Most hated part of Cross Stitching

Icelandic Hitman · Post by **Icelandic Hitman** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 2:31 am

What is everybodies most annoying/hated part of crossstitiching?

Mine is when you only have 5 or so stitches left and the thread is shorter than the needle and you have to thread it each time on each side.

IzzyXIII · Post by **IzzyXIII** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 3:42 am

I know that pain oh too well!
And also, when you run out of a certain thread colour, needed to finish off a few stitches, to finish one part of a project (this happened to me 2 days ago!)

double j · Post by **double j** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 5:43 am

I can't stand the backstitching. That why I like the patterns on here most do not have the backstitching.

techno-ninja · Post by **techno-ninja** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 6:06 am

blocks of colour, stitching in rows of exactly the same colour for what feels like forever!

Nitewing · Post by **Nitewing** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 6:49 am

I HATE back stitching!

Ellentje · Post by **Ellentje** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 8:04 am

Taking out stitches because you made a mistake..

StitchPlease · Post by **StitchPlease** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 8:51 am

The worst part for me is trying to wash and frame it. I don't mind any of the stitching, but trying to take something you've worked on for so long and doing things to it gives me panic attacks! Or when I cut the fabric 1 mm too short and now it won't fit in the frame. I know I was so upset when, on the first big pattern I did, I wanted it to look nice so I ironed it. I ended up with a huge burn mark around it where my hoop had been! Ugh!

Sorry, I needed to vent about that.

RAWRmonster · Post by **RAWRmonster** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 10:14 am

When I've filled in the outline to everything, and I have small places that are only one or two pixels, I have the hardest time squeezing my needle into the holes without picking up thread from the outline. It takes foreeeeeeever.

Post by **blackmageheart** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 11:24 am

I hate the part of a stitching where I'm almost finished but there's a lot of odd stitches to do, of different colours, here and there - that part seems to take forever and I always feel like it's never going to be complete

That and unpicking, only to find you had it in the right place to begin with

Stardrifter · Post by **Stardrifter** » Sun Jan 23, 2011 4:52 pm

french knots. took me forever to learn. i still hate doing them though.

that, and when your thread gets a knot in it. the knot is of course easy to get out usually but it's annoying nonetheless, lol
use smaller lengths they say - keep letting your thread dangle so it unwinds every now and then they say
but oh no- i get knots anyways. forever in knots :o right when i'm in the zone too.

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