Continue like this until you reach the edge of the fabric.Ĥ. Now count 10 more holes and bring your needle up the 11th hole.Bring your needle up at the first hole and then count 10 holes and put your needle down through the 11th.You can choose any length of stitch to create the gridlines, in the example below I have used 10 spaces. Don’t knot the thread at the start but leave enough thread to ensure the thread doesn’t pull all the way through while you are stitching. Cut enough thread to enable you to stitch 2 lines of gridding, you want to be able to do two complete rows with one piece of thread so you don’t run out of thread half way through a line.Ģ. To create your grid follow the instructions for the soluble pen method in the section above but replace drawing lines onto the fabric with stitches.ġ. Remember to choose a thread colour that shows up well on your colour of fabric. You could use thread but, depending on the thread you choose, it can be accidentally split if you put your needle through it while you are stitching your design and then it is difficult to remove when you come to remove the grid. You can also use fishing line but you need to ensure that it is as thin a line as possible. It is very similar to fishing line so doesn’t split and is easy to remove once you have finished If you are going to grid using this method I recommend you use ’Easy Count Guideline’ which is available at most Stitching shops. If you are unsure It may be worth taking a small piece of the fabric, trying out the pen and then washing it to ensure it is completely removed. This way of gridding is the quickest but you need to ensure your pen is water soluble unless you are stitching a full cover design where the lines will be hidden by the stitches. These lines now correspond to the darker lines on the grid of your chart. Now turn the fabric through 90° and repeat the same process until the fabric is gridded.ĥ. Starting from the centre line and working towards the left draw a line every 11th hole until you reach the edge of the fabric, now repeat on the right hand side.Ĥ. Now draw a straight line through the centre of the fabric and then turn the fabric through 90° and draw another straight line through the centre of the fabric, draw the line so that it goes OVER the holes in the fabric.ģ. Find the centre of your fabric either by folding in half and then half again or by using a ruler.Ģ. If you are going to draw the grid onto your fabric you will need a water soluble pen in a colour that stands out from the colour of fabric you are using.ġ. The fabric is divided into 10 stitch x 10 stitch sections and there is two ways to do this you can either draw the grid onto the fabric with a water soluble pen or stitch lines to mark the sections. Gridding makes the fabric look more similar to the chart and helps when counting to find where to place your stitches. To help with following a cross stitch chart some people like to prepare the fabric by stitching a grid onto it, this is known as ‘Gridding’.
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