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Originally Posted by Hitch
Rumple, old girl, I'm not a crafty thing (ha!) but that really is gorgeous. Good on you. :-)
Hitch
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Thank you. I just follow the pattern, so all kudos goes to the designer of the pattern.
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Originally Posted by badgoodDeb
Gorgeous!
Oddly, I never heard of gridding the fabric! I learned pre internet. Was it you, or my niece, who grids by adding a red nylon (fishing) line every 5, rather than drawing them in? Either would be better than I always did!
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I use red (or blue) fishing line to grid 10 x 10 squares. An added bonus to gridding is that you can see if the fabric is big enough. I prefer a generous amount of excess fabric, it just makes it easier to move on the frame/hoop, and with kits they're often stingy on the fabric, so I'll get my own. Depending on how much gridding I need to do for a new project I might use a fabric pen (that fades in sunlight/water) to place dots on the corner of each 10 x 10 square. That makes gridding easier.
I've also used pre-grided Easy Count Aida, but I found that when hand washing it it needs boiling water to get the lines to dissolve.