This video covers 3 different ways of threading your needle, and tacking down the thread to start sewing. 0:00 - Traditional start 1:55 - Loop start 3:27 - Beginner's reverse loop start
This a great video for a beginner. I'm a 39 year old man looking to learn how to cross stitch and needed to see the very basics this helped a lot you have a nice voice too
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Thank you so much for actually showing and saying what to do with the needle. Other videos just say thread it and I’m like but how? Like a sewing needle where it’s doubled over and knotted? The third method was exactly what I needed to find 💖
I like this video. Thank you for showing the different ways to thread the needle. I am a beginner and this was a the only video that you showed how to for a visual person. I liked the step by step as well.
Love this!! I started to cross stitch with esters at a d used two strands but doubled and the t came out so ugly and lumpy!! Hahahah today I will fix the problem! Tfs this great info for beginners
Great video and easy to understand. I'm still trying to learn how to not look at the back all of the time to find where I need to put my needle. Any suggestions?
It's all just about practice; if you are in the habit of turning it every time, that feels easier (although it was always hard on my wrist after a long session). You just have to force yourself to only look at the front for a while until it gets more comfortable; it will take a little longer at first. Instead of trying to poke your needle up through a hole immediately, just lightly drag the point of your needle across the back until you see it either peek through a hole, or you see the bulge where the needle is through the fabric. Then once you know where the needle is on the back side of the fabric, you can start to try to poke it up through the correct hole. I think that's basically my process every time, drag the needle to find my place, then come up through the hole. Once you get used to where you're stitching, you can get those extra steps down to happen almost instantaneously so it will actually be faster than flipping. Good luck!
Yes; if I'm stitching on 16 count or higher I like to use 2 strands. For 14 count I sometimes use 3 strands, depends what look I want (more defined X's, or more coverage).
I've tried the first two methods but for the life of me i cant work it out. You said thread the needle and leave a few inches then start your stitch... but then its not attached to the needle (the couple inches threaded) and comes of ??? :/ :/ what am i missing??
Yes, the needle won't be attached to the thread in those methods. Once you push the needle through the fabric, pinch the thread (both the short tail and the long part) with your thumb and fingers just behind the eye of the needle to pull the length of thread through. This way you are holding both ends of the thread together so it doesn't slip off the needle as you pull. Sorry I didn't show that part more clearly! At 1:04 for example you can see me (quickly) move my thumb to the back of the eye to pinch the thread. I'll try to add another short video showing this in more detail. Hope that helps!
ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-KexE57ALrCE.html is the new video showing how I keep the needle on the thread. Sorry it took so long to post!
Are there any pros/cons to the different methods? Personally I'm using the beginner reverse loop, because I like being able to let the needle dangle, but I don't know if I'm missing out on something or making it harder by doing this.
Fundamentally, no; they all work the same in the end, so it's really up to what feels best to you. The first way is the "traditionally correct" way; so maybe if you were entering the piece in a competition where they were judging the back, they might like that. But honestly, loop-start looks even cleaner on the back as long as you're using an even number of strands. So that's why I prefer that method; it's fast, can't slip/come loose from the fabric, and looks cleanest on the back. The reverse loop is completely fine; I just eventually got tired of having to cut my needle free and tacking down both ends, so once I got comfortable holding the loose ends of the thread, I switched to the other methods. Whatever you enjoy is just fine!
I would thread the needle the same way as the first one in this video. You won't have the thread secured to the needle, just hold the portion coming out of the needle as you pull it through the fabric so it doesn't slip out of the eye of the needle. If you mean securing it to the fabric, that is trickier with backstitching. Just leave a long enough tail to tack it down under your first several stitches and don't pull it tight until you have several stitches covering it.
I personally don't, but I make sure my thread isn't twisting as I work. It naturally "railroads" itself pretty well if you are anal enough about your thread staying untwisted, haha. If you make a stitch that looks rolled instead of flat, you can loosen it back up and untwist it or just use your needle to help the strands lay flat, if you don't want to use a separate laying tool.
Rebecca the blue wolf Fabian Are you talking about the needlepoint basketweave stitch? There are other tutorials for that, like this one: ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-VFJv00dDZVY.html
I'm having a hard time understanding the simplest cross stitch guide. I don't get the threading. Why can't one do it like how you do in embroidery? It's not clicking for me.
@@GameCrafts threading the needle. sorry, i understand now that i did my first kit. i didnt understand why i had to leave some thread out of the needle and only knot it at the end. in my first embroidery kit i would knot both ends together. but not in my cross stitch kit
