Greetings All,
I'm behind on digests, so I'm hoping I'm not saying what's already been
said, if so, please forgive.
Because cross stitch fabric is loosely woven, it's a very unstable fabric.
Cross stitches stabilize the fabric, but I wouldn't trust cross stitch
fabric to not distort in the
In a message dated 24/08/2004 04:51:15 GMT Standard Time, [EMAIL PROTECTED]
writes:
By the time you get to linen fabric for mounting, it's not going to be
cheap... :) If you go for the cross-stitch variety, it's likely to be
even more expensive; as Adele has said, that is the fabric which
In a message dated 24/08/2004 04:58:43 GMT Standard Time,
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
I'm looking on eBay, where you can find everything cheaply, but the vast
majority of linen fabric there is the cross-stitch sort. So it'll probably
be
easier to find cheap cross-stitch fabric than any other
Nature
You need to be careful on cross stitch fabric that you get even weave. If you buy
just linen, it is quite uneven in places. Especially where the slubs come in you
usually have a very fine thread next to it in places. I have found it very easy to
miss that fine thread and cross over
Phoenix Textiles at fabric.com is clearing out its linens and linen blends
right now, and the last time I looked, they still had black, ivory, and
bone, but a quick glance didn't turn up any white.
The black handkerchief linen is mis-filed under lightweight linen.
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Joy Beeson
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You're really getting my appetite up... g. Maybe I'll try harder to find a
fabric store, because I really want to go to one now!
It is really nice how people get interested in what you're doing. I wish I had
a miniature travel pillow or something to carry around and demonstrate, because
it's so
On Aug 23, 2004, at 20:07, Weronika Patena wrote:
I'm looking for cheap linen fabric to put lace edgings on. What's the
difference between cross-stitch fabric and normal fabric, and would it
make any
sense to put lace edgings on it?
By the time you get to linen fabric for mounting, it's not
By the time you get to linen fabric for mounting, it's not going to be
cheap... :)
??
If you go for the cross-stitch variety, it's likely to be
even more expensive; as Adele has said, that is the fabric which has
been woven *specially*, so that the number of both horizontal and the
On Aug 23, 2004, at 23:57, Weronika Patena wrote:
By the time you get to linen fabric for mounting, it's not going to be
cheap... :)
??
Cotton is *much* cheaper than linen, 9 times out of 10 (the 10th being
what Sharon has suggested - free discards from framing stores -
*thanks* Sharon)
It's
On Tue, Aug 24, 2004 at 01:43:06AM -0400, Tamara P. Duvall wrote:
Cotton is *much* cheaper than linen, 9 times out of 10 (the 10th being
what Sharon has suggested - free discards from framing stores -
*thanks* Sharon)
Ah.
Well, the only thing I know about matching lace to fabric is that
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