[Nfb-krafters-korner] Plastic Canvas

[Dixie]

Take your needle and run it along the back under 4 or 5 stitches.  You also
do the same thing with the starter tail.  There are no knots in needlepoint!
Sometimes when I feel the stitches on the back are large and am concerned
that the tail may work itself out to easily, I will run it underneath 4 or 5
stitches, then turn and run it underneath an adjoining row in the opposite
direction.  So it will be running under the back threads in a u shape.


Dixie

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[mailto:nfb-krafters-korner-bounces at nfbnet.org] On Behalf Of Terrence van
Ettinger
Sent: Tuesday, November 09, 2010 1:11 AM
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Subject: Re: [Nfb-krafters-korner] Plastic Canvas

OK, you know what happens when I get more than one idea running around my
head at once, don't you?  '-)  They sort of converge to spawn other ideas.
So...now I'm working on a single-color mix of Terry's loop pattern and the
continental stitch.  '-)  I think it's looking pretty neat so far.  '-)  One
question I have though: what do you do with the end of the working yarn when
you've finished the piece/

Thanks,
Terrence

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On Nov 8, 2010, at 11:48 AM, "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
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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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