Floss Tube 8: How I Setup and Start Large Cross Stitch Projects 

You are just DELIGHTFUL. Thank you so much for this video, it is so helpful!

After watching this video, I am slightly less terrified to try a large project, lol. I really like your ideas for organization.

What a beautiful canvas. It looks just like a photo. Thank you for sharing.

These videos can really help me. I am not into full coverage pictures but am now working on a project I started many years ago but recently got it out and the fact that it is about the nativity is a good reason I got it out now. The center square is the largest depicting the Savior’s birth in the stable and using the abc alphabet,each picture all around this center stitch of Mary,Joseph and the manger is where I began because it seemed the most time consuming and all around it the alphabet depicts a picture of the nativity and how beautiful the alphabet is at telling the whole story. I got it out again and am making good progress,but I absolutely cannot stand any interruption so I usually use time when I am alone. I will be g.lad to finish it,but not sure that will happen in 1 month,or ten months or a few years but the best thing to do is enjoy the experience the hobby of cross stitch and the pride one may feel of achieving a goal.

I love your T-shirts!! And too bad we have to sleep too! I do not get tired when cross stitching, I could keep going all night long---and I have until 4 am on a few occasions!

Thank you for this video. It shows me what I need to do. I think your tips will help with all cross stitch patterns, not just full coverage. Have a terrific week.

Oh gosh. Thank you so much! I haven't cross-stitched since I was a pre-teen and now I'm in my thirties. I needed some good advice and received it in this video. I bought a pattern that is incredibly large and daunting. Can't go back on it now! One stitch at a time I guess.

I use the organizer boxes and use a piece of printer paper and section it off like the boxes. I use a pencil to write in the numbers and tape it into the lid of my container.

Just starting a large project and found the small hoop idea very helpful! Thanks

Hi from Australia! I love cross stitch, but have been stalled on a large project for a couple of years (other hobbies - gaming and reading - distracted me), but watching you has motivated me to at least get that project finished and given to its intended recipient. You've not only motivated me, but after watching only eight videos you've already taught me new things, like not to tape the edges and to mark the fabric to make counting easier (another reason I'm stalled on that major project is that I made a huge mistake with the counting and a whole chunk is over by a couple of stitches which has left me having to make up the border pattern on my own because otherwise it won't match up properly). I really like your attitude and easy way of communicating with us (I tried a few different cross stitching channels before I came across yours and I just didn't mesh with anyone else the way I did with you) and I'm looking forward to binge-watching your videos from the beginning over the next few days. Thank you for what you do and have a great day stitching, Sarah.

I do the same and I also go to the print shop and have my patterns blown up. So good to see the pattern with ease.

Thanks for a great video! Working on my first HAED and always appreciate tips from fellow stitchers. I have had back surgery and have two discs in cervical spine giving me trouble, so I totally get what you have to share regarding bending forward, etc.. You have some beautiful projects there! Kevin

I've been cross-stitching since 7 this morning and I'm having a bit of a rest now because my head is banging

Other then the stitching bag I organize exactly like you 😀 I put my project in a large plastic box

This video was so helpful. I'm starting the biggest project I've ever attempted and this really helped. Thank u.

If you have a DMC Color Card and arrange your floss in the order shown on the card- not only do you have a swatch card but you have a handy need to your storage! Much like an old type card catalog- handy tool!

Like your new patterns of cross stitch and the big ones that you do.

I just found your channel. Thank you for the tips! Love the Chicago Bears in the background. I am a Bears fan living in Dallas Cowboys country!!

This was so helpful to me! I basically just followed all your advice step by step. Thank you!

good luck with your project. I like the design, its going to be pretty when you get it finished.

Enjoyed your boat pictures. Looking forward to your stash you bought. Also your progress on projectors

I love your video!! I am the same way on my cross stitch. 1 page at a time and I myself rather use a small hoop than those big ones!! I'm a one hand stitcher too. Thank you for the other great ideas!!!!!

