A woman who saw my art, approached me if i would agree to take her old inherited xst and turn it into table cloths for her .... i asked her if she won`t mind it getting dirty and having to rewash it many times? She said , she doesn`t care much for it , anyway , and might as well `get some use of it, beside filling the closets!" i refused and adviced her to at least make a big wall piece with all . mirjam
Ot ,, she wants to turn xst into tablle cloth ??
Aug 19, 2005
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That`s a good idea, but on the other hand my grandmother and aunts embroidered many tablecloths and traycloths with cross stitch (mostly crinoline ladies) and they washed beautifully for years. In fact I still have a couple of traycloths tucked away somewhere, still as good as…
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That`s a good idea, but on the other hand my grandmother and aunts embroidered many tablecloths and traycloths with cross stitch (mostly crinoline ladies) and they washed beautifully for years. In fact I still have a couple of traycloths tucked away somewhere, still as good as new after regular washing.
Pat P
You didn`t say canvas! LOL! No - in that case - definitely NOT!
Pat P
Well I think most of us here (Europe and America etc.)would take it for granted that most cross stitch is done on cloth (Aida or Evenweave). Is it more common to do it on canvas where you are?
Pat P
Because if we embroidered all our lives, we would naturally intuit whether you meant cross stitch on linen, cotton, canvas, or some other fabric?
Elizabeth
Mirjam Bruck-Cohen wrote: [ or sack canvas which was what we used when we had no proper
In other words, a coarse, loosely woven cloth? Dianne
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