One of the widespread questions I hear from people who find themselves new to cross sew and different kinds of embroidery is what number of strands of embroidery floss must you use on a mission?
I discovered by utilizing two strands, and a few tasks will let you know if they need extra protection reminiscent of will be produced by utilizing extra strands, however I are likely to default to 2 strands.
Typically you will have kind of protection, or relying on the form of work you’re doing you may want extra of fewer strands. Working delicate again sew particulars, for instance, you may select to make use of fewer strands than you probably did on the principle colorwork of the mission. For those who’re stitching a full-coverage mission, you may need to use extra strands to make sure not one of the cloth exhibits by way of.
That is form of only a good distance of claiming “it relies upon,” however if you wish to get somewhat extra particular, Crewel Ghoul has some recommendation on their web site about what number of strands to make use of when.
There’s even a quiz on the web page you’ll be able to take describing what sort of embroidery you’re doing, how huge the mission is and the way you’d just like the stitches to look, which then advises what number of strands you need to use.
I instructed it I used to be doing a medium sized cross sew mission and wished fluffy trying stitches, and it suggested utilizing two or three strands, so I suppose my intuition is fairly good on that.
If you wish to see one instance of how totally different numbers of strands play in a mission, take a look at my put up on French knots, which has samples utilizing totally different numbers of strands and totally different numbers of twists within the knot. It actually does make a distinction and also you’ll in all probability discover you may have a choice that you simply’ll default to as nicely.
I’d like to know in case you “at all times” use the identical variety of strands and what number of you do.
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