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    How to Teach Yourself Cross Stitch With DIY Projects from Beginner to Expert
    How to Teach Yourself Cross Stitch With DIY Projects from Beginner to Expert
    How to Teach Yourself Cross Stitch With DIY Projects from Beginner to Expert
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    How to Teach Yourself Cross Stitch With DIY Projects from Beginner to Expert

    By Dueep Jyot Singh

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    Table of Contents

    Introduction
    Threads Tip
    How to Fit the Cloth in Your Hoop
    Choosing Your Project
    Cashmere Stitch
    Tent Stitch
    Continental stitch
    Basket weave Stitch
    Half Cross Stitch
    Making Your Charts
    DIY Elephant Project
    Butterfly
    Quilt Design Pillow
    Blocking your canvas
    Lily Project
    Parrot Project
    Making Your Graph in an Excel Worksheet
    Conclusion
    Author Bio
    Publisher

    Introduction

    Cross stitch is one of the easiest and most elegant embroidery arts, known to man, for millenniums. In ancient times, it was used, to make needlework designs, which were beautiful, imaginative and creative. All one needed was plenty of time, and the will to make something beautiful which would be passed on in the family as an heirloom.

    And that is why, when I was at school, it was necessary for all of us students to learn how to embroider a fine seam, do crusted samplers, and learn other engine needlework arts and crafts, like lace making, which were traditionally taught to the nuns in their convents. As they were our teachers, we learned how to make Irish lace, and other needlepoint projects, using a large number of stitches like Florentine stitch, basket weave stitch, Cashmere stitch, chain stitch, Continental stitch, diamond eyelet stitch, cross stitch, French knots, cross stitch trame, reverse basket weave stitch, mosaic stitch, slanting goblin stitch, Smyrna stitch, straight goblin stitch, tent stitch, upright cross stitch, triple cross stitch, tent stitch, etc.

    Many of these stitches are traditional and many of them have been forgotten, because people really do not have the time, energy, or the inclination to sit for hours, doing embroidery on a hoop, like a lady of leisure or like Mary Queen of Scots, with her 4 Mary's, her ladies in waiting, who were her constant companions at court and during her long years of imprisonment, where they just sat quietly, throughout the day, embroidering pieces of fine art.

    Needlepoint is normally done on canvas, which is a sturdy fabric built to last. It is an open weave fabric. It is used as a basic framework for the stitches that you are going to work into it.

    It is available in a large number of weaves, and the sizes are arranged according to the number of threads present vertically per inch.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherMendon Cottage Books
    Release dateMar 16, 2017
    ISBN9781370764129
    How to Teach Yourself Cross Stitch With DIY Projects from Beginner to Expert

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      How to Teach Yourself Cross Stitch With DIY Projects from Beginner to Expert - Dueep Jyot Singh

      How to Teach Yourself Cross Stitch

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      Dueep Jyot Singh

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      Table of Contents

      Introduction

      Threads Tip

      How to Fit the Cloth in Your Hoop

      Choosing Your Project

      Cashmere Stitch

      Tent Stitch

      Continental stitch

      Basket weave Stitch

      Half Cross Stitch

      Making Your Charts

      DIY Elephant Project

      Butterfly

      Quilt Design Pillow

      Blocking your canvas

      Lily Project

      Parrot Project

      Making Your Graph in an Excel Worksheet

      Conclusion

      Author Bio

      Publisher

      Introduction

      Cross stitch is one of the easiest and most elegant embroidery arts, known to man, for millenniums. In ancient times, it was used, to make needlework designs, which were beautiful, imaginative and creative. All one needed was plenty of time, and the will to make something beautiful which would be passed on in the family as an heirloom.

      And that is why, when I was at school, it was necessary for all of us students to learn how to embroider a fine seam, do crusted samplers, and learn other engine needlework arts and crafts, like lace making, which were traditionally taught to the nuns in their convents. As they were our teachers, we learned how to make Irish lace, and other needlepoint projects, using a large number of stitches like Florentine stitch, basket weave stitch, Cashmere stitch, chain stitch, Continental stitch, diamond eyelet stitch, cross stitch, French knots, cross stitch trame, reverse basket weave stitch, mosaic stitch, slanting goblin stitch, Smyrna stitch, straight goblin stitch, tent stitch, upright cross stitch, triple cross stitch, tent stitch, etc.

      Many of these

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