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Thank you My message was cut off. This is in regards to aida not matching chart. Erma ❤️ California

Hi, sorry I just saw your comment just now, apologies for not replying sooner. These charts are not as easy to do as they're made out to be I don't think. Honestly, having done both counted cross stitch (where you have a blank aida and are working just from the symbols on the chart) and these stamped kits, in a way now I actually prefer the counted ones. But only if its a chart I can put in an app called Pattern Keeper. I don't know if you've ever heard of it but it's an amazing app that you have open on a tablet and makes it much easier to work with. Does the aida have symbols printed on it at the edge? All of the stamped kits I have have that. The symbols printed on the edge of the fabric match exactly to the stitching area, and they tell you what number of thread to use. Usually, because they're on the edge of the picture, they'll be tucked away out of the way when you're stitching, so I just take a photo of them all on my phone or tablet, so that I can refer to the photo once its folded away. Its much easier. Does that answer your question? If not just let me know and I'll try to help you more. It sounds like you're not happy with how it's turning out. There can be 2 reasons for this with cross stitch. One is that you can never really tell how something will look until you've added in all the stitches around it, because the different colours of thread all create an effect when placed next to each other that you won't see properly until you've done more of it. The other is that the chart just hasn't been done well. I honestly hope its the 1st reason for you. If its the 2nd reason....I suppose it depends where you got your chart from, but I know I had problems with a Chinese company I ordered from before, they promised me a few times they'd send out the thread that was missing on a chart and each time I never got it so I gave up in the end. Let me know how you get on.

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Thanks, yeah I learned how to knit when I was 4 years old and have knitted all my life on and off since then, I only properly discovered crochet, other than only knowing how to do this one type of granny square, during covid. I didn't realise how many different types of things you could crochet and all the different styles etc! As soon as I discovered it I loved it, and picked it up really quickly. Haven't posted videos of all the things I've made but I suppose I should. Its such an enjoyable thing to do. Thanks 🙂

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Gracias 😀 No, porque eso no es de mi propia patron, es de un patron de Crystal's and Crochet, de Helen Shrimpton. La puedes encontrar en el Internet. Tiene que comprar el patron, pero vale la pena pienso porque es un patron muy bueno. Hay una option tambien de comprar el patron con videos, que muestran como hacerlo, que son muy buenos. Los recomendaria de verdad. Hay tambien otros patrones similares en su sitio que son buenos.

Thanks ☺️ I don't know, ever since I was about 8 years old I wanted to grow my nails and just started, don't know how they grow so well tbh. I've always just put it down to using my hands a lot for my hobbies, I've done knitting on and off since I was very young and now crocheting as well. Need to keep my nails on my left hand short for playing music that's how they're different lengths on both hands 🙂

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Hi, sorry for the late reply, yes I don't see why not.

Thanks, this one in the video is called Inspiring India by a designer called Crazy Cat Crochet Lady, I'm in her fb group, she has some amazing patterns. I just join different fb crochet groups and whenever I see a photo of something I like usually people comment to ask where they got the pattern from, that's how I find my patterns. They're mainly on Ravelry to buy. If you like mosaic crochet style, join the Mosaic Crochet World fb group and you'll see people posting photos of things by different pattern designers. Hope you enjoy it, thanks for commenting.

You're welcome, yes most of mine are on either 25ct or 28ct with 2/1 tent stitch. I actually prefer 25ct now though because the 28ct can get a bit crowded and more difficult to get the needle through. Thanks for watching and hope you enjoy your stitching.

This video is for odd numbers like 1 or 3 strands. If you're doing 2 strands, you just need to take one big long one and fold it in half, and use the loop at the end which happens naturally. Hope that helps, thanks for watching.

Glad it was helpful!

