beautiful way to spend the summer!

Marlene -- your fabric is large enough

It took me quite a while to figure out the gridding 6 over 4 under concept Then one day the light bulb finally came on. Did you watch the tutorial at rseasycount.com? The first time I watched I was quite confused. It took several attempts to get it right.

Make sure to take an easy project along with you just in case you get stressed.

Hey there lpnbarnes :)

Your order should be going out Wednesday afternoon. Orders that are placed over the weekend usually go out on a Wednesday because of certain items we have to order from our manufacturer, which gets done on Monday morning. I hope that made sense? Lol! Either way, your order will be shipping out tomorrow :)

~Kristi @ ECS

Four under and six over equals ten, what is needed for your square.

The four under is the length you go, four count, and it is always on the under side of the material.

The six over is 6 count on top of your material.

After you do the horizontal lines, you will do the same six count vertically, except you will cross your line in the middle of the six horizontals. So you will have a three, three split. This three count splits make up the corners of each of your ten count block. Your squares don't become noticeable until you have all the gridding done.

You can start griding in the center or start along an edge if you know you have the material, with three inches extra all around. You can do vertical lines first if you wish. I just used horizontal first in my explanation, which I'm sure makes absolutely no sense. The first time I did it, I scratched my head, but now it is easy.

The video is good to watch and the grideline also comes with written instructions and pictures.

Kristi: Thank you for checking! Got the ship notification this am!

Nancye: lol! While digging in my stash box, I found S E V E R A L more unfinished projects!! Like maybe 10-15? That's one of my goals....to complete each and every single one!! So, I'll have plenty to work on on our beach retreat!!

arottenbucher: thank you for the extended explaination! It will probably make more sense once I act start DOING it. Kinda leaning towards measuring 3" in then start gridding. But, just don't know yet!

MARLENE -- I don't think that you should start the gridding at the outside. Go to the center of your fabric. Make a stitch three stitches up and three stitches down. that makes six stitches> RIGHT!!! Yes, I am right. Now, cross that six in line with six stitches across - three on each side of the line. You will now have your starting point. Under four and over six in each direction until you come to the end of your stitching area. I just figured this explanation out today. Think it should be easy, but boring, once you get started.

Make an effort to get one WIP finished on your retreat. The cross stitch police will be looking over your shoulder.

You guys are making something really easy, too hard.

If you can't see it on you fabric, then look at your pattern....at the grid. You putting the corners of the 10x10 on the fabric. Take a pencil...place the tip at the intersection of vertical and horizontal line....that's a corner of your 10x10. 3 spaces right, 3 spaces left from that intersection is your first 6up....Come up at 3 spaces right, down at 3 spaces left, skip 4, up & count 6, down, skip 4, up6, down, skip 4....your vertical spacing will give you a "cross" at each horizontal 6.

Geez, now I'm doing it! Watching the instruction at the website.....though I have not....should explain it ....seeing and doing is a lot easier than trying to explain it WITHOUT you actually doing it.

Counting 10 spaces will not get you an accurate grid.

VCESS -- I get you but only because I already figured it out. It really is difficult to understand and it is tedious to do. Once it is done, properly, I am glad that I did it.

Marlene, the beach vacation sounds nice, though you probably won't do much sunbarhing if the cottage is on the Washington or Oregon coasts. Take along some simple, small project. The rose and the fractal are designed to wreck your last nerve. Before you start screeming, you can take up your little project! Have fun!

We just had 2 weeks in Palm Springs, & have a short trip to Montery for our 40th in July. No long getaways.