How do you start?
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How do you start?
I have seen on another post that someone started their project by counting to the edge of the picture and starting to stitch from an outside edge.
I am a big chicken and I start all of my work from the center of the material and the center of the pattern. I always work up to the face. I love to have the face done first. That is just something I do.
I like to stich things with faces, that is why the current square I am doing with the building is so hard for me to get excited about.
So how do you ladies start?????
I am a big chicken and I start all of my work from the center of the material and the center of the pattern. I always work up to the face. I love to have the face done first. That is just something I do.
I like to stich things with faces, that is why the current square I am doing with the building is so hard for me to get excited about.
So how do you ladies start?????
yip, I'm with everyone else on this one, I start in the middle and work my way out but I've just bought a chart book and the chart is over 9 pages so when I start it I will have to start from the edge and work my way out....It makes me quite nervous but I'm sure it will be fine (I hope)....Will keep you all informed when I start it....
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I start in the middle, like the others. I'm too afradi that if I were to count wrong, I would end up with the design off centre. But, if you think about it, starting from the middle of the fabric, the overall tension of the stitching is "radiating", like spokes in a wheel, thus keeping it even. Does that sound logical? Anyway, that's my point of view!
I also start from the middle, and begin with the biggest chunk of colour in the general vicinity. I'm stitching a wild flower garland for my mother at the moment, and the centre is a very large blank (except for some back stitching that makes up a spider web). The anxiety attacks I went through as I had to figure out which corner would be best to begin with aged me overnight, but it's turned out great. I will, however, go back to my tried and tested stitch-from-the-middle technique as soon aspossible!
I usually begin with the corner. This makes me think, that I won't make mistakes from the very begining
I am thinking about starting any pattern from the middle, but as it would be a new experience to me, I am a bit afraid. Do you color your charts --> indicating what area is stitched? I find this too difficult I better count
I am thinking about starting any pattern from the middle, but as it would be a new experience to me, I am a bit afraid. Do you color your charts --> indicating what area is stitched? I find this too difficult I better count
When I'm working on my current project I always carry with me the threads, charts, aida, thread cutters and a pencil....I always pencil in each line that I do to make sure I don't stitch the same line twice...which I've done before and didn't realise until I was about 15-20 lines up and it wasn't matching up...
I've updated my gallery now xxx
No matter what size of project I am doing I always start in the middle working the top right hand quarter first then in the following order the bottom right hand quarter, top left hand quarter and finish with the bottom left hand quarter. That way I am not handling the stitched sections too much, particularly if I am not using my floor stand.
I always make a copy of the pattern I am doing and as I stitch then I mark off the squares if I don't then I forget were I left off and I have done the same row twice and then spent two days picking out all the work I had done. Boy was I mad. Now I mark all my work and I still make mistakes once in a will.