Flosstube #12 - Boss Daughter explains how to HAED
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- Опубликовано: 8 сен 2024
- Hey everyone, it's Catherine a.k.a. Boss Daughter. Here's a quick video on how I handle my Heaven and Earth Designs project the most painless way that works for me. I forgot to mention that I'm working on 25 count evenweave so there you go. Let me know if you have questions!
Catherine, I know that this video was done 4 years ago, but I just started back cross-stitching after a 27 year break so this technique was very new and different and confusing until I watched your video. Thank you so much for this. You are an excellent teacher and stitcher!
I know what you mean! I went from cross stitch to quilting in late 80's, to wool appliqué in 2005, to punch needle in 20010... then I happened upon a video called 'floss tube' and watched it.... and wondered what on earth has happened to cross stitch?!! Dived right in, hauled out all of my unfinished projects - you know - the ones where you crease the centre and go from there! I think I am catching up, knowledge wise, but am now wishing I had finished everything else 30 yrs ago and could start fresh! Saw a good video last night that talked about a typewriter method which I was interested in - you find the top and do the entire first row - and work down from there... a bit more to it, but it made sense. Good luck!
This was very helpful. I always snubbed my nose at full coverage but the way you explained it made so much sense AND your back looks tidy. I've seen some videos where the back is chunky in some sections and thinner in other sections where there aren't as many colors. Thank you very much for taking the time to do this video!
I will pass your kind words along to Catherine :)
I am starting my first HAED this weekend. Thank you soooo much for your video. It has really helped me.
Hi Beth! I will pass your message along to Catherine :) I'm glad the video was helpful!
I'm returning to cross stitch after a 10 year hiatus. I've been trying to understand the parking method; so this was very helpful. stunning work; thanks for sharing.
So you can teach an old dog a new trick. I started a full coverage about 2 years ago and was plugging along at it. I decided to try your method and ....VOILA!!! I finished a full page in just 11 days (and I work full time). Not only am I stitching faster but my back is neater. I only changed one thing. On the right side of each column I didn't end in a straight line. When the chart permitted I would stitch one or two more stitches to the right( into the next column). This staggered the right side finish line eliminating any visible breaks in the columns. Thank you so much Catherine.
First time a parking explanation clicked for me. Thanks!
I'm so glad :)
Catherine, your three rules are fantastic! I started my first ever HAED this weekend and this video was so helpful. Thank you!!
Wonderful! Absolutely loved your explanations and it all made perfect sense. I have a full coverage piece I want to do for my son and I've been unable to wrap my thinking around how to do it, you've given me the courage to finally start it. Thank you so much! Also, you definitely need to start your own Flosstube, maybe a
stitch-with-me type. I could sit and listen to you all day! Thanks again and God Bless.
Catherine, this is a great video! Your methodical “follow the path “ technique makes a world of sense and will help eliminate getting lost. I havent done a HARD in years but your ideas make me start to think about it! You are such an excellent stitcher!
This is the BEST explanation I have ever seen. I didn't understand parking, but now I do!! Great video Boss Daughter! Thank you for taking the time!!! HAPPY STITCHING TODAY AND EVERYDAY!!
Hello, I'm a beginner-to-be who is yet to touch any project, and just getting familiar with the basics, working out my little plan for the first "masterpiece" :) I like your clever way to snake your stitches and to park your threads. It seems simple but it's great to know from the start and not finding things out the hard way. Videos like yours are a big help, thanks so much for sharing! Happy stitching!
So happy to hear you will be joining the cross stitch community!! I hope you enjoy it as much as I do :) I will pass along your kind words to Catherine.
Finally, someone who makes their cross the same way I do. 👏🏻🤜🏻🤛🏻
Hey, I wanted to let you know that this video changed my life. I watched several other parking method videos and just wasn’t feeling it. But after watching this video- I tried it and I LOVE the results! Thank you to your Boss Daughter for this video!!
I’m doing her snake method and I’m so happy with my project. Please tell her CONGRATS on this video for me!
