Hi, several years ago I watched your diagonal stitching tutorial but still confused on how to choose a point to start with(but that is still a very good tutorial video). Until today I saw this one and it answers all my questions. Thank you very much for making this wonderful video! I'm going to start my first big full coverage work soon and I'm happy having a decision to use the diagonal stitching method in the project. Starting from left bottom and working in rows would be a prefect choose for me. Thank you!!

Thank you for this excellent tutorial. Showing the steps on graph paper first, then fabric stitching was most helpful since I am new to cross stitching.

Thanks for sharing this with us Brian. You have taught me something new.

@blitstitch

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Laurie! I am so glad that you found it worthwhile.

I'm looking at starting my first HAED with the new year and want to try this method. I love how you showed it on paper first. I am such a visual learner; this really helped me understand the exact order and reason for the direction of your stitches. Thank you for taking the time to put this together!

Great video! I've watched a ton of stuff on full coverage trying to figure out what I want to do. This video really hit home for me! Thanks.

@blitstitch

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Mari. I am so glad that you found it helpful.

Thanks for taking the time to do this, Brian!

@blitstitch

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I am glad that you liked it.

Thanks for taking the time to make this video! Most helpful.

@blitstitch

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I am glad that you find it helpful.

Brian, thanks for taking the time to record this and then answer all the comment questions. I found the answers I needed there!

@blitstitch

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Sandy! I am glad that this was able to help you.

Thanks for sharing this. I love how tidy everything looks.

@blitstitch

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Dorie.

Thank you for this video your explanation is so clear and I love the way you draw and then sew it

@blitstitch

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks! I am glad that you found this video helpful!

Great video Brian. Love diagonal stitching.

@blitstitch

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Karen!

Thanks for the lesson. Vintage stitches recommended this.

@blitstitch

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching, Athena! I am glad that you enjoyed this.

This is extremely helpful! Thank you for taking the time to film this!

@blitstitch

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Alyx!

You stitch so beautifully

Like mirror images in quilting, I need to study this to grasp it. May have to watch it a couple more times. TFS.

@blitstitch

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

It is absolutely helpful! I fully grasp your way of working up from the empty space. It's not about you poorly explained before though, don't get me wrong. It's just my language comprehension making me sometimes hardly understand what you guys are talking about. I always look forward for your next video & daily IG posts, Brian. Thank you for taking the time to make this video. Have a good day & happy stitching 😁

@blitstitch

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Nene. I am glad that you found this helpful!

Thank you for this video 😊

Brain this was a great help to me, going to start my first full coverage pc. So I will try this but first I have to watch it several times lol.

@blitstitch

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Yvonne. Good luck with your full coverage piece!

Gracias por el vídeo. Muy bien explicado. Un saludo🌷

@blitstitch

5 жыл бұрын

Gracias, Angeles!

Very useful. Thank you.

@blitstitch

5 жыл бұрын

I am glad that you found it helpful. Thanks for watching!

Very helpful

AWESOME 🙌🙌🙌 Thank you

@blitstitch

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Lynn!

Thank you for sharing more on diagonal stitching. I've been trying different ways on my full coverage piece and am slowly getting comfortable with diagonal stitching. Would you do the same with overdyed floss, across the row/down the column and back, or do you complete each stitch as you go across or down?

@blitstitch

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Teresa! With overdyded floss I would stitch each stitch one at a time. Also, I haven't ever stitched diagonally with overdyed floss because I worry that the diagonal variegation wouldn't look good. So far the designs that I have seen that use overdyeds don't really make sense to stitch diagonally, anyway.

Thank You. I liked you tutorial.

@blitstitch

5 жыл бұрын

I am so glad that you liked it!

Really great video, thank you for the hands on footage

Thanks Brian for the fantastic video. A few more points became clearer. I have my basics down, but have been working my row from the wrong direction. And I have been crossing each stitch as I go, working back and forth on each row. Will this make a difference?

