Sorry. I've posted before about my method of filling in blocks of stitches. Several posts showed detailed photos but I never use labels and can't seem to locate them. So here goes.
I used to fill in blocks like roofs, houses, grass with the standard sewing method of first half of the cross the length of the row and then returning with the second half. I go from left to right /////////// and then return right to left with the other half of the cross \\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\\. Over a larger area with my tension issues, ditches appear between the rows. So I started filling the entire area in with half crosses (basically a tent stitch) working all the same direction either vertically or horizontally.
Once filled in, I complete the stitches going the opposite direction. This roof was stitched horizontally, so I would be completing with vertical. This gives a really nice appearance to the block without ditches. For me. If using an overdyed and you want the striations to be horizontal, the first fill would be vertical. Striations going top to bottom would be the opposite.
This is another fill that was completed vertical after first filling in horizontal. The left half is completed (and no ditches!) and the right only has the first cross. I don't believe there will ever be another post that has those two words this many times. Wow. Am I explaining it?
I turn the piece upside down every other row so I can utilize the sewing method (top to bottom).
This is the way the back looks when using this method, a bunch of squares.
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I remember you telling me about turning the piece I'm working on.......it has helped in many situations.
Was going to order some floss from Sullivan's but with the tax and postage decided against doing it.........will use something I have.
The back of your house looks so neat compared to what I work on.....I'm the only one who will know !
Am keeping my leaf blower in the house.....LOL......no more sweeping of leaves off of my deck. It did a beautiful job yesterday. Glad I have my own special room to keep it.
Looking forward to turkey and sides in November.
Charlotte in Va.
Your explanation is very clear and the pics help a lot. I remember at least one other time when you explained your method (also very clear!). Now if I could only *remember* to try this when I next stitch a house, it might actually help me, LOL.
Great explanation of how you do big blocks of color! So it's more a tension thing, not really a floss color thing. Yesterday, my brain was smushing things around to this was to fix color changes with variegated or over-dyed threads. It didn't dawn on me that just like stitching normally... no - let's use traditionally that the top layer of the stitches will show the most color.
Wow! You sure put alot of thought into those stitches,and you explained it very well. I just stitch whether it's hand dyed or just DMC. If I notice the color variation isnt what I like, I just switch it up. The one thing I do notice, with DMC, is if you stitch in one direction and then on the next row, go the opposite direction, there is a definite diffence in the nap of the floss, which makes the row a bit more raised. I'm not totally sold on the hand dyed. I still think DMC still has the most lovely colors. Im doing "Christmas Garden" by BBD, and I hate two of the called for flosses, (Calico Kitty & Fool's Gold) but since I started it and have it 1/3 of the way done, I'll have to finish with it. I wish I had been brave enough to change them from the get go.
I tend to go in any direction - whatever I feel like when I pick up the needle. Sometimes I turn the piece, sometimes I don't. I've had a few "ditches" in mine, but they don't bother me.
I did remember your lesson and tried it a while ago. It is a good one. I have tension issues now and then. I am still a rube!
Thought of you when I got the mail today. I got a catalog from North Style. The current catalog has quite a few tunics in several different fabrics. I bought from them some time ago, and the quality was good. Prices seem competitive. northstyle.com
I think I get it. THANK YOU!!! Now I need to remember it...lol...which may be the hard part.
Ok....I am coming out with it. No, I STILL don't get it. Yes, I can explain all the nuances of the Insider Trading Sanctions Act of 1984 and the Insider Trading and Securities Fraud Enforcement Act of 1988...as well as of the SEC rules promulgated thereunder, but I am raising my hand saying nope, still don't get it LOL. Obviously it's me....as everyone else does. So I suspect I do things very differently than you (and the others)...well, ok...that's the story I am going with rather than admitting that I am really that obtuse. I was all excited when I first started reading and made it through the forward and backward slashes thinking, hey...that's how I do it...so I really do know what the illusive "sewing method" is....but it was all downhill after that. No worries though...please don't try to explain further on my account....I don't think I want to know all I am not doing correctly....or what "ditches" are. ;-)
That is really interesting, Marly! Thank you for explaining it so clearly. I will have to check for ditches on my older pieces (not that I will be ripping anything out :)
Neat idea! I will try it the next time I have a large solid to fill.
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