Fibers & stitching

Fibers & stitching

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Fibers & stitching

shadows

Textiles; Fibers & stitching

Normally in the same direction as the top half of the cross stitching, or it can be the underneath of a backstitch when it goes in the opposite direct to the backstitch.

back ground shading

Textiles; Fibers & stitching

The stitches must all be the the single top stitch of the cross. This way they will match the top stitches of the cross stitches you have stitched in the rest of the design.

lightening

Textiles; Fibers & stitching

Half stitches can be used to make parts of the design lighter.

A kit is a collection of all the materials you need to cross stitch a design. Some kits are factory made and are sealed so that we cannot check the contents. Where we have a separate chart, we can ...

needlepoint

Textiles; Fibers & stitching

Needlepoint is very similar to cross stitch, but it only uses half cross stitches. All the needlepoint designs that we sell are on painted canvases. The whole canvas is painted, and I think that ...

waste canvas

Textiles; Fibers & stitching

This is made for cross stitching on pieces of cloth or clothing which are not made of fabrics suitable for cross stitching. Waste canvas has counts of anything from 6 upwards, and can be used like ...

floss

Textiles; Fibers & stitching

Mostly this refers to a type of cotton thread. It comes in skeins of 6 strands loosely twisted together, and with a color-coded number. It is normally sewn in cross stitch using only two or three ...