Where to go next with cross stitch
Bigger charts, evenweave and linen, blending and specialty stitches.
- Move to finer Aida (16 or 18-count) for smaller, more detailed pieces.
- Try evenweave or linen, stitching 'over two' threads, the method used before Aida was introduced in 1890.
- Blend colours by putting one strand each of two colours in the needle (tweeding).
- Use water-soluble canvas to cross stitch onto clothes.
- Try related counted styles such as blackwork.
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