Hi all I am new to this forum. I've been doing cross stitching for two years now since my friend introduced me to it and I am hooked, I just can't put it down. I do big projects but mainly now do small squares which I make into cards and I am now planning to send some off to charity as they keep mounting up.
Does anyone find their hands hurt after cross stitching for a while? How do you remedy this?
Do your hands hurt
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welsh wendy
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do your hands hurt
Hi Jill 
Welcome to this great forum.
I spend a lot of time xstitching due to a disability that stops me doing much of anything else. I get pain in my wrist more but sometimes my hands as well. You could remedy this by buying a glove especially for crafts but I find these expensive. I just get a tubeigrip making sure that when folded it comes up to your first knuckle cut a whole in it for your thumb and then folding it over to give extra protection.
Hope this makes sense. Happy stitching
Welcome to this great forum.
I spend a lot of time xstitching due to a disability that stops me doing much of anything else. I get pain in my wrist more but sometimes my hands as well. You could remedy this by buying a glove especially for crafts but I find these expensive. I just get a tubeigrip making sure that when folded it comes up to your first knuckle cut a whole in it for your thumb and then folding it over to give extra protection.
Hope this makes sense. Happy stitching
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StitchingAgain
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Your hand gets sore because it's tensed in the same position all the time.
Try clenching you fist really hard and then opening your hand fast -- like you were startled. Then move your fingers as if playing the piano, rotate your thumb. Generally get the hand moving. I find this helps a lot.
Try clenching you fist really hard and then opening your hand fast -- like you were startled. Then move your fingers as if playing the piano, rotate your thumb. Generally get the hand moving. I find this helps a lot.
Last edited by Serinde on Sat Mar 18, 2006 2:26 pm, edited 1 time in total.
Yep I get sore hands. neck and back not only with stitching but also on the computer. It's best have to take frequent breaks and walk around for a bit just the same as if you were at an office or on a long flight. And as Stitching Again said stretch out your fingers frequently to give the muscles a rest. If you don't take care there is a danger of developing carpel tunnel syndrome.
Joan
Joan
As well as a cross stitcher I am a invisible mender in a woollen mill for work. Often sitting the whole day mendiing a thread that may be in the wrong positioned. So 70 metres is a long sew. It is sore on neck back and hand. You fell as if you are being dragged in. I take short breaks, but am expected to do work in a set time.
