[Nfb-krafters-korner] Plastic Canvas

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

The center is a square.  It starts with the small stitch, up one bar and over one bar, the next is up 2 and over 2 bars, the next is up 3 and over 3.  It expands until you reach the corner and have a triangle and then you do the same, but contract or make your stitches smaller, in sequence.  At the end, you will have a nicely filled in square with tiny to large and back to tiny stitches.  I think the square was 5 stitches across or 6.

Terry P.
 

-----Original Message-----
From: Terrence van Ettinger [mailto:terrencevane at gmail.com] 
Sent: Monday, November 08, 2010 5:18 PM
To: List for blind crafters and artists
Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Plastic Canvas

Ah!!  OK, I think I get it now; I was doing up-over 1, then up-over 2, then up-over 1, then up-over 2.  I'll have to do it the other way after I finish the one I've re-started with the continental stitch.
And now I know what to do with the tail, too.  So in the center, on your pattern, it looks like you're indicating some uber-sized stitches on that block bit.  Am I reading that right

Terrence

On 11/8/10, Powers, Terry (NIH/OD/DEAS) [E] <Terry.Powers at nih.gov> wrote:
> 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.
>
>
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Terrence van Ettinger [mailto:terrencevane at gmail.com]
> Sent: Saturday, November 06, 2010 8:06 PM
> To: List for blind crafters and artists
> 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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