Autumn Leaves Plan of Attack

When planning how to stitch a piece entirely in tent stitches, usually you are told to start in either one corner or the middle. Personally, I think where you start depends on the actual design and the size of the piece and whether you are using scroll frames. Some patterns have big areas in the center; in that case I might stitch those first. Other designs, especially if you are doing the piece all in basketweave, work up well if you start in a corner and work diagonally to the opposite corner. If you use a scroll frame, you will probably also work this way since you need to stitch down a ways from the top, stop and roll the stitched area around the scroll frame at the top and unroll the unstitched canvas at the bottom to expose more area to work.

For Autumn Leaves we are going to try both ways of stitching. I’ll do the small brown leaf in the center and also start in one corner. We’ll compare the two plans of attack this way. But before we start, we need to talk about the tent stitches we can choose from.

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