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| Carol Sue |
Posted - Jun 19 2007 : 3:55:50 PM
Okay I finished my tea towel. It turned ut cute but how in the world do you make the stiches on the back look as good as the stiches on the front. It isn't horrible but it ain't great either.
Does this just take practice?
Carol Sue
Life is short, enjoy every moment. |
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| Carol Sue |
Posted - Jun 20 2007 : 11:01:44 AM
Sunshine,
Thank you for reminding me that it is the heart of the matter, the giving of oneself in whatever they do.
I do thank you for the help and the advice. My first tea towel doesn't have much cross over. I did another one that has quite a bit but was fun to do anyway. I have really enjoyed doing stichery. I have quilted for the last 5 years. I haven't ever attemped to hand quilt one yet but I really want to. Just a matter of time.
I love hanging out with your girls!!!!!!
Later, Carol Sue
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| Aunt George |
Posted - Jun 20 2007 : 06:16:55 AM
LOL....Sunshine that is a great story...about the lesson in church. You really brought a smile to my face! Wish I could hold a needle long enough to do stitching like all of you farmgirls! Just no can do anymore. I might give it a go though just to see how I'd do. I made a couple of cross stitch samplers when I was younger, but the backs looked horrible!! LOL....
G
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| smoothiejuice |
Posted - Jun 20 2007 : 05:59:14 AM
oh good, sunshine, do not look at the back of my signature square, just put in in a quilt right away! I think I took your square with me for about a week and showed several stitching women, and we all just stared speechless and in awe. Great work Sunshine!! |
| sunshine |
Posted - Jun 19 2007 : 5:52:58 PM
Either way is fine it is what is on the front that is most important. I learned how to embroider when I was a little kid younger than 8 years old a as I remember entering my first cross stitch contest at 7. I truley don't even think about the back any more unless someone a has asked me how I do that. It is just a second nature and actually doesn't slow me down I usually embroider faster than those around me. my hands just know what to do after so many years holding a needle not much thought is really given to it any more. Sort of like riding a bike once you get the hang of it it just stays that way. Good luck holler if you have any questions always happy to help. Truly don't worry about the back what is most important is how you feel making it and how the person feels getting it if it is a gift the rest will work itself out. People like the front more anyway and would rather look at that. The only people who look at the back are other stitcher's just to see how things are made.
have a lovely day and may God bless you and keep you safe
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| pinkroses |
Posted - Jun 19 2007 : 5:18:10 PM
Sunshine. I do try to do that.
I have learned that long ago.
But, it has a homey feeling too when it looks not so neat on the back'
Farm ladies didn't have much time to think about how the back looked. Ha.
I made some for my Aunt and cousin. My cousin framed hers.
I did some machine emboriery with hearts on the edge and added some hand crocheted lace shell too on them.
pinkroses |
| sunshine |
Posted - Jun 19 2007 : 4:50:43 PM
funny you say that a lady at church one time asked me to bring some embroidery and I had no idea why. I wrecked her object lesson she wanted to show that even the back of a beautiful piece had problems like people in the world may look beautiful but you never know what is in their past that may have made a mess of their life that they where able to over come and make a beautiful life any way thus the front. So right before her lesson I gave her my pieces she said "I should have know not to ask you as the back looks nice too". We got a good laugh out of it in class anyway and the point was still made. She said next time she would ask a 6 year old for their embroidery then I told her one of them was from my six year old daughter that frustrated her all the more as she could tell the difference ( that one was a russian needle punch easy to keep the back neat on those)
One of the simplest things to remember is never travel over and open space mare than 1/4 to 1/2 inch this leaves an ugly thread bar that can show through light fabric. If you have to travel across the back of your work farther than that figure out a different way of getting there either finish your thread by winding them around the back side threads use as few knots as possible this does help. Or travel across the back as if you are finishing a thread mean wrap it around the back stitches and get to the place you want and start stitching again. If this doesn't make since let me know. Also don't worry about it this is not a contest if you do your best each time your best will improve over time. And if it doesn't so be it you look at the front way more than the back it is the front that you would like to look the nicest. Do try to keep your thread bars on the back small as this can cause other problems on a towel that is used they can snag on things and mess up the front of your work. It is not only aesthetics it is function. If the item is to be in a quilt I don't worry near as much as the back will only be seen my the quilt maker while making the quilt then probably not again.
P.S. thank you for such a nice compliment Jessica
have a lovely day and may God bless you and keep you safe
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| smoothiejuice |
Posted - Jun 19 2007 : 4:05:49 PM
Takes some practice, the back will never look like the front. ask sunshine, the back of her stuff looks better than everyone elses that I have seen. You may want to embroider on one piece of fabric and then sew it to a ttea towel, so you do not see the back...jess |
