Teaching my daughter to cross-stitch
Joi Ramey
cross-stitch. This is so touching, because I was ten or eleven when I
first began to learn needlework.
What I find amazing, is that she doesn't quite get how to anchor her
thread, or how to thread more than one strand of floss into the
needle, but she can see the placement of the pattern onto the material
so easily, something I have trouble with. I can see many companionable
days of stitching ahead...
Gspring142
I, too, am teaching my daughter who is 7. She is picking up on it very
quickly. I start her off in the right place and she takes it from there. I
love not having to watch as she makes each stitch, so I work next to her on my
own.
Greta
Fabrics2U
In article <19981207081422...@ng58.aol.com>, gspri...@aol.com
(Gspring142) writes:
>I, too, am teaching my daughter who is 7. She is picking up on it very
>quickly. I start her off in the right place and she takes it from there. I
>love not having to watch as she makes each stitch, so I work next to her on
>my
>own.
What patterns are you using? My DD is interested, but she just hasn't gotten
the hang of it - and I think I need a simpler pattern. She is six. She can't
seem to make consistant x's, though. She starts out with an x, but gradually
she is doing straight lines.
Kim
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ewm
>
>
> What patterns are you using? My DD is interested, but she just hasn't gotten
> the hang of it - and I think I need a simpler pattern. She is six. She can't
> seem to make consistant x's, though. She starts out with an x, but gradually
> she is doing straight lines.
> Kim
>
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I wonder whether she would find it easier to stay on the diagonal using
plastic canvas? The grid pattern is much more obvious than on cloth.
Emily M.
Fabrics2U
>I wonder whether she would find it easier to stay on the diagonal using
>plastic canvas? The grid pattern is much more obvious than on cloth.
>
>
We have tried that and it does help... She still ends up going straight across
after about 10 stitches though.... She's left handed - wonder if that has
anything to do with it?
ewm
>
> In article <366BFD...@ix.netcom.com>, ewm <em...@ix.netcom.com> writes:
>
> >I wonder whether she would find it easier to stay on the diagonal using
> >plastic canvas? The grid pattern is much more obvious than on cloth.
> >>
> We have tried that and it does help... She still ends up going straight across
> after about 10 stitches though.... She's left handed - wonder if that has
> anything to do with it?
> Kim
Probably. Have you tried starting her from the opposite corner and
having her work "backwards"?
My second son was ambidextrous as a preschooler. If he picked up the
pencil with his left hand, he did perfect mirror writing. In first
grade, he somehow got started using his right hand for writing --
probably by watching what the other kids did, since no one ever tried to
get him to change over.
Emily M.
Marny F
apron with red cross stitches making a design on the ties and the
front was done in elementary school, I thought mine was the worse
one ... and remember to this day the Joy felt when mine was chosen
to be on the bulletin board in the hall so everyone could see it!!!
It was also fun to wear it as part of my costume in the off-Broadway
show I did back in '95.
What a nice gift to give your daughter... my mom thought any kind of
stitching, needlework, etc. was a waste of time and money. It's
good that I learned differently! <gg>
Gentle stitching as you go,
Marny
Joi Ramey wrote in message
<3672c8a0....@news.cha.bellsouth.net>...
>My daughter, who is ten now, is letting me teach her how to
>cross-stitch. This is so touching, because I was ten or eleven when
I
>first began to learn needlework ...
Joi Ramey
>
>In article <19981207081422...@ng58.aol.com>, gspri...@aol.com
>(Gspring142) writes:
>
>>I, too, am teaching my daughter who is 7. She is picking up on it very
>>quickly. I start her off in the right place and she takes it from there. I
>>love not having to watch as she makes each stitch, so I work next to her on
>>my
>>own.
>
>What patterns are you using? My DD is interested, but she just hasn't gotten
>the hang of it - and I think I need a simpler pattern. She is six. She can't
>seem to make consistant x's, though. She starts out with an x, but gradually
>she is doing straight lines.