Hope you enjoy doing it 😊

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You're welcome, I use easycount gridded aida, sorry I'm not sure what evenweave is, is that linen? You know more than me! 😀 I've never dared to try linen, always used the material that's a bit stiffer with well defined holes on the 4 corners, so I think that means aida? Either way it's called easycount gridded, I think Zweigart makes it, I'd only ever do counted projects on the gridded material now, it makes things so much quicker and easier for counting where the stitches go.

Thank you for that, I cannot find 28 count Aida as yet in Australia, only 25 count, so will keep looking. Even weave is a bit like linen.

I actually prefer 25ct now to 28ct, I just finished a mini HAED on 28ct, and it reminded me that although the coverage with 2 strands tent stitch is perfect, it actually gets really difficult to stitch through areas that are already filled with stitches when you get near the end of your project. On open spaces it's fine, but I was having trouble pushing the needle through in the crowded areas, so now I'm thinking 25ct is actually my favourite. The coverage doesn't look as good as 28ct while you're stitching, but actually when your project is finished it's totally fine, and when you wash a project it fluffs up the threads a little bit more again. And bearing in mind that when you're working on something the aida is stretched out on a frame...Once it's been off the frame for a while and maybe shrunk down a tiny bit, which must happen as well, 25ct is perfect, so id just go with that if I was you. I'm seriously now thinking about whether to restart some of my current wips on 25ct...not decided yet though. Its just that bit easier to get your stitches through towards the end.

@@malaquitastitches thank you.

Thanks, aw thats brilliant, glad you're happy with your 1st one. Hope you enjoy making your next one. I'm doing a little mini doll now from another youtube tutorial. I like doing it that way because I can physically see what it's supposed to look like as I go, and some of the types of stitches are still new to me. I'll do a video of that once it's finished, hopefully soon. Its quite enjoyable to do isn't it! Much quicker than the big blankets I'm used to making. Enjoy! 😀

Thank you so much!

Can you describe it a bit more to me please and I'll see if I can help you?

They're usually all just full crosses on the stamped kits. The symbols on the aida should match a list of symbols on the chart, and you can see from the chart which colour you need to use for that symbol. Does that help? If not, let me know what you need more explanation about and I'll see if I can help you.

@malaquitastitches Thank you for getting back to me regarding symbols on stamped cross stitching kit. I have spent hours trying to find out what each symbol means. Even tried to look on Amazon for a book on cross stitching symbols. I understand the color coding but not the symbols like a full arrow a half shaded area, cross sign. I understand a dot in the square symbol may mean a French not. I feel stuck. I sure appreciate you getting back to me. Thank you again Erma

Are you in any of the cross stitch facebook groups? It's a shame you can't post a photo on here so I can see what you mean, but if you go on any of the big fb cross stitch groups and post a photo of it I'm sure you'll get lots of answers really quickly explaining it, people in the groups will know and they're really helpful.

@malaquitastitches No I don't even know how to use Facebook. I'm an elderly person and really behind the times. I love to sew and since I'm bed bound my doctor suggested I take up cross stitching since I told her I miss going to my sewing machine and sew dolls and other crafts. I'm determined to figure this out. Know how to embroider, but want to learn so much about cross stitching. My young caretaker can help me set up Facebook. Again thank you so much for the info. I will let you know how it goes. Have a wonderful Sunday and God bless you for caring. Erma

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Aw you're welcome, glad my videos are being useful to someone 😀 what I would say though is be careful on the bigger stitches/lower counts with tent stitch, because you can see differences much clearer. So if I was doing a 14 ct project I wouldn't switch half way through because that might be quite noticeable. But definitely with the really high counts like 18-20 and above, where the stitches just look like little dots anyway to the eye, you shouldn't notice a difference. Try out a little section and see how it goes, and with a little section you can always take it out again if you don't like it. Good luck 😀

No I got this one from Qian ze hui but I think zozack does them as well, think they all come from the same factory it looks like

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I need to buy them separately, get them from Lakeside Needlecraft, I buy a few at a time but to be fair they last a long time, one will usually last me at least 6 months of constant use.

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