cross- stitch advice?

[SonderingSusan]

Hey Everyone. 

Please have a look at my photos my cross stitch. I am using 0.6 ritza tiger thread and a KSblade punch round dent to make the holes. I tried to use "lin cable au chinois" in size 832 , but it kept unravelling and breaking between all the back and forth. The ritza is waxy and hard to use, but works better. I got about 3/4 through my project and the whole thing got too loose on the  front and tight on the back and then a thread snapped. I have come to the realization this method won't work for me. 

 

If anyone has any advice i would be so grateful. i feel i need another kind of thread/ and bigger holes spaced a bit wider apart. KS blade punch don't make any bigger punches. so i have ordered a 1mm punch drive from tandy and am gonna punch the holes by hand i think.

Please tell me what you think,

 

Thanks ,

s

[kiwican]

I stiched a cylinder like this a while ago it did take me a few times to get it right. What I found help me was to tighten and pull the stitches to where I needed them to be every so often. The thread used was just a standard Tandy thread I had laying around. And slow and steady wins the race 

[jcuk]

Hi you might want to try a one needle size up for the thread you are using,  it may stretch your stitching holes slightly just

enough to make it easier for your thread to go through. I would have little practise first just  to see how it works out.

Kiwican is right to say you may have to go back and pull your stitches tight again to where you up to.

 

Hope this helps JCUK 

[garypl]

I run stitching up both sides, then cross stitch between the two lines of stitching.  Once I finish I glue a reinforcing strip on the back side.  Seems to be very strong and holding up well after carrying many bottles of beer!

Gary

[chrisash]

Thats the same way most leather steering wheels are covered in the UK, if the tensions are just right it makes a really nice design