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amalnahurriyehThanks, everyone, for the super-nice comments on my first post. I just finished working the lion for my son, and wanted to show it off. :)
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In terms of all of your advice, I got a hoop while I was at the craft store. It did help with the wrist pain, but I actually had a sizing problems; I got a good-sized hoop (8 inches), but I'd already trimmed some scrap off my piece of cloth, so the part I was working wasn't 8 inches across! This meant it was hard to stretch. I'm going to be starting my next piece on a bigger piece of cloth, so I won't have that problem this time.
And working with shorter pieces of floss when dividing is definitely easier. It does mean I have to rethread more often, which can be annoying, but not ending up with terrible knots is much more important.
If I can pick your brains again: I'm starting work on this tonight, which I'm working for my son's cousin. (There was a LOT of debate about whether Cousin should get A LION JUST LIKE ME or A WHALE.) The pattern has big swatches of a single color at the center, and then smaller stripes above and below. My instinct is to work it linearly, starting from the left-hand side and working the tail first. But should I start with the big, medium blue shape of the body, and then add in the above-and-below bits? Would that make it structurally stronger?
( cut for 2 photos )
In terms of all of your advice, I got a hoop while I was at the craft store. It did help with the wrist pain, but I actually had a sizing problems; I got a good-sized hoop (8 inches), but I'd already trimmed some scrap off my piece of cloth, so the part I was working wasn't 8 inches across! This meant it was hard to stretch. I'm going to be starting my next piece on a bigger piece of cloth, so I won't have that problem this time.
And working with shorter pieces of floss when dividing is definitely easier. It does mean I have to rethread more often, which can be annoying, but not ending up with terrible knots is much more important.
If I can pick your brains again: I'm starting work on this tonight, which I'm working for my son's cousin. (There was a LOT of debate about whether Cousin should get A LION JUST LIKE ME or A WHALE.) The pattern has big swatches of a single color at the center, and then smaller stripes above and below. My instinct is to work it linearly, starting from the left-hand side and working the tail first. But should I start with the big, medium blue shape of the body, and then add in the above-and-below bits? Would that make it structurally stronger?
