pattern following

pattern following

by Tracy
(Kingston NH)

Hi, I am new to this,and I found a cool picture of a witch. It is done on black material,and I have been reading your info. Do you always just eyeball a pattern onto a blank material, or do you ever transfer a drawing to the material to follow? If so, any ideas how to do that?
thanks
Tracy

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Counted Cross-Stitch/Thread on Black
by: Debbie Rice

Each square of pattern grid is a square/hole on fabric and represents one stitch. You start in center of fabric (if center of pattern not marked, usually is by arrows off to side of grid or by a cross-hair dead center, you'll need to find on pattern yourself before starting).

Good beginner directions and/or videos for beginning cross stitch are at http://yarntree.com/007learnvideo.wmv (more beginner stuff on their home page), http://hoffmandis.com/video.cfm (yes it's Frank from Trading Spaces who also has a cross stitch design company called Mosey 'N Me), http://www.dmc-usa.com/majic/pageServer/1d0100003n/en_US/Cross-stitch-home.html

On black fabric it helps to stitch wearing light colored pants or with a white towel, white pillow case or other white fabric flung over your lap (the white fabric shows through fabric holes and makes them easier to see).

Black and navy actually aren't the best choice for your first project. Neither are large pieces; consider a small ornament kit (most big box craft stores have $1 to $2 ones with plastic frames that will let you practice the basics).

If kit cames with fabric, nevermind. If you have to go out and buy fabric yourself for pattern, Add 2 to 3 inches to design size on all four sides to get fabric size. You can't stitch all the way to the edge (even if you luck into the impossible and edges of fabric are 100% perfectly even and never fray so that you manage to stitch to edge and you never disturbed your edge stitches while adding more -- there's no room for framer to mount in frame or a sewer to get a seam allowance to make into a pillow or wall hanging).

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Following Pattern
by: Valerie Kalyani

It depends on the type of stitching you plan to do. If you are doing surface embroidery, yes, transfer the design to the cloth. If you are doing counted work, you count the threads to determine your placement.

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