As you may remember, I started stitching from the center of the chart. It's how I've always started my kits and so I went with what I know. As I near completion of the first page, I am left with a lot of confetti. Those who are not in the know, may ask, "what the heck is confetti?"
Confetti: Definition: Stitchers often refer to scattered single stitches as confetti stitches. The stitches are spread across the fabric as if they had been sprinkled like confetti.
Exhibit A:
Can you see the scattered little white dots of fabric? That's confetti.
I like my definition better - a huge pain in the ass.
Having to do single cross stitches means having to re-thread my needle a lot. It's time consuming and irritation. Not to mention BORING!!!
So, once this page is complete and I move on to the next, I am going to try stitching in blocks of 10x10 squares. Seasoned stitchers will say that this may lead to more re-threading more often, but another trick I learned is parking the thread, like this.
Oy, that looks like a god-awful mess, doesn't it? Well, I'm going to give it a shot and see how it goes.
Wish me luck!
Love your definition of confetti. One way that I have found works better for me, is threading several needles ahead of time. I tried parking once but it didn't work too good for me.
ReplyDeleteOh, that wasn't my definition, I took it from a cross stitching website. I should have made that clear, oops. My bad.
DeleteI will post an update on my progress with the parking in a few days.
Hi Mimi you're certainly doing much better than I am at the moment! I really don't get on with "parking" my needle - I end up with a huge tangle of threads that are similar colours and I can't decipher which one is which. Maybe if I stitched more often I wouldn't have this problem, but there we go. Well done on your work so far - these projects look like they're going to be fabulous!
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