>Kim
We're using a Celtic knotwork pattern, which is very simple. I also
enlarged it by copying it on a piece of graph paper, so she could keep
track of what she's doing using a highlighter.
Six is a little young. My daughter has been 'practicing' since she was
about six or seven, but lacked the fine motor skills and coordination
to produce consistent cross stitches until just recently. At six, we
worked on backstitches and outlining. She became very good at that,
could even produce simple designs from her imagination. You might work
on something that requires less small muscle control until she's a
little older.
Fabrics2U
In article <366e21b9...@news.cha.bellsouth.net>, bill...@bellsouth.net
(Joi Ramey) writes:
> At six, we
>worked on backstitches and outlining. She became very good at that,
>could even produce simple designs from her imagination. You might work
>on something that requires less small muscle control until she's a
>little older.
Thanks - we'll give that a try.
Gspring142
>What patterns are you using? My DD is interested, but she just hasn't gotten
>the hang of it - and I think I need a simpler pattern. She is six. She can't
>seem to make consistant x's, though. She starts out with an x, but gradually
>she is doing straight lines.
>Kim
>
stitches going in the same direction. Then we did stamped XS, so if the blue
showed, she had to do better. Now she's doing great. I've purchased little
kits from Big Lots, Walmart and out local craft store. I could probably make
her some from my stash, and will sometime, but I don't think to do it. Good
luck!
Greta
John & Liz Hampton
Joi Ramey wrote:
> On 07 Dec 1998 13:55:20 GMT, fabr...@aol.com (Fabrics2U) wrote:
>
> >
> >In article <19981207081422...@ng58.aol.com>, gspri...@aol.com
> >(Gspring142) writes:
> >
> >>I, too, am teaching my daughter who is 7. She is picking up on it very
> >>quickly. I start her off in the right place and she takes it from there. I
> >>love not having to watch as she makes each stitch, so I work next to her on
> >>my
> >>own.
> >
> >What patterns are you using? My DD is interested, but she just hasn't gotten
> >the hang of it - and I think I need a simpler pattern. She is six. She can't
> >seem to make consistant x's, though. She starts out with an x, but gradually
> >she is doing straight lines.
> >Kim
>
> We're using a Celtic knotwork pattern, which is very simple. I also
> enlarged it by copying it on a piece of graph paper, so she could keep
> track of what she's doing using a highlighter.
> snip
When my "not quite 7" year old nephew was here in March, I had him do (for
example) 10 slanty lines across, and then 10 more slanty lines back, to make the
Xs. After while, he had a pretty good grasp on what he was supposed to be
doing. That might be easier than trying to do the entire X at one time. The
number of slanty lines across & back gave me time to help the other two, or to
get in a few stitches of my own.
Liz from Humbug
Julia Bobb
will be 9 in April and the other one just turned 7 last
month. Both started in June. My oldest has <had> a high
reading level <it has dropped since his epilepsy developed
and he started medication>. The second son is really good
with hand-eye coordination and differentiating between
symbols. I bought them each a simple kit from Little Folks
(Easy Street). The kits were on 6ct with 6 strands of floss.
Both kits had about 5 colors. It was really simple....no
back stitching for them. It took them about 4 months to
finish them. Granted, I have to show them how to start and
end their threads, as well as help with color changes. They
are now "graduated" to 11ct fabric with 3 strands of floss
and about 8 colors. These new projects even have some back
stitching!
I feel that children need to take their own pace at learning
to stitch. My dd is 4 <turns 5 in a month> and she is
content to "stitch" on scrap fabric and with spare floss.
She does basic lines. I don't stress her learning a cross
stitch until she can read a pattern.
I do enjoy stitching with my kids.
jb
whose daughter loving askes: "Momma, can I crotch-stitch
with you now? I do a pretty job, see????"
Joi Ramey wrote:
>
> My daughter, who is ten now, is letting me teach her how to
> cross-stitch. This is so touching, because I was ten or eleven when I
Hr41
>on something that requires less small muscle control until she's a
>little older.
