Someone graphed a picture for me, I want to put it on a hooded sweat shirt, how would I center it on this sweat shirt, is there waste canvas that comes in different size like cross stitching? Is there a site that can help calculate these things? Thanks, Carol In WI
Hi Carol,
I can't answer your questions but I can send you a WC booklet that explains the process and includes pictures and how to do's.
Also, I have waste canvas in 12 ct, 10 ct, and 6.5 ct. I have it in rolls. If you need any of these sizes, please let me send you some. Oddly, it was just yesterday, as I was moving things around, that I wondered what I would ever do with all that waste canvas. A lifetime supply for sure.
I'm in Oregon so it wouldn't take long to get to you...
mag
I'm not certain that I understand exactly what you're asking about waste canvas, but I might be able to help w/centering the design. Since you have a graph, I assume you know the number of stitches in both directions; let's use 100 stitches wide by 100 stitches long. If you use 14-count waste canvas, your design would be a about 7.1 inches in each direction (that is, 100 stitches/14 stitches per inch). So, what I would do, is cut out a piece of paper that is the size of your stitched area (7.1 inches by 7.1 inches), lay your sweatshirt out, then place your paper where you think the center is. Just "eyeball" the center. Once that's placed, you can measure the distance from the edge of the piece of paper to the edge of your sweatshirt in each direction. Then, I would think it should be fairly easy to "fiddle" with the placement of the paper until you have the same distance from the right edge of the paper to the right seam of the sweatshirt as you do from the left edge of the paper to the left seam of the sweatshirt. Same for top and bottom.
At least I use the a similar process for placing designs on the center of towels or bread clothes. I find I generally can't count the threads as accurately, as I can use a paper template.
Also, if it's pleasing to you, does it matter if the design is perfectly centered? After all, who is going to come up to you and measure your sweatshirt while you're wearing it?
I hope this helps!
(BTW, where are you in WI? I lived in Madison for 6 years, and completely love that town!)
I do a *lot* of waste canvas work and have written a description of how to center the design and generally work a waste canvas project. Dianne L. has kindly posted it at her website (
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