Back of work

Who is Rich's Stitches? I finally got inot the photos, and found rich's stitches, and the photo of the tiger - back of work, and I have no idea how anyone can make it look like that. Mine looks like a dogs breakfast and it has never really bothered me. Okay, not quite like a dogs breakfast, but nowhere NEAR as neat as that!

Catherine

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pecan
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What is Victorian stitch? Basketweave?

Dora

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bungadora

Oh yes! I've looked at that stitch contemplating making rugs. Thank you for clarifying.

Nice piggies. Dora

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bungadora

I make a game out of it. As I plane to place a stitch on the front side I imagine what it will look like on the back side. If I think it is close to what the stitch looks like on the front I due the stitch, if not I adjust a bit. Something like this... Two stitches in holes 1,2,3,4,5,6

1 2 5 3 4 6 Up thru 4, down thru 1, up thru 3, down thru 2, up thru 6, down thru 2, up thru 4, down thru 5. Bury the tails under the threads at the back and snip off neatly. I was taught that in order to maintain a constant tension in the floss with a minimum of thread twisting to follow this rule; A thread flowing vertically on the back side is to be followed or preceded by the same thread flowing on a diagonal on the front side, as much as possible. In my example above the vertical thread part on the back (1 to 3) is preceded by the diagonal thread part on the front (4 to 1). The sharp angle 4 to 1 to 3 tends to prevent the 4 to 1 part on the front from twisting too tight or twisting to loose. Needlepoint is quite a bit easier to keep neat as most threads front and back are on the diagonal. Just about anyone can fallow instructions and get the front side looking pretty good. The challenge if you want one, is to get the back side looking as close to the front side as possible because there are no instructions for that. One has to really think about what they are doing. LOL Being a neatnik the back side of my stuff looks pretty much the same as the front side. - I like the challenge. There are a few pictures of my stitching on RCTN photos. I had to label the front sides so the framer would know which side was which.

The main thing is that you enjoy the craft.

Fred

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nothing changes, nothing changes.Don't back stitch to email, just stitchit.

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Fred

I've saved this post so I can concentrate on it sometime. Way too much for my brain right now. Thanks.

Catherine

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pecan

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