@blitstitch

5 жыл бұрын

I don't think that it will, as long as you make your crosses the same way in each direction. Thanks for watching!

👏🏻🤛🏻Thanks So much!!

@blitstitch

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching!

Thank you Brian for this video. I have been wanting to try this as I want a different method to use when I am doing my HAED and Artecy patterns to avoid page lines. Your work is always so beautiful and I think this would make things a bit more interesting for me. I would start at the top left and work in rows. I was wondering, do you always have the stitch to the left completed or have at least one leg before the stitch to the right or do you just do all the colors across that row and back, even if you have spaces and then move to the next color and so forth? Does that make sense? I always appreciate learning new tips and tricks for this great hobby. Thank you for sharing.

@blitstitch

5 жыл бұрын

When I stitch my HAED, I stitch all of the stitches of each color as I work. I guess that you could say that I stitch cross country inside that one 100-stitch block. I do this because I am am stitching one-over-one on a high count fabric and I think that the stitches are so small that it is hard for them to look uneven. On all of my other projects I don't put in a stitch until the stitch to the left has been stitched (working in columns from left to right).

It was me!!! Thank you so much!!

@blitstitch

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Lesa. Sorry, I didn't write your name down and didn't know where to go to find it again. I hope that this helped.

@xStitcher

5 жыл бұрын

blitstitch it helped. I am struggling with parking with the diagonal method. I am practicing and will find what works for me. Thank you!!

Hi Brian. As always I look forward to your videos. With this video I FINALLY understand the concept and look forward to putting it to good use. I do have one question though. I hope you and any others reading this does not feel it's a stupid question. When there are multiple colors do you work the diagonal in the same manner? I am assuming you just work with one color at a time within that diagonal. Am I correct in thinking this? Take care and may God bless you.. Sherry

@blitstitch

5 жыл бұрын

Hi Sherry, I generally stitch each row/column before I move on to the next one. If there are multiple colors, I will work each color in the row or column before I start working on the next column.

I already started my first full coverage piece and completed 120 across and 60 down. Can I start diagonal stitching now? I am confused about how to start this

Thanks so much Brian! This was very helpful. I have a few questions though, I hope you don’t mind. Do you tie off your thread when you have to switch colors or do you park it somewhere? Also, when you complete the first triangle and begin the parallelogram on the long side, do you carry your thread from the far corner or do you tie off and start a new thread? Your projects looks so neat and tidy even when they are in progress. Your method seems like it would make a very neat back too. Thanks again!

@blitstitch

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Sumira. When I finish working with a color, I park it in the next stitch where I will use it. When I finish a diagonal, I finish off the threads because I don't want to carry them that far. If there aren't a lot of color changes, my backs are pretty neat. However they can get quite messy when there is a lot of confetti.

@sumirao9513

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks Brian! This is all very helpful. I will give it a try on my HAED. It is my first one. 😊

Can you also draw out further parallel rows? Wish you had shown at least one more row in your note book. When you get to the center of the pattern it would we a huge long row?

I have watched this video on diagonal stitching twice and attempted it once and gave up. I have been comfortable using Carolyn Massio’s parking method working within a 10 x 10 block and working vertically down each column. However, for the first time I am noticing very definite vertical lines on one of my WIPs. Looks bad. I am going to go diagonal starting now!

@blitstitch

4 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Doug! I hope that diagonal stitching works for you the third time.

Hi Brian-Great video. One question: I like to complete my stitch before the next. Would this work with diagonal stitching?

@blitstitch

5 жыл бұрын

Yes, you can stitch that way as well. Thanks for watching, Helen!

When working horizontally how do you know where to start as usually one starts at the center of the work

Brian. Could I stitch in columns and rows on the same chart. I tend to work in rows mostly. Would my stitches look different from each other if I stitched using both ways on the same chart? Thanks.

@blitstitch

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Tracey. I have learned from sad experience that my stitches are a little bit different when I stitch horizontally vs vertically. I would be very hesitant to stitch both ways on the same piece--especially if the design has large blocks of one color. I would be afraid that I would see diagonal lines running through the stitching. If there is a lot of confetti it might not be a problem, though.

