Hi readers 🙂
Haha so, a year has passed since I last posted a picture update of my Past, Present, Forever WIP. Has it really been that long and has time passed that quickly? This piece has to stop being a WIP soon, but I have a big feeling two or three years might pass and this will still be a WIP, lol.
I finished the last of the DMC 501 dark blue green(?) stitches and most of the random stitches I missed (I’m getting soooo sick of these confetti stitches!). I hope next to update soon with all the cross-stitches done here, then on to the backstitches after that. 🙂 Can someone please explain why backstitches seem to be one of the most hated things for cross-stitching? And last, the embellishments and this piece will be all done :D.
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I believe back stitches are the most annoying hated stitch because you have to keep looking back at the pattern and making sure you are going into the right spot. It also takes so long to do the amount of back stitches before the piece actually looks like you’ve done something. This is at least the reason for me. Happy WIPing!!! 😁
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Ooh, you’re right about it taking a while before the back stitches become noticeable. The joy of working with one strand at a time XD. Thanks for your input!
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I don’t mind the back stitch (in most cases). I like the definition. It probably helps that it takes me so long to do a TW that the bs feels like no time at all, and that Mirabilia/Nora Corbett don’t have much bs!
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TW?
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Sorry! Teresa Wentzler designs. She has a lot.
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Back stitches are ok, but it definitely takes some getting used to with poking the needle in the right hole. My most hated stitch is the French knot, ugh.
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Oh mine too I still can’t get them looking right.
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Oh yes, the French knot! I don’t know about you, but if I do a lot of them at once (like in my geisha cross-stitch) they’re a killer on my fingers.
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