After completing MANY easy to difficult projects with beautiful results...a fellow counted x stitch enthusiast questioned my stitching method. I was taught 50 years ago by my grandmother to always take the needle up and then down in the fabric or vice versa...not to complete the half in one motion. Her wisdom was that the fabric was not likely to be pulled as much and less twisting of the thread. I've always used this method and never thought twice about it. My friend feels that it must take me twice as long to finish a project. Any thoughts?
Posted by: ocroxie37 on 03/26/15
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I never thought of that BUT I do it the way you said, I go UP from under the fabric and then go down. I do not cross stitch half of my "X" with one motion. May take longer but I enjoy doing it this way.....
Posted by: Bermuda on 03/26/15
I agree with Bermuda. I also go up under the fabric and back down. I do not believe that it takes any longer to stitch in this manner. I always use a frame of some sort. I think it helps me keep my stitches more even. It is also the way I was taught many moons ago!
Posted by: jerseycrafter on 03/26/15
And when I use a hoop, I always make sure the hoop'a "screw tightener" is to my right as I'm tightening down the fabric. (I'm a "leftie" stitcher!)
Posted by: Bermuda on 03/26/15
I do my stitching the way the other 2 said they do theirs. it doesn't take anymore time. When I first started cross stitching over 25 years ago the instructions in my first patterns said not to do the cross stitches in one stroke because it would stretch the fabric. I use a plastic metal spring tension hoop and I put the squeeze part at the top since I am left handed. That way it is out of my way while I stitch.
Posted by: syagel on 03/26/15
Wonder what the ratio is of right-handed stitchers to left-handed stitchers.
I'm old enough to remember my mother desperately seeking scissors for me for kindergarten because the teacher told my mom, "She can't cut her construction paper in class." I was mortified!!
Posted by: Bermuda on 03/26/15
It's a poor craftsman that blames the tool....but honestly, those scissors were THE WORST...right or left-handed!!!!!! They are the probably the reason I am sort of ambidextrous! :)
Posted by: VCESS on 03/26/15
I'm a lefty too and have no problems stitching. But I do cut with my right hand, so I never had problems having to find a lefty scissors. My mom had to get one for my brother. I guess I inherited some of my father's right-handed genes. I knit like a right hander I think, but do the looping of the yarn over the needle with my left.
Posted by: arottenbucher on 03/26/15
I'm a left handed stitcher too..was also humiliated in school because I couldn't cut construction paper.. Life was hard for "lefties" in the 50's and 60's...
Posted by: bthompson2418 on 03/26/15
Stitchers, I find this fascinating. I am right handed! I have a friend who is left handed and wants me to teach her to knit. I am wondering how that will work! We worked together for 25 years. I was in Customer Service and she was in Order Entry. I used to appear at her desk several times a day. The fact that we are still friends speaks volumes!! You know what they say..."You can always trust a lefty!"
Posted by: jerseycrafter on 03/26/15
It's called "Stab" & it's the correct way for cross stitch. Your "Sewing Stitch" friend will have more trouble getting her tension even & stitches looking perfect.