Hi Sarah!! I'm so glad it was helpful!!! I will tell her :)
Great Video Boss Daughter!!!! Your explaining and demonstration was superb! Good thing you made the video before you finished the piece! I was laughing as I watched because I realized Catherine and I don't do HAED's exactly the same, and I never realized! I think we both started out with the same basic idea, but over the last ten years we each tweaked our method to what felt better to each of us. I stitch basically the same except for one key difference: I stitch all the stitches that are the same color within one 10 x 10 square at once, and then I park it into the next square where it will be used. So I start with the first color in that square, just like Catherine, but then I do all those squares in that 10 x 10 block, and then move on to the next color. And, no boss daughter, I don't even care that they are travelling all across the back over already partly stitched sections. If I am on the last few colors and the block is mostly stitched already, I will run under stitches on the back if I have to travel across a large stitched area. I mean let's face it, a 10 x 10 square on 25 count fabric is like a half inch! I am not worried about carrying a thread across the back of a HAED piece over a stitched section for a half inch, lol. But as Catherine said, that would really bug her. So yes, we truly do each stitch the way it makes us happy, grin. Thank You Catherine!!!
That's so funny! I guess we never really talked about the gritty details after all this time. And yeah sometimes I forget just how small a 10x10 block is!
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I found myself doing the colors as I came to them and as individual stitches and parking when I had to go around one. It's only my first little square so who knows what I'll be doing by the time I hit the end??? How do you start your single strand? I tried just doing a little straight stitch at the side of the first stitch a couple of times and then moving on and will try to thread through the back of stitching to end but I'd sure like to see how you do yours as well as Catherine if they are different.
Catherine, I am finding that many cross stitchers are or have worked in accounting. I am retired but was a bookkeeper in my working days. I also have a degree in computer science. Hence the desire for order and logic. It's great to see it all come together. I have not stitched a haed yet. But I stitch my projects by columns. Otherwise I seem to get off track easily. Just one thread off is a real headache. Thanks so much for showing your method. I enjoy watching you and your mom. My daughter and I are working on a SAL together right now.
This is the first parking video that makes sense to me! You did a great job explaining.😉
This was such a helpful, insightful video. I love your methodical approach to tackling such a large project. I am a beginner and was having difficulty understanding parking and the importance of gridding.
Hi Anne! I am so glad it was helpful. I will pass along your message to Catherine :)
Thanks for this video. Your explanations and rules make this look so doable.
This was great. Thanks so much for sharing this. You are very talented! Clear and concise.
I will let Catherine know :)
I finally attempted my first HAED a couple months ago. I dove in and started doing it as I’ve always cross stitched and hated it before long! What a headache to keep finding my place. Yes, I was “hating my life”! Now that I’ve watched Catherine’s video twice, I am a very eager convert. :-) Catherine is such an excellent teacher with a very soothing and encouraging voice! Thank you!! ❤️
Yay! I'm so glad the tutorial helped, I will let Catherine know :) And so glad you are excited to work on your HAED again, it is definitely a "different" kind of stitching than on normal projects. But so fun when it is working well, and a fun change from normal stitching.
Great tutorial!!! Makes so much more sense I actually understood what you were doing. Thanks so much for sharing “Boss Daughter”!!😀
This is super helpful! I've never done a HAED, but there is a James Christensen one I REALLY want to do someday. This has made it less scary to stitch a HAED someday.
Your rules make sense. Now I will be able to appreciate the parking method and your "path" doesn't make the back messy. Thanks for the tips! I do cross my x's differently (up bottom left, down top right & up bottom right, down top left) which is opposite yours. But hey, each to her own right? Love your being in your mom's channel 🌹
Catherine, thanks so so much for the beautiful voice, clear instructions, expert filming, simple rules. Have subscribed.
I will pass your kind words along to Catherine :)
You did a great job explaining the proper way to stitch such a large project. Good information in a very clear manner. Great job.
Loved your video. You have explained so many things that I was unsure of & no body else that I have watched, has covered. They all say parking is best, but if u don’t see anyone do it & explain as u go, then all u end up with r threads galore & no clear path of where to go & a huge amount of stress!! Your work is lovely & only lately have found your mums channel. She does amazing work with so many specialty stitches that I didn’t know even existed! Thank u both so much. Cheers from W.A. 😊😊💕💕
would love to see how you rolled up your excess fabric on Q Snap. i’m doing haed too but i have so much excess and grime guards and cable ties don’t even seem to grab excess well. Yours look so much better!
