[Nfb-krafters-korner] Plastic Canvas

[Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E]]

I think you are doing it right.  The first stitch is up one bar and over one bar.  All the rest are up 2 bars and over 2 bars.  The last stitch before turning is up one bar and over one bar, like your first stitch, but it is at the bottem of the odlong rectangle.  See my other message.

Terry P.
 

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From: Terrence van Ettinger [mailto:terrencevane at gmail.com] 
Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 8:06 PM
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Subject: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Plastic Canvas

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Hello all,
I'm starting to take a shot at plastic canvas, and have a few questions on it.
I'm following Terry P.'s coaster pattern, and the stitches I get sort of look like 1 little bitty diagonal line and one longer diagonal line.  Is this accurate?  I was envisioning more of an X-shaped stitchough 2-1, then down through 3-2, up through 1-1, down through
3-3 produces the 2 parallel lines I described.  Also, is the "down"
side supposed to look different than the "up" side?
When I finish a loop, what should I be doing with the beginning end, where I started stitching?
For the final block, it looks like the idea is just to make straight shots on the diagonal; is this right?
It says that the edging is supposed to come from under 4 squares-worth of the loop.  But wouldn't that create an unsightly underside?

Thanks,
Terrence

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