Fibers & stitching

Fibers & stitching

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Needlework frame

Textiles; Fibers & stitching

A needlework frame consists of roller bars to which you attach your fabric. Once attached, the fabric can be rolled in opposite directions to tighten.

Colour key

Textiles; Fibers & stitching

The list of symbols and corresponding colours that are found on the chart. Most colour keys will show the symbol, then the colour number found on the skein of floss, then the name of that color.

Basting

Textiles; Fibers & stitching

The stitches are long, loose stitches that can be easily removed. For example, you can find the centre of a cross-stitch chart by basting intersecting lines across the fabric. Or you may need to ...

Tweeding

Textiles; Fibers & stitching

Using two or more different floss colours in the same needle, usually one strand of each color. (example: DMC 501 & 502).

Shadows

Textiles; Fibers & stitching

Normally in the same direction as the top half of the cross stitching, or it can be the underneath of a backstitch when it goes in the opposite direct to the backstitch.

Back ground shading

Textiles; Fibers & stitching

The stitches must all be the the single top stitch of the cross. This way they will match the top stitches of the cross stitches you have stitched in the rest of the design.