In a message dated 3/12/99 9:29:34 AM Pacific Standard Time,
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<< I am planning to do it on 22 Aida. I
have several things I'm not sure about. (In the past I have never worked on
a 22, 18 Aida is the finest I've worked on to this point.) Some of the
background calls for using 3 strands to do half cross stitches. I know that
3 strands is obviously too much for a 22 Aida. I am concerned that using
only one strand will allow too much of the background fabric to show
through. I have thought about doing full xstitches instead or do you think
2 strands will cover adequately if I do just the half xstitch? The pattern
calls for using 2 strands for all of the other xstitches. One strand should
cover adequately shouldn't it? >>
I think that what I would do if I wasn't sure how well threads would cover
fabric, is take a scrap of the intended fabric (or work at the very edge where
it won't matter anyway) and just try some stitches with two strands and with
one. I get the feeling that you will likely be happy with 1, but may need 2. 3
will, as you have suspected, be too bulky, I find 3 to be too much for
anything over 14 count (and sometimes not even then).
Carolyn in (OK, it's raining again now) Southern California
http://www.dnai.com/~sisters2
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