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Posted by Bruce wyatt on October 19, 2009, 11:42 am
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> I do have a Dimensions to DMC conversion chart I put together from a
> couple different ones I had. =EF=BF=BDIf you'd like, contact me off-list =
and
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> I'll email it to you.
> Joan
Joan - I don't know how to contact you off-list, but I really, really
need to get a site for this. I had one, but for some reason when I go
to favorite places and click on the one I saved and it is no longer
there. My email is xsfrances@aol.com. Thanks. Frances
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Posted by on October 16, 2009, 2:08 pm
On Fri, 16 Oct 2009 08:15:34 -0700 (PDT), "Joan E."
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>> I have been working on Woodland Enchantress for a year.
>> I have run out of floss in every color at least one if not more.
>> Why did I run out so many times?
>Sorry to hear you've been having so much trouble.
>Just trying to think of possibilities here. Do you do one stitch at a
>time (uses more thread) or go across a row with the first half stitch
>and then back? Do you carry your threads a long distance to the next
>spot? Use waste knots? Are you using the suggested number of strands
>or adding another?
>Like Lucille, I've never run out of floss on a kit and usually have a
>bunch left over (which I never know what to do with but still save,
>for some unknown reason), maybe because I'm also a "thread saver" like
>she is! :)
>I do have a Dimensions to DMC conversion chart I put together from a
>couple different ones I had. If you'd like, contact me off-list and
>I'll email it to you.
>Joan
The Dimensions to DMC conversion chart is up on rctnp - look under
Files.
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Posted by Donna D. on October 17, 2009, 7:04 am
I alway stitch one at a time. I never knew it used more floss.
Why would it?
That was something I picked up a long time ago.
When I replaced the kit I noticed most floss only came it 2 or 3 lenghts and
the picture calls for a lot of strands for each
.Donna
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> I have been working on Woodland Enchantress for a year.
> I have run out of floss in every color at least one if not more.
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> Why did I run out so many times?
Sorry to hear you've been having so much trouble.
Just trying to think of possibilities here. Do you do one stitch at a
time (uses more thread) or go across a row with the first half stitch
and then back? Do you carry your threads a long distance to the next
spot? Use waste knots? Are you using the suggested number of strands
or adding another?
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Posted by F.James Cripwell on October 17, 2009, 9:20 am
"Donna D." (boocxnnut@hotpop.net) writes:
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> I alway stitch one at a time. I never knew it used more floss.
> Why would it?
> That was something I picked up a long time ago.
> When I replaced the kit I noticed most floss only came it 2 or 3 lenghts and
> the picture calls for a lot of strands for each
> .Donna
Take a look at the back of the work. Remember at the front of the work,
doing counted cross stitch, you always use exactly the same amount of
floss; two diagonal stitches. At the back of the work, the minimum is
straight stitches along the sides of the square which has the cross in
front. Anything more, uses more floss. If you stitch one at a time, you
always need a diagonal stitch at the back. If you stitch a row of the
first half of the sttich on the way out, and the second half on the way
back, all the stitches on the back are straight, not diagonal.
I have had this discussion at our Guild. Frankly no-one is the slightest
bit interested, with good reason. The amount of floss you save is hardly
worthwhile. But people admire the back of my work. The question I ask
is, when you are stitching do you think about what the back of the work
looks like? No-one, other than myself, bothers. I do. I know precisely
what is happening at the back of my work when I stitch the front. Jim.
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Posted by Fred on October 16, 2009, 11:27 pm
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>I have been working on Woodland Enchantress for a year.
> I have ran out of floss in every color at least one if not more. I wrote
> and received quickly, replacement floss but the chart is ripping and it
> was replaced once in the beginning since I like a working chart.So I
> found another kit cheap on e bay and decided to just buy the kit over,
> sell the fabric and use all the floss it came with.
> Why did I run out so many times?
> I did make some mistakes but not enough to warrant running out of so much
> floss.
> This is the first kit I used the floss in for a long time since there was
> so many colors. For $38.00 I would think there would be extra floss.
> Does anyone have this problem or is it just me?
> Donna
I have only had one problem with a kit but I DON'T think that it was a
Dimension Gold Kit, I can't remember the supplier.
Most charts are marked off with a heavy line every ten lines. This
particuler chart was marked the same way. HOWEVER, the FIRST heavy line from
the outside edge of the chart on the RIGHT was NINE lines from the edge, the
FIRST heavy line from the outside edge of the chart on the LEFT was TEN
lines from the edge.
Being as how I always start at the top right hand corner (work right to
left) a considerable amount of blue smoke developed around me when I found
out that stitches I had at a location 117 stitches from the right should
have been 116 stitches from the right. I didn't find out the error until I
did some stitching from the center and worked to the right.
Now I grid every canvas!!!!!
As for marketing problems with kits I think it depends on the company and
quantity produced, AND !!!
I have been told that there are some kits assembled off shore.
They are packaged in the USA.
Because the packaging costs more than the kits (packaging must be 75%
higher) the kits are labeled product of USA.
This holds true for a lot of items these days - CDs are one example.
Fred
http://www.stitchaway.com
If nothing changes, nothing changes.
Don't back stitch to email, just stitchit.
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