Ok - I'm nearly done stitching the name of DD's hockey team on a piece of 14 count plastic canvas. I used #5 pearl cotton - maybe my first mistake. It will stand out and boy do my fingers hurt from pulling the back course through.
Now - I originally planned to use a back stitch alphabet to add the league name and player level. Then I got the bright idea to use a longer stitch for the background in floss - sort of a satin stitch look.
NOW - can I do a back stitch over the satin stitch? On fabric, I'd say yes, but on the PC?????
Have you gotten yourself a needle-puller of some sort? As in a hemostat, roach clip, locking tweezer kind of thing? When I'm doing NP with "tight" thread - I end up using my small hemostat a lot. The LNS even sells some that I think ToolTron (who make inexpensive, colored handle, scissors - that work great for general use) makes some clamps that are the size of embroidery scissors. I'd definitely invest in some - and LMK if you don't have - I'll pick some up for you today and throw in mail with other stuff.
I don't see why not. See above - you might want something to pull with. If nothing else - get some little stick on your finger leather thimbles - quilting store would have.
Patience, eh! I'm sure they'll be lovely when done. I hate plastic canvas - and only use it with yarn - take that back - haven't used it in many years.
FWIW, at the fabric store I ran into someone that used to hang with our stitch 'n bitch group. She was buying 13 yards of silk charmeuse - for her wedding dress. Which is going to be a ren-type dress. Doing an embroidered stomacher, and for the head "an Elizabethan cap" made of... Plastic canvas. Interesting - of course her telling me that under all this will be white cowboy boots, well - it's a picture. Though, she's a very willowy - thin, muscular, black woman with very, very short hair - and she can wear about anything.
LMK if there's anything you need sent to help - priority would get there maybe tomorrow.
I've been giving this some thought and this is what I came up with. It probably would be easier to do the lettering in half cross stitches, just two stiches wide and then do long stitches around the letters. The long stitches can be different lengths, something like a brick pattern, or whatever you think might be hockey related. You could then even go into the same holes if necessary to close them up.
I know that I'm not very good at describing things, so this is probably as clear as mud, but I tried.
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