Mega Man - Elec Man stage - WIP (DONE!)

[SofaraStarfyre]

Cool. I was just curious. I've used both full (X's) and halves (/'s (with 2 threads)) on 14 ct. plastic canvas. Your stitches are very neat and your progress is impressive, and I certainly admire your preserverance in all that blue.

[HerrPersilja]

I've never used halves. Wouldn't you see much of the canvas then?
Thank you However I must admit the sky it's getting a bit tedious and I can't say I always looking forward to stich.
Oh... wait... that's the meaning of perseverance, I guess haha. Finding it a bit tedious, but still doing it.

[SofaraStarfyre]

With half stitches, I've found that the canvas (with 14 ct.) isn't as noticable as you'd think it would be if you use the equivilant of 4 strands (I say equivilant because I use two long strands and thread the needle down to the middle of both). Using the plastic canvas method used when you're doing larger counts like 7 and 10 also helps as well.

[HerrPersilja]

It took a while before I understood what you meant by

two long strands and thread the needle down to the middle of both

.
That way the needle gets "secured" and can't fall of, right? Sometimes the needle falls of for me, but I've never thought I could do something about it.

[SofaraStarfyre]

Here's a pic to illustrate what I mean so you can actually see it... Please excuse the crappiness of it... I whipped it up in GIMP real quick since it's faster than taking a pic with my POS camera...

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[HerrPersilja]

Yeah and the reason to do it is to keep the needle secured on the thread so it can't fall off, right?

[SofaraStarfyre]

Basically yes. It is the way I do my cross stitch that requires 2 strands of floss. I cut my color (provided it's not meant to be blended with another color) into longer stands and rather than use two, I use one folded in half with the needle threaded to the middle. Makes the thread much more secure on the needle. It can be a bit of a pain to unknot when it does happen to do it, but it doesn't do it too often.

[HerrPersilja]

13 weeks...

[SofaraStarfyre]

Looking good Herr!

[HornyPig]

looking great!
How many dark blue threads did you use until now?