Have you thought about one of the "quickpoint" canvases that some needlepoint
shops carry? The only problem may be that when my daughters discovered
needlepoint on painted canvases they lost interest in charted cross stitch.
It's really expensive to get the three of us in the shops together these days!
One of the highlights was when my local shop staff talked to my older daughter
about changing to basketweave to help eliminate distortion in her canvases and
she picked it up after a five minute mini lesson. Sandy looked at me and said
"You know we have women who come in here and can't do this after a three
session class." I have trouble imagining having that much difficulty learning
it, but that's the way I am with knitting, so to each their own. Meanwhile, I
was very proud of my daughter!
We also deal with the fact that I am very left handed and they are both right
handed so it gets interesting sometimes!
Atbat3
5 yr old is doing the basic straight line stitching but really loves adding
beads to her needlework. I tried not to stress too much the first time a few
(more like a hundred) beads ended up on the carpet. Now, I slip knot the
thread on the eye of her needle so that she's not asking me twenty times to
rethread it, and I only give her twenty beads at a time to play with. Makes
stitching fun for both child and Mom =)
Casey
MJB5019
neadle once! Mj
Mj in southern California
mar...@infinet-is.com
as nice. Michael's and other similar stores only seem to carry some very
rudimentary kits that use yarn rather than embroidery cotton. The other thing
that I like about these kits is that the stretcher becomes a frame and it goes
from stitching to wall with little fuss.
Camille
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Diane Bassett
I just took a class in how to paint your own needlepoint canvases, and
I'm really looking forward to doing LOTS of this. I unknowingly chose a
rather challenging design for my first try, because I chose a large
Easter egg kind of thing (it was taken from a Pysansky design, which is
a Ukrainian form of egg decoration that is simply gorgeous).
I'd love to hear from those of you who paint your own canvases to get
some ideas. Here's one: over Christmas, I traced around the hands of
my family members, and will combine these "hands" into a design. It's
ultimately going to be a gift for my newly adopted (from Ukraine) little
niece. Her hands are really little :-)
We used acrylic paint on mono canvas in the class.
Diane
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m&v
local needlework shop? I wonder if any of my locals give classes like
that. Hmmm. I'm signed up to start University in January for Art
classes in hopes I will learn to design canvas.
victoria
On Mon, 28 Dec 1998 01:39:44 -0600, Diane Bassett
<homeal...@earthlink.net> wrote:
~Dear stitching friends,
~
~I just took a class in how to paint your own needlepoint canvases,
and
~I'm really looking forward to doing LOTS of this. I unknowingly
chose a
~rather challenging design for my first try, because I chose a large
~Easter egg kind of thing (it was taken from a Pysansky design, which
is
~a Ukrainian form of egg decoration that is simply gorgeous).
~
~I'd love to hear from those of you who paint your own canvases to get
~some ideas. Here's one: over Christmas, I traced around the hands
of
~my family members, and will combine these "hands" into a design.
It's
~ultimately going to be a gift for my newly adopted (from Ukraine)
little
~niece. Her hands are really little :-)
~
~We used acrylic paint on mono canvas in the class.
~
~Diane
Steve Reid
A couple of years ago, I started embroidery. In my city, I could only
find TWO patterns (I wanted to do pictures, not designs on the end of
napkins). So, after learning how to thread a needle, I started creating
my own pictures. So far, I have been keeping things simple - lifelike
birds and cartoon characters(the cartoons aren't lifelike, of course,
but they certainly resemble the real cartoons). The satisfaction I feel
from sdeeing these totally original creations come to life in thread is
almost beyond words. Now I hear that others are doing similar things
... it's almost like I found a long-lost relative. GO FOR IT!
Steve Reid
nbp...@nbnet.nb.ca
PDS-BDS
Yes indeed! Everyone should try their own!I have never done a kit or
someone else's chart. I was trained from the very beginning to
design,chart,create. It takes so much of your life and time that to
have things in the end that you have invested in from your own brain is
the way to go for sure! barbara