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Who is Rich's Stitches?
I finally got inot the photos, and found rich's stitches, and the photo
of the tiger - back of work, and I have no idea how anyone can make it
look like that. Mine looks like a dogs breakfast and it has never
really bothered me. Okay, not quite like a dogs breakfast, but nowhere
NEAR as neat as that!

Catherine

On Dec 30, 7:28*am, Jangchub wrote:


I don't know what Rich's Stitches is, but the only way to have a back
turn out neat is never go over stitches *and always go under them,
leave no tails, and drive yourself crazy. *My backs are neat enough
for framing purposes, but certainly not perfect. *When I do
needlepoint it is easier. *I always use the Victorian stitch so the
back comes out very nicely, but I haven't done needlepoint in years.
The last ones I did were Elizabeth Bradley, her mommy pig and piglets
and the lambs; two very large pieces.
Victoria


What is Victorian stitch? Basketweave?

Dora

On Dec 30, 8:16*am, Jangchub wrote:
On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 06:50:06 -0800 (PST), bungadora





wrote:
On Dec 30, 7:28*am, Jangchub wrote:

I don't know what Rich's Stitches is, but the only way to have a back
turn out neat is never go over stitches *and always go under them,
leave no tails, and drive yourself crazy. *My backs are neat enough
for framing purposes, but certainly not perfect. *When I do
needlepoint it is easier. *I always use the Victorian stitch so the
back comes out very nicely, but I haven't done needlepoint in years.
The last ones I did were Elizabeth Bradley, her mommy pig and piglets
and the lambs; two very large pieces.
Victoria

What is Victorian stitch? *Basketweave?

Dora

Actually, it's a cross stitch so you use a double layer of wool and
positively no canvas shows through. *

I did these designs, the pig and *her *piglets and the lambs. *They
are both about 13x18. *When I stitched it, I would go the whole row of
color, then return back the whole row with a second stitch over the
first. *She usually gives enough for the whole design to be completed
using her recommended *Victorian stitch. *Mine are framed, but I am
seriously considering making pillows of them. *They are built to hold
up as rugs, or upolstery for stools or ottoman's. *Certainly they're
expensive. *I think for each kit I paid 150 dollars.


Oh yes! I've looked at that stitch contemplating making rugs. Thank
you for clarifying.

Nice piggies.
Dora

"pecan" wrote in message
...
Who is Rich's Stitches?
I finally got inot the photos, and found rich's stitches, and the photo of
the tiger - back of work, and I have no idea how anyone can make it look
like that. Mine looks like a dogs breakfast and it has never really
bothered me. Okay, not quite like a dogs breakfast, but nowhere NEAR as
neat as that!

Catherine

I make a game out of it. As I plane to place a stitch on the front side I
imagine what it will look like on the back side. If I think it is close to
what the stitch looks like on the front I due the stitch, if not I adjust a
bit. Something like this...
Two stitches in holes 1,2,3,4,5,6
1 2 5
3 4 6
Up thru 4, down thru 1, up thru 3, down thru 2, up thru 6, down thru 2, up
thru 4, down thru 5.
Bury the tails under the threads at the back and snip off neatly.
I was taught that in order to maintain a constant tension in the floss with
a minimum of thread twisting to follow this rule; A thread flowing
vertically on the back side is to be followed or preceded by the same thread
flowing on a diagonal on the front side, as much as possible. In my example
above the vertical thread part on the back (1 to 3) is preceded by the
diagonal thread part on the front (4 to 1). The sharp angle 4 to 1 to 3
tends to prevent the 4 to 1 part on the front from twisting too tight or
twisting to loose.
Needlepoint is quite a bit easier to keep neat as most threads front and
back are on the diagonal.
Just about anyone can fallow instructions and get the front side looking
pretty good. The challenge if you want one, is to get the back side looking
as close to the front side as possible because there are no instructions for
that. One has to really think about what they are doing. LOL
Being a neatnik the back side of my stuff looks pretty much the same as the
front side. - I like the challenge.
There are a few pictures of my stitching on RCTN photos. I had to label the
front sides so the framer would know which side was which.

The main thing is that you enjoy the craft.

Fred
http://www.stitchaway.com
If nothing changes, nothing changes.
Don't back stitch to email, just stitchit.

Fred wrote:
"pecan" wrote in message
...
Who is Rich's Stitches?
I finally got inot the photos, and found rich's stitches, and the photo of
the tiger - back of work, and I have no idea how anyone can make it look
like that. Mine looks like a dogs breakfast and it has never really
bothered me. Okay, not quite like a dogs breakfast, but nowhere NEAR as
neat as that!

Catherine

I make a game out of it. As I plane to place a stitch on the front side I
imagine what it will look like on the back side. If I think it is close to
what the stitch looks like on the front I due the stitch, if not I adjust a
bit. Something like this...
Two stitches in holes 1,2,3,4,5,6
1 2 5
3 4 6
Up thru 4, down thru 1, up thru 3, down thru 2, up thru 6, down thru 2, up
thru 4, down thru 5.
Bury the tails under the threads at the back and snip off neatly.
I was taught that in order to maintain a constant tension in the floss with
a minimum of thread twisting to follow this rule; A thread flowing
vertically on the back side is to be followed or preceded by the same thread
flowing on a diagonal on the front side, as much as possible. In my example
above the vertical thread part on the back (1 to 3) is preceded by the
diagonal thread part on the front (4 to 1). The sharp angle 4 to 1 to 3
tends to prevent the 4 to 1 part on the front from twisting too tight or
twisting to loose.
Needlepoint is quite a bit easier to keep neat as most threads front and
back are on the diagonal.
Just about anyone can fallow instructions and get the front side looking
pretty good. The challenge if you want one, is to get the back side looking
as close to the front side as possible because there are no instructions for
that. One has to really think about what they are doing. LOL
Being a neatnik the back side of my stuff looks pretty much the same as the
front side. - I like the challenge.
There are a few pictures of my stitching on RCTN photos. I had to label the
front sides so the framer would know which side was which.

The main thing is that you enjoy the craft.

Fred
http://www.stitchaway.com
If nothing changes, nothing changes.
Don't back stitch to email, just stitchit.



I've saved this post so I can concentrate on it sometime. Way too much
for my brain right now.
Thanks.

Catherine

Nice to see that it is not only myself that has "neat" backs. My sister
use to work in a couple of craft-related stores and has always hated
how the backside of both my needlework and cross-stitch looks
neat enough to sometimes be hard to know which side is the front
at first look. Never really tried to do this, just what seemed to work.

"Jangchub" wrote in message
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On Tue, 30 Dec 2008 08:32:56 +0200, pecan
wrote:

Who is Rich's Stitches?
I finally got inot the photos, and found rich's stitches, and the photo
of the tiger - back of work, and I have no idea how anyone can make it
look like that. Mine looks like a dogs breakfast and it has never
really bothered me. Okay, not quite like a dogs breakfast, but nowhere
NEAR as neat as that!

Catherine

I don't know what Rich's Stitches is, but the only way to have a back
turn out neat is never go over stitches and always go under them,
leave no tails, and drive yourself crazy. My backs are neat enough
for framing purposes, but certainly not perfect. When I do
needlepoint it is easier. I always use the Victorian stitch so the
back comes out very nicely, but I haven't done needlepoint in years.
The last ones I did were Elizabeth Bradley, her mommy pig and piglets
and the lambs; two very large pieces.
Victoria

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