I've only been stitching regularly for two or three years (I'm not sure when I started doing it regularly), but first learned five years ago. However, I start from the center like pretty much everyone else said and work outward. The order I do things in is mostly dependent on the design and how my brain decides to organize the different shapes and parts that compose the pattern.
There's been only one time I did not work from the center and that was from a Subversive Cross Stitch kit in which the designer originally tried it that way, but found that she didn't have enough room for the design if she worked from the center. She ended up putting in the instructions that you should start from the right hand side, but the pattern was just a phrase and only needed one color: black.
I've learned how to cross stitch mostly from kits and I still primarily work on kit projects though I am starting to think about expanding out of my comfort zone with kits and just getting patterns and my own thread and aida fabric.
I'm a bit weird because I don't use a hoop since I don't like them, so I can't really give a suggestion as to that. I want to use scroll bars, but I can't figure out the ones I own.
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Date: 2011-05-02 02:49 pm (UTC)There's been only one time I did not work from the center and that was from a Subversive Cross Stitch kit in which the designer originally tried it that way, but found that she didn't have enough room for the design if she worked from the center. She ended up putting in the instructions that you should start from the right hand side, but the pattern was just a phrase and only needed one color: black.
I've learned how to cross stitch mostly from kits and I still primarily work on kit projects though I am starting to think about expanding out of my comfort zone with kits and just getting patterns and my own thread and aida fabric.
I'm a bit weird because I don't use a hoop since I don't like them, so I can't really give a suggestion as to that. I want to use scroll bars, but I can't figure out the ones I own.