{"id":185,"date":"2011-04-01T16:24:01","date_gmt":"2011-04-01T16:24:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/designneedlepointkits.com\/?p=185"},"modified":"2011-04-01T16:24:01","modified_gmt":"2011-04-01T16:24:01","slug":"make-embroidery-floss-stich-even-needlepoint","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.needlepaint.com\/blog\/2011\/04\/01\/make-embroidery-floss-stich-even-needlepoint\/","title":{"rendered":"Making Embroidery Floss Stitch Evenly in Needlepoint"},"content":{"rendered":"
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6 Strand Embroidery Floss<\/p><\/div>\n

We recently had an issue with 6 strand cotton embroidery floss that I think others may find helpful.<\/p>\n

A customer told me that they felt the embroidery floss we supply with our needlepoint kits<\/a> was ‘messy’.\u00a0 After doing some research (they called the shop owner a Phoenix Needlepoint<\/a>) they found that if you pull apart the 6 strands, then run them back together in a strait line that the stitches are much neater.<\/p>\n

I’ve not heard this before, but I checked with Peggy, and she mentioned that she does something similar.<\/p>\n

“After I cut the thread to a 12-15 inch length, I always run it through my fingers to get any twists out of it. This makes it lay flat and even.”<\/p>\n

“The other issue might be the direction in which she is doing the stitch. You want whenever possible to bring your thread from the back to the front in a hole that does not already have thread in it…then you go from front to back into the hole with thread. If you come from the back in a hole with thread there is drag on your thread which can cause irregularity.”<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

We recently had an issue with 6 strand cotton embroidery floss that I think others may find helpful. A customer told me that they felt the embroidery floss we supply with our needlepoint kits was ‘messy’.\u00a0 After doing some research (they called the shop owner a Phoenix Needlepoint) they found that if you pull apart […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[17,21],"tags":[106,186,217,233,260],"yoast_head":"\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\r\n\n\t\r\n