Flosstube Extra : Tent Stitch 

Oh my gosh, thank you! I'm so glad you found it helpful. 🥰🤍🥰

I have figured out a good approach to clearly show how I approach tent stitching within a piece. So now a video can be made!

@@thebrowneyedstitcher that's great news 😁 looking forward to it. Have a great weekend!

Oh my gosh, thank you!! I really wanted to make it as easy as I could to help others get to know tent stitching. 🤍

Hahahahah! Girl, you can stitch however you want to!! My desire was to provide stitchers with information in order to get started and troubleshoot along the way. Now you'll have to make informed decisions. Muahahaha!!! 🤣

@@thebrowneyedstitcher 🤣😂🤣. And informed I have become! And I am here for it! You have taken some of the mystery out of it and I bet thos will give a lot of people the courage to just give it a go! 💙

Thank you, my friend!

You're welcome!!

You're welcome! 🤍

You're welcome!!! I'm so glad it was helpful. 🤍🤍🤍

I'm really glad to hear that! Thank you! 🤍

I'm glad it was understandable! 🤍

@@thebrowneyedstitcher I use a mixture of half stitch and continental. My stitch goes / and when I stitch ➡️ I go bottom left to top right. When I go back ⬅️I still do bottom left to top right

I hope it goes smoothly for you!

I did start a full coverage piece on camera. It's my Stitch With Me on Neuschwanstein Castle on Feb 24. That may help on how I start a piece in general.

I hope this video gives some guidance as you try it out!

It's totally worth a try!! It's not for everyone but you don't always know until you try. 🤍

I don't experience warping either. There's a lot of factors why! You can totally do basketweave! Give it a try on one of your existing pieces and then you'll have another resource to throw in with your half and continental!

I'm so glad you found it useful!

I stitch in hand too! Except for my supersize. Tension plays so big of a role, doesn't it! I will use basketweave anytime possible. All I need are two diagonal stitches! It provides the benefits no matter how few stitches in one color may be in an area. It wouldn't hurt to give it a try to see how you might include it in your stitching! Seeing how basketweave works in application is the hardest to visualize because of all the color changes our beautiful charts ask for!

Confetti areas are "breathe and make it through" 😅 What I do is basketweave whenever possible and continental when not and do my best otherwise.

Oh, I don't really stitch back and forth like I showed in the demonstration. 😆😆😆 And knowing which direction you're heading doesn't really matter unless you're parking. The back of your stitching will tell you which one you're doing. It wouldn't be basketweave but either continental or half. I've already been thinking of the clearest way I can demonstration working through a pattern so I think that will be happening sometime.

@@thebrowneyedstitcher 😅 got it! Thanks! 🥰

I am not sure that there is a way to avoid a lumpy back when it comes to confetti and ninjas. Actually, that's not true. Probably the best way would be to do a meticulous stitch by stitch and start and end your threads with waste threads. Does that help? I do have a plan to do a video on approaching max colors and confetti and all that! I don't know when but it's on my list.

Thank you so very much for responding. That does help but I have no idea what the waste method is so I will look that up. Also, I was referring to the stitching on the back becoming so bulky that it causes the front to look lumpy… I am currently working on 28ct and I’m now experimenting on 25 and 20 Ct to see if those same squares where they are actually raised on the front, will do so on those counts. In this process I have discovered that on the 20ct my back stitches are laying flat like the half stitch (first example you did here) but when I switch to the 25 Ct ( I don’t change directions, nothing, I just stitch like I normally do) the back starts to look like corn rows like your continental stitch. No one can tell me what is going on. I use the loop start in both methods. I have a feeling that these rows are way is causing the back to be super thick and the front to get lumpy and tight, even though Im not pulling super hard on the tread at all.

Woah, that's weird that the back looks different from the 20ct to 25ct like that. I'm not very bothered by the front looking bumpy 😅 It doesn't look like it's bumpy when I'm further away so I just let it be.

Unfortunately, I don't have any suggestions. Away threads and waste knots seems to be the best for ending threads on the front with tent stitching but I struggle with those too.

