Comments on: Knots and crosses https://www.revedreams.com/embroidery/knots-and-crosses/ teaching, design, and exploration Sun, 15 Jul 2018 12:21:36 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: Reve https://www.revedreams.com/embroidery/knots-and-crosses/#comment-1390 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 19:28:08 +0000 http://www.revedreams.com/?p=800#comment-1390 In reply to melydia.

Ooh, it’s much smoother with them all facing the same way. I wonder if you were taught that way because you were young and the person thought doing all the half-crosses first would lead to forgotten top stitches and/or miscounting of the pattern.

]]> By: melydia https://www.revedreams.com/embroidery/knots-and-crosses/#comment-1389 Mon, 15 Aug 2011 17:58:18 +0000 http://www.revedreams.com/?p=800#comment-1389 Cross-stitch definitely benefits from having all crosses made with the same diagonal stitch on top, and in fact you will be dinged for having stitches that don’t go the same direction if you enter a competition.

I didn’t know that! I was always taught to complete each X as I went along.

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