Meredith Willet of M's Canvashouse, The Meredith Collection, and much more, demonstrates how to glue rhinestones to your needlepoint canvas in this interesting video on Facebook.
For those without a Facebook account, I'll summarize Meredith's tips.
First, glue doesn't stick well to needlepoint canvas so stitch the area you will add the rhinestone to first. The color and thread type don't matter, just tent stitch the spot so the glue can stick well to the thread.
Meredith uses a small tube of E-6000 glue which dries out really fast once you open it. She also puts a paper napkin or something on the canvas where she plans to put the rhinestone to protect the stringy glue from getting elsewhere.
Use a paper plate. Put your rhinestones on one part of the paper plate, and a dab of glue on another part. Using tweezers, pick up your rhinestone, get glue on the back, and then put the rhinestone down on your canvas where you want it. Tap into place with the tweezers.
Repeat. The glue will dry on the paper plate really fast so only use a little bit at a time and add more as needed elsewhere on the paper plate.
Don't worry if you get some glue on the top of the flat-back rhinestone. When it dries you can scratch it right off. If a bit of glue squishes out from behind the rhinestone, leave it alone. When it dries, you can pull it out with your tweezers.
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