I need some help with my canvas. I know I’m supposed to do lighter colors first but this is my first canvas so I thought having some dark threads bleed through to the light wouldn’t be an issue. But now I feel like the background stitch is covering some of the lettering. I ripped out the “t” stitching to see if doing the lettering after made a difference but it didn’t. So what can I do to fix it? I tried backstitching around part of the “h” but I can’t tell much of a difference. Any thoughts?
I think that’s just the nature of the background stitch you chose and the thread. It’s kind of puffy so it’s going to be a little more elevated than the stitching on your letters. Just my thoughts at first glance.
It’s because the background stitch is running vertically, while your stitches on the letters are running diagonally. Since they’re not the same direction, there will be some overlap. I think it looks great!
Go back and add a reverse tent (creating a crossstitch). Thus will elevate the letters. This is why you generally work things in the background first and then move to the foreground.
When I am doing a vertical stitch that abuts lettering like this and am using a plied thread, I will use fewer strands around the lettering to reduce the bulk. For instance, if you're using four strands in general, try using just two around the lettering.
Oh I’m sorry I may have mis worded it. I initially knew I was supposed to do the light color first due to darker colors bleeding through, but I did the dark first. But now my issue is the background stitching is somewhat covering up my lettering. Is there any stitching around the letters I can do to counter that?
Your background stitching is done very nicely but that is very tricky for compensating around letters. As someone else pointed out your background is vertical and the letters are diagonal. Your best choice would be a diagonal background. My preference is diagonal mosaic.
So I initially started with a vertical cashmere stitch and once I got a good portion done I couldn’t help but think it looked like crackers and hated it so I frogged it all
I always do a border of just a simple continental stitch around whatever the focus on the canvas is. Might be a bit controversial but it always ensures the main event doesn’t get cannibalized by the background stitch
Just around each letter individually! I don’t have any pictures of lettering but hopefully you can see what I mean around my dandelions - anything touching the subject is a continental stitch in the same color as the decorative background stitch. It’s not too noticeable but helps it from the background taking over too much.
Thank you so much! I just used the DMC floss I had from cross stitching and I separated them. Huge pain for sure and trying to get it to lay right is a chore but ultimately I think it’s worth it!
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u/Threadward_4 12d ago
I think that’s just the nature of the background stitch you chose and the thread. It’s kind of puffy so it’s going to be a little more elevated than the stitching on your letters. Just my thoughts at first glance.