SBQ Prompt
” What tips would you give to a new stitcher to help her stitch faster and neater while still keeping it enjoyable?”
Don’t run before you can walk – whilst it’s great to be working on the large, impressive designs, you need to start slow, with the right sized smaller designs.
Don’t be afraid to experiment on fabrics and find the ones that work for you
Ensure you have good lighting. You need to see where you’ve been and where you’re going. Ties in with….
Do your best to keep all your stitches going in one direction. Sounds daft. Sounds simple. but it’s more complicated to achieve than you would think. Once in a while, you’ll stitch a whole bank of stitches, then look back and go “D’oh!”.
Don’t get too worked up about the back of your design. Most of the time the item will be made up into something else (framed, as a cushion etc) and you’re there to enjoy yourself. If a person is rude enough to look and then comment on the back, then they’re rude enough to be told to go stitch it themselves.
(want to know where I got this prompt from? go here)
Tags: Cross Stitch, sbq prompt
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December 15, 2007 at 1:48 pm
very interesting, but I don’t agree with you
Idetrorce
December 15, 2007 at 7:19 pm
@Idetrorce….You know what? Tough. My blog, my views.
I might have cared a little if you had posted a link to your own equivalent post giving your own tips to novice stitchers or put “…and here’s why”, and expanded out what you disagreed with. As it is, you have put nothing that could possibly add to my blog, or anything positive to reflect on yourself