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How To Embroider The Cross Stitch For Beginners
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The embroidered cross stitch will create a bunch of small x’s. Let’s check out the best way to do this!
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Start by drawing two guidelines with an embroidery marker or pencil. These lines determine the width of your stitch.
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Knot the end of your embroidery floss, or follow my previous tutorial for starting embroidery without a knot.
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Come up through the back of the fabric at the start of your bottom guideline.
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Make one stitch diagonally forward, going back through the fabric at the top guideline.
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Come up from the back on the bottom guideline, directly under where you previous stitch ended.
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Continue creating diagonal stitches, trying to keep stitch length even.
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Repeat until you’ve completed a full row.
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Come up from the back, directly under your last stitch.
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Stitch diagonally backwards, meeting at the top of the previous stitch.
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Continue this process creating little x’s, called cross stitches.
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Keep going until you’ve crossed the full row!
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End by weaving the floss through the last few stitches in the back and cut excess.
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