How to Make the Full Cross Horizontal Stitch
Hi, I’m Jannette and we’re back in my cross stitch room in Old Town Needlecrafts. When we left on the last segment, we were doing half cross stitches and now we need to finish them by crossing them. We’re going to come up in the lower right hand corner of the last stitch on this line.
I’m using a stick and stab methods because I’m working on Aida cloth as oppose to working on linen and I don’t want to split the little threads that are in the corners of the Aida cloth. If you’d look, there is a little thread right here and I don’t want to split that. I want to keep them so that all the threads come in and out of the same holes and look nice and neat. So, I’m going to cross this like going from the lower right to the upper left.
As you become more proficient in your cross stitch, you perhaps will want to even lay the threads to give even it a little better look. There are several different ways to do that but one of the easiest ones is simply to take your needle, run up between the two threads and carry it up and when you go down in, the thread will just follow down in and will lay side by side. It goes just a little smoother, nicer look to the finish.
Let's go all the way across this row and again, let me emphasize that these stitches are going in the same direction. I have not reversed the way I’m crossing the top and that is so that when they’re buying there in the same direction, they’ll give a uniform look as the light catches them. It will take me just a few minutes to finish this row.
Coming up next, we’re going to show you how to do a full cross stitch vertically.
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