Hi Rhonda! Catherine's q-snaps are well loved, and her clips have stretched out a little. She just folds the fabric up under the q-snap clip and/or holds it out of the way with her hand :)
You have just proven you are the Boss. Oh my gosh this was fascinating.
Excellent video! Really impressed with Catherine's explanations and method. I adore stitching one over one, but I've never done a full coverage like this. Now I am very, very tempted. Thank you!
Miss Katharine, thank you so much for really explaining how to park. Other vids really don’t explain the reasons to park and how to other than its how its done. Example is that you park your thread at the point where you will use it next. Excellently done explanation all the way around! Thank you. I was amazed though at HOW you stitch from right to left. The final result in much more pleasing to the eye. I am doing a HAED by Jane Wooster Scott “Catching the Breeze”. Thank you again!
Thank you Thank you! This is a great video for those of us who are very timid when it comes to doing a HAED! You explained everything very well and now I just might give it a try. I will bookmark this video though for future reference.
You make it look so much easier. Great tips. Thanks for sharing.
Loved this video. I have never done a HAED and I don’t grid, but I am going to get the pre-gridded fabric when I do! And yes, I tried to frog my stitches once and couldn’t get them out, and “lost my mind” as you say, and wound up getting rid of the whole kit and getting another. My problem was I am fairly new to cross stitch and didn’t know what I was doing. If only you had made this video a year and a half ago and I had watched it! 😅😊
Great video Catherine, I have tried parking on many occasions with no luck. I'm always getting in a muddle and really don't like rethreading. Thanks for your time and hope you'll be on again real soon or on your own video. Take care, happy stitching x
What an excellent video!!!!!! I have wanted to do a full coverage design, but had no idea how to even start. Your instructions were perfectly clear and made total sense. Now I feel I can at least attempt one. Thank you so much, I am so glad I stumbled onto your video!!!!! Can't wait to begin one!!!!
What a wonderful, informative video. Thank you!
I love how there is hardly any messy threads on the back unlike some previous videos I've watched. I plan to start a project and want to try parking this one seems the one I will try thanks for the videos
Great tutorial. I’m enjoying watching the progress on your wonderful piece!
This is the best HAED demo video I’ve seen so far! (I haven’t seen many but this one is my new favorite). Thank you!
Wow your cross stitching is amazing. I am 57 years old and I have recently started my very 1st cross-stitch. And for my 1st cross-stitch I Chose a Gray tiger stripe tabby cat with a Floral background. I should have watched some of these videos before I began. I am almost done with the cat part of it and about to begin the background. With using so many different colors and I thought I had to complete my whole string of thread before moving on to the next color, but I knew there had to be an easier way than having to count all over the page. I learned an amazing lesson watching this video. Believe me when I say I miscounted in so many places I don't understand how this cat actually looks like it's a cat. But I'm getting through it and it's not looking half bad for my very 1st cross stitching project, But now I know I can seek out more complicated and beautiful cross stitches and be able to accomplish it with more ease. So thank you for Sharing your techniques.
Wow, your gray tiger tabby sounds amazing!!!!! There are so many different ways to stitch a large full-coverage piece. Find the one that works the best for you :) I'm glad Catherine's video was helpful :)
I ‘snake’ the same way too. Thanks for the tips!
Hello Cerrone! I will pass your kind words along to Catherine :)
What a fantastic and informative video. Thank you so much for explaining your process. 😊
Fantastic video! Thanks for sharing your method!
This is so informative. Thank you!
I started my first HAED last night. I have been studying videos (while I was gather my supplies and waiting on my fabric to arrive) and I think I am doing a miss-mash of several people's methods. Lol I have an efficiency problem. If I see there is another stitch same color say on the next row or two below where I'm stitching I will go ahead and do it as I figure it will cost me less time to go ahead do it now while it's threaded, but I need to stop that as I found I got lost a time or two already . I stitch on the diagonal , and I love the grids. What I don't love is that I bought pre-gridded fabric that isn't gridded in a way that is easy to see. I decided that I will just go back and mark it myself. Grrr, what a waste of $! Thank you for a great video! By the way I learned from Needle Bugg about the diagonal parking. I had seen it in other places but I understood the way she described it. Can't wait to see your progress on the next video.