I’m trying to figure how you latch your first stitch from the top. 😊 it looks much easier than how I do it!

@blitstitch

5 жыл бұрын

I am using the loop method. I fold the floss in half before I thread it into my needle. Then I push the needle down from the right side, bring it back up through another hole, catch the loop, put my needle back down through the same hole that it came up in, and rotate the loop to the back. I think that there are several videos on KZread that show how to do it. Thanks for watching!

Thank you for that! It was so interesting!How many holes in each stitch?

@emmaswartz6653

5 жыл бұрын

Linda Berry Brian’s sample was stitched on Linen, so over two or nine holes, you miss the center stitch on all sides including the middle one.

@lindaberry5409

5 жыл бұрын

Thank you for the answer!

@blitstitch

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Linda. I am glad that you found it interesting. I forget that not everyone has stitched on linen, so I probably should have explained that.

Estoy apenas conociéndote, y vi tu video por primera vez. Una pregunta: por qué en tu explicación no incluyes cómo se haría la técnica en la esquina inferior derecha?

@blitstitch

Жыл бұрын

Bienvenida a mi canal! Pienso que puedes ver como hacer la tecnica en las quatro esquinas en el video numero 5.

Thanks Brian. I have been trying to do the diagonal. Just a quick question. Starting in left corner, you do 1) a triangle, 2) a parallelogram, 3 )a triangle and then where? Do you do another parallelogram(4), then triangle(5) then last triangle(6)? Or, triangle(4), parallelogram(5), triangle(6)? That would complete a box. I’m a little confused. I watched your first video on diagonal stitching.

@blitstitch

5 жыл бұрын

Thanks, Sarah. I would start back up and stitch another diagonal, but this time there would be two parallelograms followed by a triangle. Each diagonal gets longer until I hit the next corner. At that point, all of the diagonals remain the same length, but I will be stitching a triangle followed by several parallelograms. When I hit the next corner the diagonals start to get shorter until the design is finished. You can probably see how things work if you take a chart and highlight diagonals through it.

Question. I have been a cross stitcher for many years but stopped working on it for a few years. I just started watching this video and you started stitching in a corner. I’m old school. We were taught to find the center point of the fabric. Then I watched your video where you were showing your work completed and WIPs and saw the diagonal stitching. Which is why I am watching this. So just wondering about it all.

@blitstitch

Жыл бұрын

I was taught to start in the center also, but I have decided that I prefer working from a corner because that way I can work through the design more systematically. I still find the center but then I count out to the corner I am going to start from.

@marthacook

Жыл бұрын

@@blitstitch oh, now I understand.thank you.

Huh. That’s pretty much exactly what I ended up doing at some point. There were *large* areas of single colors in a certain full coverage piece (like... they might be over a thousand stitches per area? Many 10x10 blocks, anyway. I’m not sure I want to calculate it before I finish those bits) and first I just tried going across the entire width in rows, where a single thread might do less than a single row all the way across... and I found it stultifyingly boring, and with no visible progress whatsoever, so I gave up on that. Then I tried going in blocks of roughly 10x10, with raggedy edges (1 in, then normal, then 1 out, then normal, then 1 in, etc - so the edge going wobbly to avoid sheer column lines showing up), but that didn’t really click for me either... and then I tried pure diagonals, and that worked much better for me. For the large blocks, anyway. Confetti coverage I still use wobbly edged 10x10 blocks with parking.

@blitstitch

4 жыл бұрын

Wow, it sounds like we went through the same steps in getting to about the same conclusion. It is great to hear from another guy that stitches. Thanks for watching!

You have a gentle voice then when the music comes on its really loud.

It would be much more helpful if you drew out several more rows of diagonals in your notebook. First two are fine but third row would be a super diagonal? Need to know where to stop and start in groups of ten?? We really don’t need to see you making stitches