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THDay 19: Stitching Sequence
When strategizing how to stitch your needlepoint canvas, it’s helpful to keep a couple things in mind: (1) the tonal range of colors on the canvas and (2) where you’ll be able to anchor your thread.
Generally, we recommend stitching the lightest colors first, then the midtones, then the darkest colors. This is for two reasons. First, the threads fuzz a bit as you’re stitching them, and the fuzz of the darker colors can get caught in the lighter colors if you stitch the darker colors first, so if you stitch red first and then stitch white right next to it, the white might appear pink in places that the red fuzz got caught in the white stitches. Second, if you need to jump across the back of the canvas (a top we’ll cover tomorrow!), if you stitch the dark areas first and jump behind lighter areas, the lines of those jumps can create shadows in the lighter areas.
Sometimes you can’t stitch lightest to darkest, however, because the lightest colors are in very small areas that don’t provide enough coverage to anchor your thread. A common example is night sky scenes with snow or stars. The individual stitches of the snow or stars don’t provide enough coverage to secure the light thread under those stitches, so you’d need to stitch the night sky first, and then anchor your light thread in the night sky to begin stitching.
See you tomorrow for Day 20!
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