{"id":9903,"date":"2020-06-01T16:11:07","date_gmt":"2020-06-01T06:11:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=9903"},"modified":"2020-06-01T16:11:07","modified_gmt":"2020-06-01T06:11:07","slug":"white-threads-flosstube-27-investigating-the-way-cross-stitches-cross","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2020\/06\/01\/white-threads-flosstube-27-investigating-the-way-cross-stitches-cross\/","title":{"rendered":"White Threads FlossTube #27 &#8211; investigating the way cross stitches cross"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many rules around cross stitch that most of us don\u2019t know when we first start out, and then we have them unceremoniously dumped on us when we proudly show someone our first cross stitch, where the stitches cross every which way. \u201cOh, no, all the crosses should cross in the same direction.\u201d \u201cThe proper way is to stitch top left to bottom right, then top right to bottom left.\u201d \u201cThe proper way is to stitch top right to bottom left, then top left to bottom right.\u201d WHY?!<\/p>\n<p>In this video, I test out plain old simple cross stitches, to bust some myths and break some rules!<\/p>\n<p>What you\u2019re aiming for is not to be CORRECT, because who decided what that was anyway? What you\u2019re aiming for is achieving the effect you want. Ignore the rules. Make it look like you want it to look like!<\/p>\n<p><iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"White Threads FlossTube #27 \u2013 Investigating the way cross stitches cross\" width=\"640\" height=\"360\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/osvQq7TutDs?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><br \/>\nIf you&#8217;re reading this in an email, you can find the video at <a href=\"https:\/\/youtu.be\/osvQq7TutDs\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">https:\/\/youtu.be\/osvQq7TutDs<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Episode notes:<br \/>\n0:00 Why are there so many rules around cross stitch? Do we have to pay attention to them?<br \/>\n4:13 How to strip your threads and why you would want to<br \/>\n6:19 Top right to bottom left, then top left to bottom right, horizontal rows, English method<br \/>\n12:52 Top left to bottom right, then top right to bottom left, horizontal rows, English method<br \/>\n17:25 Bottom left to top right, then bottom right to top left, horizontal rows, English method<br \/>\n20:08 Bottom right to top left, then bottom left to top right, horizontal rows, English method<br \/>\n22:39 Top left to bottom right, then bottom left to top right, horizontal rows, English method<br \/>\n26:02 Bottom left to top right, then top left to bottom right, horizontal rows, English method<br \/>\n26:33 Top right to bottom left, then bottom right to top left, horizontal rows, English method<br \/>\n30:24 Discussion of those methods<br \/>\n31:07 Top left to bottom right, then top right to bottom left, horizontal rows, Danish method, effect of variegated thread<br \/>\n33:58 Bottom left to top right, then bottom right to top left, horizontal rows, Danish method<br \/>\n36:29 Bottom right to top left, then bottom left to top right, horizontal rows, Danish method<br \/>\n39:34 Railroading for untwisted, flat stitches<br \/>\n44:48 Using a laying tool for untwisted, flat stitches<br \/>\n46:46 The effect of light hitting the stitches from above<br \/>\n46:55 Closing remarks<\/p>\n<p>Products used in the video<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/colourstreams.com.au\/collections\/cotton-threads-1\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Colourstreams stranded cotton thread<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There are so many rules around cross stitch that most of us don\u2019t know when we first start out, and then we have them unceremoniously dumped on us when we proudly show someone our first cross stitch, where the stitches cross every which way. \u201cOh, no, all the crosses should cross in the same direction.\u201d [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16,67,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-musings","category-embroidery-stitches","category-flosstube","category-hints-and-tips","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=9903"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9906,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9903\/revisions\/9906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}