How to Make the Full Cross Vertical Stitch

How to Make the Full Cross Vertical Stitch

Hi, I’m Jannette. In this segment, I’m going to show you how to do a vertical full cross stitch. We’re going to be starting up at the top in the left hand corner. If I were going directly underneath of my last stitch, I would simply bring the needle down to the square that is just under that stitch and come up into the left hand corner and pull it up.

However, I am going to have to go to the left just one stitch if you look at the graph, you’ll see that it is over one stitch. So, let me take this back up this way. What I’m going to do is I’m going to come up in the lower left hand corner of the last stitch where I just did my horizontal cross stitch. The needle is coming up there and just for this one stitch, I'm going to be going, let's pull out a little tangle. We don’t leave tangles on the back. I kind of caught in my away thread.

For this one little stitch, we’re going to be going from the top down to the bottom. I call them turn around stitches. Then we’re going to go over to the bottom right and cross to the upper left.

When we are doing vertical cross-stitch, unlike horizontal cross stitch, we cross stitch as we go. So the next stitch is directly underneath for the one we’ve just completed. So we dropped down to the lower left hand corner and we cross from lower left to upper right. There’s your half cross stitch and now you come in lower right to upper left. We will do 18 of these going down. That is this little line right here on the graph. So let's take a minute out now to do the 18 vertical cross stitches.

The next stitch that we’re going to do is we’re going to fill in these diagonals going across the graph.


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