Friday, February 19, 2010

A Tip from Caron



The haunted house is so much fun to stitch. I can't seem to get anything else done! Here is a little tip that has helped me with compensating around interrupted areas of siding. For instance, when you have to move from one side of a window to the other just go ahead and stitch out of sequence and carry the pattern over the window to the other side with just one vertical row. Example: with the giant florentine variation I would stitch 4,4,8,4,4,8 until I get to the other side and then continue with the horizontal rows as before. Hope this helps someone. 


Caron Mayo 

4 comments:

  1. Wonderful Tip. This is a great platform to share "notes" as you stitch.

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  2. HI,

    Are we supposed to stitch over the pumpkin stems? also, on the third floor spider, we stitch over his little leg sticking out on the green, correct?

    I am so glad we have a big stitch on the walls!! I feel like I am making alot of progress. I slos think it is brilliant to break the house up into four different months, with separation in between. Otherwise, I would get tired of working on it, but this way, I can look forward to doing some of the characters!!

    have a great weekend!
    Kathy

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  3. Hi Kathy. That is a good question about the pumpkin on the second floor. I meant to ask Amy today but we got really busy. I am going to leave mine blank for now and will get the answer next week. I would rather add than take out later. And yes, stitch over the spider's legs.

    You are gonna ohh and ahh when you get the first character, Stirha Cal-Dron. All of the threads are wonderful.

    How is everybody doing with your houses?

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  4. I wondered the same thing Kathy. I checked every picture on the blog and in the kit, but it was the one area that was left out... figures. I left it blank and figured that Amy would have some wonderful stitch to fill it in.
    Sometimes it's hard to work on the canvas without knowing what is coming next. I can't figure out just where to start and stop the stitches... but I figure I can just rip out a few stitches... or add a few... if I'm wrong.

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