[Nfb-krafters-korner] Plastic Canvas

[Terrence van Ettinger]

Gotcha!  Makes good sense now.  Had to start over though since I got frustigated and ended up butchering everything.  I'm on track now; it's working out perfectly.

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On Nov 9, 2010, at 6:21 AM, "Dixie" <blueherons at sbcglobal.net> wrote:

> 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
>> 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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