Folksy Victoriana - Update!
Uwaaah! It's nearly finished D:
I had major disaster with the cream thread! I had ran out and they don't sell DMC anywhere near me...however I found that a shop in St. Helens sold it. So me and my mum went, bought some. Got home. IT WAS THE WRONG ONE. Seriously, I could have stabbed someone. ALSO! I had miscounted a bit with this colour so it really ( Read more... )
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Oh, wait, I need to ask you something. Something that I should already know, but I don't... how do you anchor the thread to the fabric? I've read that you don't knot it off like in embroidery, but that you leave a "tail" of thread and embroider over it, right? Like, what do you do with the last bit in a section? You'd have to have knots at some points, right?
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There are two main ways to start off stitching. There's the method of leaving a tail like you mentioned, and if you are using two strands of thread you can start off with the 'loop method' which is my preferred way to start as its much tidier ^^ You take one long strand of thread and fold it in half. Thread the eye of the needle with the two ends. Come up through the fabric as normal, leaving the 'loop' on the underside. As your needle goes back through the fabric, you pass it through the loop and pull tight, securing the stitch ^^ Hope that makes sense?
When you come to end of a section you secure the thread by weaving it under the stitches on the back of the fabric. So say you were stitching a straight line, when you come to the end, you just push the needle back under the stitches you've just made. Sorta like starting with a tail in reverse ^^
I've seen some cross stitches where the back is as neat as the front o___o I just don't know how they can keep is so neat! Mine's always a bit of a wreck D:
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And yeah, the back of my embroidery is often pretty hilarious :p But then sometimes it looks better than the front, which is frustrating -_-
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