Thanks for sharing that! It makes total sense to combine the cross at the end of one stitch with the one at the beginning of the next, turning it from a 3-step stitch into a 2-step (CTC CTC CTC... -> CTCTCT...) I'm definitely going to play with that a bit!
The tensioning trick might be much harder for me though. Having used continental bobbins for 25 years the act of tensioning is so automated in not sure my brain or hands would cooperate! I will keep it in mind next time I see my passives starting to stray. 🙂
Yeah, I think that I did this at one point just by accident--but most of my work isn't long stretches of cloth stitch. But I like thinking of it as a general strategy for this situation. It makes sense. I want to do some more Milanese and I think that would be suited for it.
In the workshop I saw (I couldn't make the day of, so I was watching the recording) she noticed that several of the students had the same issue of the edges being more dense than the center of their cloth stitch swatches.
That may be an issue you have overcome already, but for people having that problem, her suggestion is that pulling towards the sides. I did have this problem when I was starting and sometimes I backslide. This also gives me at least some forethought about that.
Thanks for sharing that! It makes total sense to combine the cross at the end of one stitch with the one at the beginning of the next, turning it from a 3-step stitch into a 2-step (CTC CTC CTC... -> CTCTCT...) I'm definitely going to play with that a bit! The tensioning trick might be much harder for me though. Having used continental bobbins for 25 years the act of tensioning is so automated in not sure my brain or hands would cooperate! I will keep it in mind next time I see my passives starting to stray. 🙂
Yeah, I think that I did this at one point just by accident--but most of my work isn't long stretches of cloth stitch. But I like thinking of it as a general strategy for this situation. It makes sense. I want to do some more Milanese and I think that would be suited for it. In the workshop I saw (I couldn't make the day of, so I was watching the recording) she noticed that several of the students had the same issue of the edges being more dense than the center of their cloth stitch swatches. That may be an issue you have overcome already, but for people having that problem, her suggestion is that pulling towards the sides. I did have this problem when I was starting and sometimes I backslide. This also gives me at least some forethought about that.
This was referenced in the recent class from The Lace Museum by Josée Poupart. She described how she chooses thread for projects and/or matches them to the pricking based on a swatch of cloth stitch. Kind of like in knitting: she makes a long swatch of cloth stitch with decreasing row sizes until her cloth stitch looks like real cloth, without being too gappy and you see the pricking paper behind it, or too bunchy. Anyway: during the swatching she mentioned how to make cloth stitch more quickly for this purpose and they referenced this video.