in them are black. The
circle is a french knot for the eye in white.
Pinoak Designs Home Products How To X-stitch (part2) About Us Contact Us Links
How To Cross-stitch
You will come up through the fabric from the bottom at 1, an down at 2 diagonally through fabric. Hold on to about an inch of the end of your thread so it doesn't pull through the fabric:
Front
On the back, when you come up for the next stitch, tack your floss tail under the thread coming up through the hole:
Back
Then come back down from the top right to bottom left to finish your X:
Alright, now, if you have a row of stitches to stitch of the same color, you don't want to make individual crosses, it makes the finished product look bumpy and uneven. What you do is make just half the cross stitch for each count and then come back down the row doing the rest of the stitch:
First stitch
Second stitch
Come
up at 1, down at 2, up at 3, down at 4, etc. The red stitches are
now going back over the first
stitches to make your X.
If you have a bunch of rows of one color all you have to do is count the stitches in the first row and stitch half the X. Then count the next row and stitch half the X, etc. until you finish the colored area, then work backwards and finish the X's.
In this example, the squares that are marked with the ll are white, the \ is ecru, and the squares with the squares in them are black. The circle is a french knot for the eye in white.