@@thebrowneyedstitcher Thank you anyway. I appreciate the feedback. If I run across anything that works I'll be sure to let you know ;0)

Awesome! An exchange of information. 🤍

@@thebrowneyedstitcher Hey Suki, I finally found a method that is working great for me. It's a loop stitch with a tacking stitch combination. I found it on Karen Buggs channel if you want to go see how it's done here is the link ru-vid.com/video/%D0%B2%D0%B8%D0%B4%D0%B5%D0%BE-rVhhBPxeZ2Y.html go to time stamp 5:40. I've been using it for about a week now and I've had no issues. The only thing I did was modified it for tent stitching.

I'll check it out! Thank you.

I know that some people are very successful with alternating between half cross and Continental! It definitely is a bit of trial and error. I hope you find what works.

😬 I frog as little as possible. 😅

I'm glad it was helpful to you! 🥰 I think that most people have one or two methods they will use in a piece. The path you choose to take with your stitches sometimes means switching to another method. I try and use basketweave wherever possible and continental otherwise. I think the biggest factor that affects the look of the stitching is whether the legs of your stitches are elongated or not.

I can see on your projects how beautiful the coverage is than using X's. Just wanted to thank you for explaining so thoroughly, and for your time. Erma

I have not made one yet!! Because I haven't started a new project in a while. 😂

@@thebrowneyedstitcher I wonder if just with a picture you can explain 😅 let me know

@@megastitches I do have an ooooold live stream where I started a new full coverage piece. It's got Neuschwanstein Castle in the title.

You can basketweave any time there are two stitches of the same color in a direct diagonal so, yes! I look at basketweave on an individual color basis rather than as a block as a whole. Yes, you can park with basketweave. You would mark a parked thread just as you would with any other stitching and parking method. I hope this helps!

Two possible reasons is the coverage allowed fabric to see and the other is the way the light hits the stitches. This second one is particularly possible for that drawn look if your half stitches were the same direction as the bottom leg of your cross. The look isn't a bad thing at all unless you're unhappy with it. 🤍

Thank you very much

Are you switching for something like a fancy lady skin or on a full coverage project? It sounds like a fancy lady skin kind of question but let me know if it's not! For fancy lady skin, I do four 1x1 stitches to make up one 2x2 stitch. Depending on your fabric count or if you have blends would probably change if you did tent or full cross in a situation like that.

Yep! My tent stitch is \ and that is my top leg of my full cross. The only time I do / is when I'm working on a kit that specifies it like Dimensions Woodland Enchantress.

@@thebrowneyedstitcher thank you. That is So helpful. I've never understood which direction to use on patterns. I wasn't sure what the purpose was for the half crosses when used in conjunction with the full cross. We're the half crosses to give the project a certain effect and that is why they needed to go in a different direction? Why add half crosses when all of the other stitches are full crosses? Do you know, Suki?

Using a combination of half cross and full cross gives dimension in a piece while using a limited color palette. It allows background to be further away and less saturated color than the foreground. As far as why those patterns show one way versus another, I don't know the reason if there is one.

@@xstitchinglibrarian I believe that when the half cross goes in the opposite direction of the top leg of your full cross it gives a very different texture to the piece than if it goes the same direction as the top leg, so the light hits it differently and makes areas stand out more, which can be important when trying to get detail in smaller pieces. I know a lot of Ukrainian and Russian designers take advantage of these effects when charting patterns.

@@HeidiVieceli thank you so much. This is very helpful. I was confused bc i have heard that we should always keep our stitches going in the same direction. However, if that was always the case i guess we would not need half stitches 😂. Thank you.

I answered your question in flosstube 34. I hope you saw it! It was easier than typing out what is bound to be a very wordy reply. Please let me know if it answered your question or not!

I haven't tried tent stitch on 14ct but you could try 4 strands and do a test stitch to see if you like it.

Thank you so much

That makes a lot of sense! Thank you.

Needlework as a whole has a wide variety of techniques and terminology to go along with it! Terminology is allowed to change. Petit Point is still terminology used today but in the current culture of cross stitch, that just isn't how we refer to things and I think that is okay.