I love your up close tutorial, I have a couple heaven and earth design but fabric size is overwhelming
You make it look so simple....thanks for making it a little xlearer!
The pattern for those wondering is Faery Tales by James C.
Christensen.
Nice to see what it looks like up close. I have to finish the ones I have before I get any more.
Awesome, the more I watch this technique it is getting easier to understand. Still using 14 count aida’s got 8 cross stitch stockings to complete for my 8 grand-babies, after I will try the linen cloth. Cross stitch back in the eighties when my kids were small
Wow, 8 stockings!!!! Cheering you on!
Thank you for this tutorial. I'm practicing your method on a full coverage piece I'm currently working on and love your method. I'm going to be starting my HAED soon. I have been parking but stitching all one symbol within the 10 square grid. I find it much easier to keep track of where I am stitching one row at a time within the grid. Thanks again.
Best explanation EVER! But I'm still terrified of HAED!😂😂
LOL, you will never know unless you try :) I will pass along your kind words to Catherine :)
thanks so much for this video i just bought my first HAED pattern (although it is a 'mini' one) and your tips are going to be very helpful. i already gridded my fabric but the parking method that your doing looks super useful and i'm definitely going to give it a try
Thank you I love it! I’ve looked at few videos and by far this has gave me what I need, to stay efficient. ❤️
Me too!!!
These are art pieces! Absolutely amazing, im going to start with a lady bug lol
Yes, I agree, I think they are works of art as well :) A ladybug sounds beautiful!!
U should have ur own channel i loved watching n listening to u!!
Awesome explanation. Thanks!
Great video. I would avoid using lead pencil to grid though. To many flosstubers have had issue with lead not washing out and showing through. I like your picture. 😸
Great explanation! Thanks for sharing your technique with us.
Finally someone that thread the needle the same way as me 😊 I like the snake method, I usually have not done this because I do multiple stitches in a row with a half stitch and then back crossing the legs. But have been thinking about doing one stitch at a time, and this method is perfect for me, with a few tweeks 😊❤️ Thank you for the explanation ❤️
I'm glad the video helped! I will let Catherine know :)
Great video. Very helpful.
I will tell Catherine you enjoyed it :)
Awesome tutorial! I am all about Rule #1. I joke that it's like Battleship (or a giant Excel spreadsheet if the cells were square). Every stitch has a home, I just have to put it there. I use searchable PDF's so I tend to do more cross country but I've had paper charts that intimidated me. Your method would be great for me in heavy confetti. You are a wiz at the needle threading!
Yes I love that way of looking at it! I love that I don't have to make any creative decisions really, I just have to follow the path all the way to the end, and if I put enough time in it will be done. And thank you, I've practiced a lot!
Oh wow that's some impressive stuff! Also it seems so obvious now that you've said it, but I never would have thought to park the thread where it was next needed haha. Although tbf, I've never done anything that complicated where that would be needed haha
snaking down the column is actually my method. I, however, feather the stitches to next block and I always start from the top down. I don't snake my way up the next column. I will either park or end my last thread at the bottom and then go back to the top again.
Can you do a tutorial on how to work HAED page by page and how you grid it? Very useful tip and I would love to try this out.
Do you mean how to work across a page break? I will let Catherine know of your request :)
I have tried the parking method several times, but always get impatient and go back to my usual cross-country method. Watching your video reminds me why I want to try it again! If I can relax and be patient, especially on a big HAED design, I love how consistent and controlled it is. Do you have a RUclips channel of your own, Catherine? If so, I would subscribe immediately! If not, please make as many videos with your mom as you want - you're a joy to watch and listen to :-)) Thanks for showing us all your work!
It is hard to stick to at first! Especially when you can see the same color stitches close by in the next column. I don't have a channel of my own currently, but thank you so much for the feedback!
