Here the crow, fence, and dark areas of the cat were all dark brown. That’s because needlepoint relies more on the thread and stitch texture to convey information that in Cross Stitch is conveyed only by color. Sometimes, as was the case here, Cross Stitch has fewer colors than a similar needlepoint would. The little bit of sparkle in these threads helps make the flower, beak, and bird’s legs better accents in the piece. Instead of stitching it in floss, I stitched it in two colors of Neon Rays +. The daffodil here is a good example of this. By switching to different threads for some areas, we can create more texture and add emphasis. A needlepoint stitched in a single thread can look a bit flat to us. In needlepoint, we use many more threads. A vast majority of thread used for Cross Stitch is cotton embroidery floss. I switched the right stitch and turned the top of the legs to a cross stitch so it would point to both legs. Happily in this piece, the only place where I had this problem was the bird’s legs. If your adaptation has these, you will need to switch the slant of the stitch. That’s just a characteristic of thin diagonal lines when they are made with slanted stitches. If the line slants in the opposite direction of the stitch, the line is dotted. If the line slants the same way as the stitch slants, the line is solid. That means that no matter the slant, a single thread diagonal line has a blocky look. Cross Stitch has a huge advantage over needlepoint - its stitches are square. I chose black, but it could be any color.īeware of lines that slant up and to the right. I thought it would look silly to continue the sky all around the piece, so I decided that one thread unpainted canvas border would be stitched in a different color. It seemed pretty silly to me to have a fence against a white sky because I wanted this to be a sunny day. On my cat, both the sky and the black border were just white canvas. When a chart is converted to a canvas, these areas are just blank canvas. In Cross Stitch, the huge variety of fabric colors and textures means that you can have open areas because the fabric is doing the work of needlepoint’s stitched background. One of the big appeals of Cross Stitch for many stitchers (it was for me) is that the fabric does the work of all that background stitching you do in needlepoint. Things to ChangeĪdd in color to the “open” spaces. I took advantage of the designer’s retirement last year to buy several of the versions of her charts that were converted to hand-painted canvases by Stitch-its. I’ve stitched a fair amount of Cross Stitch in my life and Prairie Schooler is one of my favorites. ![]() But in order to make it look like great needlepoint, you may have to go a bit further. Yes, you can do this and your project will look fine. ![]() You might think adapting cross stitch to needlepoint is just a matter of replacing each Cross Stitch with a Tent Stitch. Stitch-its canvas of Prairie Schooler design, photo copyright Napa Needlepoint
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