Thank you for this video. I just had neck surgery also and find it hard to Stitch with a stand or hold a large scroll frame. You and I stitch the same. I am just starting my first full coverage 3' x 2' and your video helped tons.

Great video with very helpful information! Thank you!

I'm definitely a slow cross stitcher. It takes me all day just to do 3 of the small grid squares

I have been stitching more in hand this past year. I am right handed so I roll up the left side of fabric to the point of where I want to stitch. So far it’s working well. If I use a hoop, I prefer wooden because I feel that it holds the fabric better than the plastic. I also only use the smaller hoops so I’m closer to my stitching. I have a bad neck too. Told it’s arthritis do to years of bending over to care for patients. Ugh. I will have to try leaning back when I get the chance to see if that helps. Thank you for your video.

Very useful video, thank you!

Hi Jules. I started using Q-snaps but not sure if I like them. I never used hoops either. I usually roll up the one side of the cloth and stitch freehand. I'm liking the grid marks. Thanks for showing how to start a project.

Thanks for sharing.

Thanks for the helpful tips

Loving the pink hoops! I'm new to your channel and I've just subscribed : )

Hi Jules. Love watching ur videos. Glad I watched this as I’m about to embark on my very first Heaven n Earth design. I am gonna prepare like u have. I am totally nervous but I’m starting with a mini HAED. Just wish we could get them project bags in England they look awesome. Love your work. X

Fellow Coloradian and cross stitcher! 🙋

Good tips

There are snap frames made out of like pvc pipes. I love it. The round frames aggravate me lol I’m brand new to cross stitching.

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I use plastic hoops too. I've tried everything else but it doesn't work for me. On my large ones, I'll still use a 8 or 10 inch hoop but I've found a stand that works for me and my plastic hoops so I can two hand stitch. Not sure if it makes it any faster or not but holding the hoop less helps my shoulder.

Love your tips thank you! Where do you buy your Aida from?

Can you share where you found your awesome t-shirt? Love it!!

This was very helpful: thank you! I am starting my first large cross stitch and was wondering how you backstitch on such a large area? Do you stitch everything first and then backstitch, or do you stitch a page, backstitch that page completely, and then move on to another page?

Thank you so much. I just started a huge project and was struggling using a frame. Now I’m ready to go back to my hoop. I understand what to do with the fabric at the bottom but what do you do me with the extra fabric at the side?

Thanks for the great ideas. My project has many color threads combined. Do you combine all your thread colors before you start your project or do you do that as you go along? Any suggestions? Thanks

Hi I find it easier to stitch from left to right instead of starting in middle. Its a good idea to mark your fabric but how do i do that and also what with. Thank you for your help

I just downloaded my first cross stitch pattern, but am slightly confused. Can someone tell me how you start it? Use to start in the middle and work my way out to the sides. But since there are about 8 pages to this pattern, do you start in the upper corner of your fabrid and stitch each page as it is layed out in the pdf file? Any help would be much appreciated.

I'm trying to find a way to keep the material rolled,folded or something . I'm talking the material outside and below the hoop..any ideas!? I use a hoop and like u have tried the frames etc...I just can't. I like the hoop,I feel I have more control and can see better,plus I have many back issues so I need to lie back to stitch...anyway I'd really like any ideas on what to do with that material. (I'm going to start a large 25x36 piece..so lots of material )

Thank you for such an informative video. I use hoops on Aida, but when I took it off it left a ridge in the fabric. How have you been able to over come the ridges because I really like using the hoops? Thank you

when using a hoop, how do you deal with the circle lines?

Hi! I am on page 8 of a 21 page full coverage (my first one), and I'm struggling with the best way to hold it (currently using the qsnap frame). Another struggle I'm having is what to do with the extra aida. Any advice you might have would be very much appreciated! Thank you for your videos!

any advice for changing needle/floss? I have a huge pattern I want to start but I'm afraid of wasting floss when I have to change colors.

Hi Jules, I'm new to large projects and just wondering...is it ok for the other stitches to be under a hoop? Or do they get crushed? Also, how do you get rid of the hoop marks without crunching the stitches?

How do I know what size Aida to get?