Been looking at doing a full-coverage project (non-HAED) 1x1 on 28ct and this video is helpful. Just been trying to figure out how I'm going to get started on it. Appreciate seeing how you do yours. I like how you thread the needle too. I'll have to try it out.
I'm glad it was helpful. Catherine and I stitch a little differently, she completes each row as she goes in a 10 x 10 square as she showed in the video. I like to do all the symbols of one color in a 10 x 10 square before I move to the next color in that square. You should jump in and start one and figure out what works well for you :) Good luck!
Mahalo once again, Aloha from the big Hi!!!!
Hi Serena!
Great video..thank you for taking the time to record it. I stitch as you do with one exception. I work my 10 stitches across a row on the diagonal. This avoids getting column and page lines.
I've always been curious about that - do you have a set path like I do just in diagonal or is it something different?
I do on the diagonal and work rowby row like you. On each row i do the color that has the most spaces between stitches first so that other colors cover those carries if that makes sense. I dont like to have thread carries that are not covered especially if it spans the entire 10 stitches. I have a video on diagonal stitching. How i do it. Just search “The Needle Bugg” and it should come up for you.
Question for you... do you find that you get column lines stitching the way you do?
@@NeedleBugg I went and found your video and it made so much sense! I might try that method next time.
@@NeedleBugg I can definitely see them on the back, but I can't see them on the front. I'm curious if this will change once it's framed.
Have you ever tried stitching in 10 block squares. Filling in all the colors within the 10 block square and then parking your thread where it appears next without too much crossing over the fabric/canvas? I am starting my first full coverage HAED when my current project is complete and I am amazed how many variations of stitching a haed are available. Your work is really nice and I enjoyed watching this video. Great tips! Rick
There are definitely LOTS of different ways to stitch a HAED, lol. Catherine prefers this method. I prefer doing each square at a time, filling in one color at a time. But I can see how working on a 10 square by 10 square section would also be a great method. I have never tried it, but it could be a nice combination of cross country stitching vs filling in one section at a time.
Hi,
I have a HAED type piece that I was ready to just chuck, but decided today to have another look at your video and try this method. I am getting used to it and it’s slow going, but I have new hope for my Tree of Life piece!
I'm so happy Catherine's method helped you pull it out and work on it!! I will pass your message along to Catherine :)
@@Handworkmaniac Yes, Brenda, I am following Catherine’s method and now enjoying my piece! 👍❤️
She isan excellent teacher!!
@@LindaStitches Yay!
Thank you, now I understand your rules, I too was an accountant, an Enrolled Agent with the IRS, so I understand rules and why you have them to live by...thanks again❤️
I will tell Catherine, you comment will make her smile :)
very helpful!
Thank you so much now it makes much more sense
Thank you very much for your suggestions. The project you are working on is very impressive! Where Did you buy it?
Hello, Catherine is working on "Faery Tales" from the Heaven and Earth Designs Website. The original artwork is by James C. Christensen.
I don't know if I could stand having all of those threads started and hanging off getting tangled and knotted while you're trying to work with them. But....to each his/her won. Good luck!
Love it 😍
Catherine, that was a fabulous video! I am new to Flosstube and was watching some of your mom’s videos and when you were first on, you showed your WIPs. I caught a glimpse of this type of work and went looking on what method you used and how you were working it. This morning it was at the top of my feed. Perfect! I have 2 HAED Patterns so now I know what to do to not drive me crazy. Thank you!
Thankyou x
All the accountants I know are very meticulous. You must be as well. It shows in your work. What a gorgeous project you are working on. I can only imagine how much time you have invested in this piece already. Thank you for explaining your process. I really like your process. I do have a question though..... Would it be easier to have multiple needles on the threads so then you don't have to keep retreading?
Hi Sue! Catherine says it might be, but she prefers to just have the one needle :) Great idea!!
goodness, this all makes sense to me now. you'd get a good laugh if you knew how i thought it worked in my mind. thanks so much for this tutorial! have you noticed the pencil marks smearing on the lighter color threads as you pull them through the holes? you're almost finished! yay!
