Comments on: Stitch Gauge and Hands http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2009/01/29/stitch-gauge-and-hands/ The blog for Plimoth Plantation's 17 Century embroidered jacket project. Tue, 15 Dec 2009 02:44:23 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: pam http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2009/01/29/stitch-gauge-and-hands/comment-page-1/#comment-2527 pam Sun, 01 Feb 2009 06:35:11 +0000 http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/?p=1441#comment-2527 I just found this blog today and have spent the past few hours perusing many of the posts. You have inspired me, and I look forward to reading more about the progress of the jacket. ~Pam http://www.lefthandedstitcher.com/blog I just found this blog today and have spent the past few hours perusing many of the posts. You have inspired me, and I look forward to reading more about the progress of the jacket.

~Pam
http://www.lefthandedstitcher.com/blog

]]> By: Jane/Chilly Hollow http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2009/01/29/stitch-gauge-and-hands/comment-page-1/#comment-2526 Jane/Chilly Hollow Fri, 30 Jan 2009 00:38:04 +0000 http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/?p=1441#comment-2526 (Jane whaps Tricia over the head with a skein of yarn.) Honey, stitching partnerships must often become like marriages or very close friendships. You talk as you stitch, you know. Breaking up the partnership is like a divorce. Think about it. Jane/Chilly Hollow (Jane whaps Tricia over the head with a skein of yarn.)

Honey, stitching partnerships must often become like marriages or very close friendships. You talk as you stitch, you know. Breaking up the partnership is like a divorce. Think about it.

Jane/Chilly Hollow

]]> By: Megan/Elmsley Rose http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2009/01/29/stitch-gauge-and-hands/comment-page-1/#comment-2525 Megan/Elmsley Rose Thu, 29 Jan 2009 23:28:32 +0000 http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/?p=1441#comment-2525 That's interesting. I started detached buttonhole work half way through last year, and I'm finding that I'm loosening tension as I become more experienced. My first attempts completely covered the ground. Now I'm leaving a bit of space, so the individual 'stitch' can be seen more readily. That’s interesting. I started detached buttonhole work half way through last year, and I’m finding that I’m loosening tension as I become more experienced. My first attempts completely covered the ground. Now I’m leaving a bit of space, so the individual ’stitch’ can be seen more readily.

]]> By: Colleen http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/2009/01/29/stitch-gauge-and-hands/comment-page-1/#comment-2523 Colleen Thu, 29 Jan 2009 22:27:40 +0000 http://www.plimoth.org/embroidery-blog/?p=1441#comment-2523 Quilters often say not to worry about length of stitches...they get shorter as you get better, and use a smaller needle. I was always told to just concentrate on evenness. Fife players are told to just work on playing the notes accurately and breathing properly. Improved tone comes all by itself through practice. This embroidery graph seems to me to match these two other curves neatly! Quilters often say not to worry about length of stitches…they get shorter as you get better, and use a smaller needle. I was always told to just concentrate on evenness.

Fife players are told to just work on playing the notes accurately and breathing properly. Improved tone comes all by itself through practice.

This embroidery graph seems to me to match these two other curves neatly!

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