Wow, thanks for the links. I'm just starting a project that includes a little bit of embroidery work and I've been practicing stitches. This gal is amazing. What a talent. And her blog is really fun, too.
May I add a tip on doing pretty blanket stitch? The 'challenge' is in getting the stitches all the same height. You can place a ruler covering from the edge of fabric about how high the stitches need to be and drag a line of chalk . . . just for a few inches until you get into the rhythm of the stitch. Doesn't matter how thick the chalk line is because you are only stitching 'to' it. The chalk (white, please) easily brushes off. The blue water-soluble pen would be neater but you may not want to launder your embroidery. Our Pat on the Green taught me that thickness of a line doesn't matter - it is only the edge that you're using. Speaking of - where oh where is our Pat? Polly
"Sunny" Wow, thanks for the links. I'm just starting a project that includes a
unless of course you're doing a special design that has varied stitch lengths, like zigzag type mountains (short, medium, long, medium, short, medium, long, medium, short etc) or whatever else one can think of to do. i was thinking if you have an odd design regarding the lengths of the blanket stitch you could maybe draw it out on cereal box cardboard first, then cut it and use as a template rather than drawing on the material. dont know how that would work but the thot came to mind so i'm typing it, fwiw. j.
"Polly Esther" wrote ... May I add a tip on doing pretty blanket stitch? The 'challenge' is in getting the stitches all the same height. You can place a ruler covering from the edge of fabric about how high the stitches need to be and drag a line of chalk . . . just for a few inches until you get into the rhythm of the stitch. Doesn't matter how thick the chalk line is because you are only stitching 'to' it. The chalk (white, please) easily brushes off. The blue water-soluble pen would be neater but you may not want to launder your embroidery. Our Pat on the Green taught me that thickness of a line doesn't matter - it is only the edge that you're using. Speaking of - where oh where is our Pat? Polly
"Sunny" Wow, thanks for the links. I'm just starting a project that includes a little bit of embroidery work and I've been practicing stitches. This
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