Fibers & stitching

Fibers & stitching

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Fibers & stitching

A kit is a collection of all the materials you need to cross stitch a design. Some kits are factory made and are sealed so that we cannot cheque the contents. Where we have a separate chart, we can ...

Needlepoint

Textiles; Fibers & stitching

Needlepoint is very similar to cross stitch, but it only uses half cross stitches. All the needlepoint designs that we sell are on painted canvases. The whole canvas is painted, and I think that ...

Waste canvas

Textiles; Fibers & stitching

This is made for cross stitching on pieces of cloth or clothing which are not made of fabrics suitable for cross stitching. Waste canvas has counts of anything from 6 upwards, and can be used like ...

Floss

Textiles; Fibers & stitching

Mostly this refers to a type of cotton thread. It comes in skeins of 6 strands loosely twisted together, and with a color-coded number. It is normally sewn in cross stitch using only two or three ...

Three-quarter stitch

Textiles; Fibers & stitching

The is literally a half-stitch plus a quarter stitch.

Quarter stitch

Textiles; Fibers & stitching

Are just that, it is a half of a half stitch. The little stitch ends in the centre of the normal full cross stitch. They can go in any diagonal direction depending on what the chart says. They are ...

Over 1, 2 or 3

Textiles; Fibers & stitching

There are several expressions like this that refer to how many holes you skip after bringing the needle up through a hole until the needle and thread goes back down again.