Hi from New Zealand. Thank you for your wonderful tutorial. I have been stitching for many years but have learnt so much.

Thank you so much for these tutorials. Your explanations are clear and concise. I used to cross stitch many years ago and I'm just coming back to the hobby and started my first full coverage piece a few months ago. Your explanations have helped a great deal as I do not have friends who share this hobby to ask for advice!! I'm looking forward to seeing more great content from you...

@piros44

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I’m glad you’re finding my tutorials helpful!

Thank you, thank you, thank you! I've tried to stitch row by row with threaded needles before only to frustrate myself. I would end up with a tangled mess. I'm so happy to see it explained and demonstrated so plainly. I can't wait to give it another go!!!!

@piros44

3 жыл бұрын

Awesome! I hope it works for you as well as it does for me. Feel free to reach out with questions.

Hi Nerdy thank you for sharing you knowledge I am impressed and learned a lot from you I definitely fallow you watch every morning before I go to work while I am in my treadmill thank you so much

Awesome tutorial!! Thanks

Only just found you. But loving your videos. Thankyou 🌈

My list of "tools" to get from your suggestions is growing. But by far the most impressive - The Needle Park Ave! Absolutely brilliant. Game changer for my project. I truly appreciate all the time you've invested into these video teachings. Thank you.

@piros44

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you! I love the needle park Avenue system. I tried several other solutions but this one works great. All because I love the parking method but hate threading needles.

I just laughed out loud. My grandsons use the expression ‘poopy head’ all the time.

@piros44

3 жыл бұрын

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So happy to have found your video.. Ive learned so much! Can't wait to try this method out. Thank you for your wonderful explanations!

Thanks!

I'm looking forward to your next 102 video! This one gave e a better idea of your parking method but I'm hoping that on a smaller piece we'll be able to see etail more clearly. I have a biggish full coverage piece that I am going to eventually restart, I think. I bit off too much the first time I tried it and I think my knowledge of techniques and materials is improving, thanks in part to your videos.

Wonderful teaching!

@piros44

3 жыл бұрын

Thank you!

So thankful I came across your videos to learn about the park Avenue needle minder! I’ve ordered 3 and hope they arrive soon. I love parking with keeping needles attached but always got frustrated with the needles magnetizing to each other and making a mess. The Velcro to hold then in line is brilliant! I’m starting a new full coverage this week and I hope to stick with this method (although I do tend to get distracted by other directly attached stitches of a color when I attempt diagonal). I think with having thread on the needles I’ll be less tempted to get “out of line.” Look forward to seeing what you show us next. :)

@piros44

2 жыл бұрын

I'm glad this works for you! When I first started doing needle parking, I stuck the needles in the fabric, then I stuck them on a magnetic chain and had the same thing with everything magnetized and sticking to each other. The Park Avenues were a game changer and I love this method now. I'm planning out the Aida part of a video series on how to cross stitch, which I plan on getting done in January so keep an eye out for it. I plan on walking people through the whole diagonal, needle parking, laying tool, etc. in a video class format. I'm a former teacher so my lesson planning brain is having a blast planning this all out. Super fun project for a soggy Oregon winter.

Amazing. Thank you

I just watched your video. Really helped me with understanding the parking method. I just started cross stitching 3 months ago and am excited to try a full coverage piece. I was interested in looking up the maker and your piece. Would you please send me the name? Thank you.

I am absorbing absolutely everything you are showing us and want to thank you so much. Everything time you talk about a new gadget or tool I've had to try it and they really do make life so much easier! I'm waiting on my trolley needle - you have inspired me to make perfect stitches. Do you have any idea where to get a "fuzzy" needle minder like your little sheep? I can't seem to find one anywhere and it does look like it would be very handy for all those extra needles.

@piros44

3 жыл бұрын

I got that sheep needle minder a long time ago on Ebay and they don't store our purchases back that far, unfortunately. You might try looking for a felted pincushion. I saw a cute one on Etsy from BabeStoreUA called Hedgehog pincushion, tiny hedgehog, pin cushion that might work.. I'm so glad you're finding my videos helpful!

Thank you for taking the time to share what you've learned about stitching. Your pieces are so lovely. Could you please explain again why the trolley tool works? It seems like you're just tapping the floss. I'm sure there's more to it but I'm just not grasping the concept. Thanks!

@piros44

3 жыл бұрын

What I do is stick the trolley needle spike next to the part of the thread that is entering the fabric so the thread runs over the spike. I pull the trolley needle off to the side just a bit when I do this to put some tension on the thread as I pull it through the fabric. The tension takes out the twists in the two strands of floss as it enters the fabric. You might want to slow down the video (setting is in the three dots on the upper right corner in KZread) at around time 32:15 so you can see it more clearly (and you can listen to me talk like I’m massively stoned...). I’m planning on doing a WIP update in the next week or two so I’ll throw a quick ‘watch me stitch’ video on laying tools where I’ll slow down the process in with the rest. I’ve worked out a quick set up for videoing myself stitching so I can easily do it and I suspect lots of other folks would like more info on it.

