Well, it's another rainy day in NC (yahoo! we need the rain so badly!), so I guess I won't get the new plants in the ground. Urghhh. I know I'll be doing them a few at a time over the week - they've been sitting on my patio for the last three weekends waiting to be planted, and it's rained every weekend.
Therefore, I've been working on a new WIP - I've been wanting to do the Egyptian Garden by Chateliene on silk, which means using waste canvas. Well, I decided that maybe I ought to test this idea out before starting, so I started an 8" piece of a butterfly. I'm altering it to have one section that is over-one and another that is beaded. The over-two at 16-count is going well, so I know that will work, but the over-one has proven to be a bit of a bear.
What I have found so far is: Waste canvas doesn't like scroll bars, so you have to set it up flat (note to self - invest in a good slate frame!) Get the type of waste canvas that uses very fine threads, and if the pattern has over-one sections, get the type with double threads. Trying to do full croses in the over-one section doesn't work
- you wind up splitting the threads and you can't see where to put the needle on the second leg of the cross. Do the over-one section in half-crosses. If you split a thread on the waste canvas you will never get that thread out w/o a fight. And the fight shows. To fix a stitching error, you will have to unthread the needle and remove the stitches that way, you cannot "unstitch".
I'll post more as I get further in the test.