Marking fabric every ten stitches before you start
What is the best way to mark your fabric before you start a project. It took me all day yesterday using a needle and thred.
Posted by: Jill Mudry on 04/23/18
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I am posting because I want to know the answer to this question too.
by: carissalindsey30 on 04/24/18
There isn't really a best way to grid, as it depends on the individual user. I have used a disappearing pen/marker. Some people use fishing line (or similar thick colored filament) to baste the grid. Others use a pre-gridded aida cloth.

If it took you all day, how large was the cloth? Did you baste sections? It took me a while to do mine with the disappearing ink, but not all day.
by: MarzHere on 04/24/18
Jill - if I am working on a large project I take two strands of thread (not something from the project I am working on but something that I can easily see like late at night) and mark every 10 stitches across the top, down both sides and across the bottom. That is all the gridding I do. It gives you a reference to work from. As I work on the larger project I will also leave one or two (focus stitches) and circle them on my copy of my pattern and use them for reference. There are so many different ways stitchers mark their work for reference points and I am pretty sure they will chime in on this posting. There was a similar question like yours just a little while ago so you could use the search box across the top of this page and see what they have said for gridding.
cheryl
by: clpatt123 on 04/24/18