Good luck! 😊 I'm just posting to follow the tips... 😄

Aww VCESS thought you were going to give me a wealth of tips🤨

Sorry, I seem to be a disappointment to lots of people today... 😃

You are going way beyond my pay grade. What series are you looking at? I have never worked with silks or even looked at patterns that use it. Pam

Pam looking at Spring by the Sea by Jeanette Douglas. There is also Summer, Fall and Winter. I would love to do them as a single piece. But the embellishment packs (one for each season) includes the floss/silk for it is pricey for a 6x6 section of it.☹️ Trying to justify it but am concerned about the silk. Of course the spouse asked me: “did you have a problem using it when you did the tapestries during the Middle Ages”. Goof.

Found this website with tips...it's for needlepoint, but silk threads are silk threads...thought they were pretty helpful...

https://www.needlepoint-for-fun.com/silk-needlepoint-thread.htm

I’ve never done cross stitch with silk, but I have done some needlepoint. I had to keep the yarn really short, or it wore pretty thin (but needlepoint canvas is rough)

I’ve haven’t any experience with stitching with silk threads.
You’e drawing all of us without any experience, but I dimly remember there was a discussion on working with silk thread on this chat-board.
I have one of the patterns ‘sections’ of ‘By the Sea’ by Jeanette Douglas In my Wish list and that’s probably going to be where it stays; I don’t want to pay the price of the ‘accessory’ kits that have the silk threads and beads, etc.

We’re all waiting like spiders for a stitcher to come on the chat-board with experience in stitching silk thread.....

I have never worked with silk (way beyond my pay grade, lol) but I did find some info on a site that I found interesting.
http://www.nordicneedle.net/guides/stitching-materials-guides/threads/stitching-with-silks/#.XRLFpy2ZNN0