Today was the first day of the first annual Renegade Craft Fair held in Los Angeles. It’s held in Chicago and Brooklyn and San Francisco and I barely heard about it making an appearance here. I wish I had applied. But today I snooped. I was in search of glass people. My people. And I found a few…well more than a few but not as many as I had expected or honestly had hoped for (makes me really wish I had applied). The work I did find was really cool and I plan to show off each artists’ work in the coming days. For more information on the Renegade Craft Fair check out their web site at http://www.renegadecraft.com/. After the show today the good people of etsy are hosting a little get together. I’m headed there now. More on that later…
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How to Rip Out Cross Stitch Mistakes
I’ve recently been doing more embroidery than usual, and while I do tend to be rather intuitive when I stitch rather than planning it out too much or caring if all the stitches are perfect, there was a particular section that I felt the need to rip out. Twice.
In cross stitch as well as embroidery, there may come a time when you need to rip out a few stitches or a big section of a project. Maybe you put a stitch or a few where they didn’t belong, used the wrong color or just didn’t like the look of something once it was on the fabric.
What’s the best way to work back in cross stitch? As with most things, the answer is it depends.
But for a look at your options, I don’t think I’ve seen a better rundown than this post from Sirious Stitches. There’s a video in the post if you don’t want to read it all, but either way there are some great ideas and things to think about when you need to rip out stitches.
I think we’ve all stitched backwards from time to time when we put a stitch or two in the wrong place, but it’s helpful to know what the best solution is when you’ve got more ground to cover. Or uncover, in this case.
Personally I was a little afraid to use a seam ripper but I’m glad to see that’s a valid option if you’re careful.
The post also has good tips for cleaning up your project after you rip things out, since you might have some stray thread tails of fuzzy bits that need to be dealt with before you get back to stitching.
There’s lots of great stuff in there worth reading before you need it and keeping handy in case you need to remove a bunch of stitches from a project.
Have you ever ripped out a lot of cross stitch? I’d love to hear how you went about it.
[Photo: Sirious Stitches]