Hi guys I'm just popping in with a quick question and apology. The apology comes for my last post. I really do like my job and the night ended up being super easy. Maybe it was because they actually scheduled enough people to handle guests or because guests were all in a festive mood but I only had one, well-justified, complaint. It even ended up raining for part of it. But nobody tried to get a refund because the rides were down for an hour (one of my biggest pet peeves and something that happens a lot). I didn't get to see any fireworks but that's okay I could hear them :D. So sorry again if my post made me seem bitter.
Now on to the question: what do you guys call it when your stitching looks like this?
Is it considered confetti? I call it checkerboard stitching and this part of the piece has a lot lol. I'm stitching these pages a bit differently. I'm hoping it speeds up my stitching with not having to change colors as often. I'm still working in half pages but I'm doing a full page at a time if that makes sense. This will keep my page breaks the same. Then I'm going immediately to the bottom page instead of going by row. I'm thinking of finishing this entire half piece before continuing to the other half. I think it will make me go faster. After I'm done I'm going to try sewing behind the piece to make the lines go away. I hope it works. From my next piece on I'm going to cross country so I don't worry about lines. But if I started now on here it would make the lines more obvious if they're only in half the piece.
If you have any other ideas for getting rid of them let me know!
Talk to you next time!
P.S. I'm taking my midterm for my American history class tomorrow. I'm hoping to finish the class in the next 3 days.
I try not to stitch in a straight line but sometimes it is hard not to( not very helpful lol)
ReplyDeleteWe all have days when we need to vent; don't sweat it! I call that confetti stitching, and that's how I usually do it. I'll stitch one color for a couple blocks, then go back and fill in another and so on. Good luck with your exam, Heather!
ReplyDeleteCheckerboard stitching is a good explanation for it. I've done a BAP and though I worked on it one page at a time I never got the lines that so many talk about and I've seen on some pieces. I'm not sure if its because I focused on stitching 10x10 blocks I would do everything in one colour in that section and if I still had floss left on the needle instead of parking I kept going into the next 10x10 (I like to work left to right) until I ran out of that colour. Then I would go back to my original 10x10 and do the next colour. I didn't have a single line on The Accolade
ReplyDeleteI think for the pattern they call it "dithering", looks great and good luck on your exam!
ReplyDeleteI've seen it referred to as "dithering" (see Keele World blog) and it refers to the way it's charted. I can't help with the lines as I cross country.
ReplyDeleteFirst, and more importantly, good luck on your midterm!
ReplyDeleteYes, the joys of dithering! I absolutely HATE it! I stitch cross-country for the same reason, the page break lines, but I have found I don't have that issue horizontally, only vertically, so I typically stitch one row at a time. And cross country makes the world of difference on dithering as well although it still doesn't make it any faster. Depending on the pattern, in some cases the final project looks better with the dithering than without (even though it's a monster to stitch), but for some, it looks horrible. I'm just grateful I have a huge HAED stash before they switched their charting method, especially where the JBG's are concerned...but don't get me started on that rant again!
So that's what they call it, lol. Looks great. I stitch by color too but if it's too complicated I do by blocks. Goodluck with the studies:)
ReplyDeleteWe all understand venting. I think it helps a lot to just write down our frustrations sometimes. Glad it didn't go as bad as you worried it would. I call it confetti stitching. Good luck getting your lines to go away. I sew behind the lines and I don't really see them on mine.
ReplyDeleteI didn't know it was called dithering either. I guess that is what I do on my FF patterns! TIL :D
ReplyDeleteHope your exam went well and you're done with the class!
I consider it to be confetti. I'm sure it will look amazing finished.
ReplyDeleteGood luck with your class!