I haven't noticed any staining of the threads luckily, but I do notice that on some of the lighter color sections I can kind of see the gridlines if I know where to look
Hi Bossdaughter
Thx for the best video 🥰 Others tried to explain parking, but never made sense to me.
I’m on a rather difficult projekt for a friend of mine.. a foto from her tidying up garden around their weekend house, that was surrounded by blackberries.. She ordered a kit based on the foto.
I tried a bit and more or less gave up - lured another friend to join the projekt.. she also gave up aften many stitches..
After watching your video I have new energy and try to get my ‘1. page’ aligned to parking mode.. 😂 Its working ok..
My problem is.. what to do, as many stitches are singular..?
I use pin stitch as much as I can..
the back is terrible to look at.. guess I just have to accept it🤔
Hi Hanne! Catherine does not check the comments very often, so I thought I would send you a reply :) How wonderful of you to stitch a project for a friend, it sounds like a very meaningful piece for her. Lots of singular stitches are a problem in confetti heavy full coverage pieces. Using the pin stitch is a great idea! For myself, I have just accepted the fact that the back of my full coverage pieces using the parking method are going to look like a rug. To save my sanity, I will park a thread as many as three or four squares away to the next place it is used. But that does put a lot of thread on the back. And since this is for a friend, I can understand how that might worry you. If I know that there is just one or two stitches of a color and it won't be used anywhere else I sometimes cut a very short piece of floss, anchor it in the back, do the one or two stitches and then hide the tail in the back and cut it off. No parking.
I know a lot of people are loving the new app called "pattern keeper" that they use on a tablet. It takes a pdf of a full coverage pattern and highlights the symbol you are working on, so those onesies twosies stitches are easier to find, and to see where it is used next. I don't think it is available on "i" devices yet, just android.
Also, there is a diagonal parking method that keeps the back much neater if you are interested in that. Brian at the flosstube channel "blitstitch" uses it. He has several videos back in his earlier years that explain the process.
Good luck, and I hope you can finish it for your friend :)
Handworkmaniac
Thank you.. I just watched your other video, where you tell how you do the parking method. I totalt get that.. I ended up doing it the same way today and the progress is great 😊
As well as the rug on back 😂😂
Thanks a lot!!! I get it now!
So beautiful! Thank s for showing a new way to sew..
Hi Catherine, this is my first time on your channel. I do my stitches in the opposite direction than you do, I guess it doesn't matter as long as all of your stitches go in the same direction? I don't think that I could tolerate all of those parked threads. I'm one of those people that does one color at a time. I have a lot of trouble with my eyes and can't thread a needle easily anymore. Do you have any tips on threading a needle? I've never been as fast as you are, but I used to be able to do it a whole lot faster than I do now. I stopped stitching for about 15 years because I was having so much trouble threading a needle and stitching on linen. Everything I've done has been given away as a gift, so I don't have anything that I've stitched. I wish I had known that I would eventually have to stop stitching and made myself something. You young people who watch this channel make sure you make something for yourself in between making gifts.
Yes, luckily as long as all your stitching goes in the same direction it doesn't matter which leg you do first! As far as threading, I do it mostly by feel these days. I loop the thread over the needle and pinch it between two fingers and then slide the eye down between my fingers so it goes through. It's the way @handworkmaniac taught me when I was 8 and I just never did it any other way.
Holy moly! But totally awesome!, one day maybe.. sure lives up to your ig name!
Yes, I agree!! That was an amazing accomplishment. Early on we both starting referring to our HAED projects as "the project of insanity".
@@Handworkmaniac I have 4 picked.. can't decide... it will be my lifetime project...
How in the world are you threading that needle so quickly?!?!?
Haha, just 20 years of practice doing it a million times XD
We both thread our needles the same way. Of course she is younger and faster, LOL. You loop your thread over your needle and while squeezing it between your thumb and finger, you slide the needle out. Then while still pinching the top of that loop tight, you push the eye of the needle over the top of that pinched loop. Then let go and pull it through.
Handworkmaniac okay I am going to request an action shot in your upcoming video.. lol. Do you ladies have a favorite needle brand or go to that you use?
I couldn't do the parking method asni would get all my colors all mixed up and confused. I use each color as I need it and keep them all organized with their DMC codes to I can keep them correct and know I am using the correct colors as I go from each block to the next
Hello! That is a great way to do it as well!!! There are so many ways to stitch a full coverage piece, finding the way that makes sense to you makes it so much more enjoyable :)
Loved your video. What is the name of the piece your working on? And I correct in saying you work row by row, rethreading needle for every colour per row? Can I subscribe to your flosstube or do I just search for your other videos? Thank yoy
Hi Cathy! The original painting is "Fairy Tales" by James Christensen. You can buy the chart from Heaven and Earth Designs who adapted the pattern from the painting. Catherine does not have any plans to start her own channel right now, but I will try and have her on my channel regularly :)
Handworkmaniac thank you for the reply. Much appreciated. Will watch your other videos xxx
This is great! I've always wanted to try parking and I think I'll give it a go! What are you using under your snaps? Are you finding that it helps protect your cross stitch?
Hi Ksenia! Catherine and I both use pieces of felt or batting ("Warm and Natural" type), under the Q-snap clamps when they are going to go right on top of the stitching. I usually try to fold the edge of the fabric over so the back side is up and put that under the Q-snap if I can, when putting them over stitching. But sometimes if you are right near the edge you can't do that. We also sometimes use the felt pieces if the q-snaps are stretched out and not tight anymore, it helps make them fit tighter.
Great video. I might get the courage to try a HAED. How do you keep track of where you are on the chart? Do you colir in each stitch as you stitch it or what?
Hi Rain Jude! When I stitch HAEDs I do color in each stitch with a highlighter as I go. Catherine does not, she just keeps track in her brain, of course she is a lot younger than me, lol!
Love your explanation of your method! I just have one question-do you ever notice column lines?
I can definitely see them on the back, but I couldn't tell you where they are on the front.
Great tutorial and so many amazing tips....one thing I must comment, I don't think I've seen anyone thread a needle so fast! What size of needle are you using on the 25 count?
Hi! Catherine uses a 28 needle on 25 count. At the beginning of the next video#13 Catherine shows how we thread a needle :)
@@Handworkmaniac Yes, I've already see it, she just didn't mention the size of the needle. Thank you!
I luv your parking method. I go down the straight and narrow path as well. If I try and do it horizontally it will be a big horror show and I won't go back to it either. So I going to try this tonight cant wait to do parking now.
Have a question. If you have a color that has more than one cross do you do the three crosses then park it after your done with the stitches?
Yes :)
I just had a question on the gridding, why are your grids different for the page and the 10x10 blocks, for example your double line?
Mostly it's easier for counting when I start parking close to the end of the page. I want to see at a glance that I can pull my thread up on the last line of the page that matches up to the line I have on my fabric and not have to worry about counting it.
being new and trying to learn parking but stitching in between colors so difficult
Your explanation was very helpful to me as I have a small HEAD that I started and was doing cross country. But I want to try your method.... I have one question, when you do parking is there more thread waste? Thank you for the video and your time.
That's a good question - I would say yes for me at least because when I'm sticking to the path, I ignore the same color stitches that are close by and go to the next one on the path which is sometimes further away. But it's worth it to me.
Great and very helpful video. I’ve never tried parking because I was worried about how doing it in columns seems to create straight lines you can see in the stitching later. Have you noticed this or does your method eliminate the “lines” that form? Your video makes me want to try it out. Thanks!
Haha ok you answered my question in your next video. Thanks.
Thank you for your sharing, would you please show me how to put the canvas to the hoop like yours. Thank you in advance. TP
Hello! I show how to load a "q-snap frame" in video #32. Maybe that would help :)
Hello, this is amazing coverage with 1 thread! How do you start your thread with one strand? Also do you use a stand and if so which one?
Hello!! Catherine rarely looks at the comments, so I will try and answer for her :) Catherine holds the tail of the thread behind with her left hand and catches them into the first few stitches to start a thread. And she does not use a stand, just q-snaps that she holds in her hands.
What pattern is this? I like it 😊