@piros44

3 жыл бұрын

I made a video on laying tools that I just posted. I should have been working on my taxes but this was way more fun. :) Time to go deal with that now. :(

Thanks for this! I’ve been wanting to try diagonals myself, I do enjoy parking but I usually will do a 100x100 square and go across or down. My questions, since I’m writing this partway through the video and you may answer it towards the end 😂😂 how far do you personally carry your threads when parking? And say if you’re doing the color Y and you have a Y less than ten stitches but it’s in the next diagonal but the Y in your current diagonal is like 20 stitches down, which one would you park in?

@piros44

3 жыл бұрын

I carry 10 to at most 15 stitches away depending on the color. I avoid carrying super dark colors since it can show through even in full coverage pieces ( I talk about this thread carry issue in my later videos). For your color Y question, I would park in the next diagonal and not carry 20 stitches. On all the patterns I’ve stitched so far, colors tend to appear in regions close together. My next project has much more confetti and open regions of fabric so it’ll be interesting to figure out how to manage lots of scattered colors. I’ll definitely share how it goes once I get there.

Can you explain how to find the starting point in a pattern when stitching horizontally? Do you just count from the center line out to the left however many stitches to the end of the pattern? Was unclear considering one usually starts in the middle and works outward.....I watched Brian’s video but was unclear how to Stitch the parallel rows the further out from the left you go as rows become longer and longer as approach center of the pattern. Do you still just go in groups of ten?

Thank you so much!! I've enjoy your videos. I'm a newbie, since Nov. 2020. I did the Veruaco Jesus, my 2nd. piece. I'm going to try diagonal and parking method . Thank you, again. Wish me luck ! P.S. On your not actual pattern, why don't you color code it and stitch it.. I'd like to see what it will turn out to be.

@piros44

2 жыл бұрын

It's been a while since your comment but since you're a newbie, you might want to check out my new series Intro to Cross Stitch that has a bunch of techniques shown all in one place. It's what I wish I had access to when I got back in to stitching some years ago. I hope you find it helpful.

I am wondering if you are doing a full coverage how you keep your needle holder on the left as your diagonals grow larger.

@piros44

3 жыл бұрын

I just put the needle minder on top of my stitching. I haven’t had a problem with it marking my stitching but if I had lots of light colors where even a little bit of soiling would be visible, I’d put a scrap of fabric between my stitching and needle minder.

So if your row consisted of say....xxyy&&xx###xx Do you stitch ALL the same symbols at once or do you do each set of symbols in sequence?

@piros44

3 жыл бұрын

I your pattern, I’ll stitch all the x, park t9he needle , then stitch all y, then &, then #. So I stitch every stitch in the row of the first color on the left, then the one after and so on.

What are those things you're using to put your needles on?

Would it be possible to show a close up of how you organize your threaded parked needles on the bottom? I saw that you have them clipped together with a hair clip, and you mention a magnet. Are the threaded needles all stuck to the magnet or are they dangling below the hair clip?

@piros44

3 жыл бұрын

All the threads that I parked on the previous diagonal I pull to the bottom and clip with a hair clip and stick the clip to a magnet right at the base of the bottom of the scroll frame. The tails of those threads, I drape across the support arm of my Millenium frame to keep them from getting in the way. If I have a thread that I need to park a few rows down, I park it in the bottom left hole, run the thread under all my other working threads and stick the needle to the magnet that holds the hair clip. When I get to that thread's row, I put it back with my other active working threads. I'll be posting a follow up 'stitch with me' on my parking method later tonight and I talk about this there also.

WHERE DID YOU GET THE MULTI NEEDLE PARK TOOL ?

Where can I get the Park Ave. needle minders.

Very interesting way to stitch! Your stitches are beautiful. I do have a question…when you start stitching a row, why not start stitching with the parked thread that is closest to the right ( because you stitch from left to right) so you won’t have to deal with the other parked threads?

@piros44

2 жыл бұрын

That's a good question! I'll have to try your idea and see how it goes.

Sorry if you mentioned this, but I was wondering how far down the diagonal you would park a thread?

@piros44

3 жыл бұрын

Within a diagonal, I park within 10-15 stitches away at the most, usually less,. In the patterns I’ve done so far, the same color appears row after row or maybe skipping a row or two so there is no reason to carry the thread very far. I get lazy about counting so if it’s more counting without an easy reference point like a grid line or another stitch, I end the thread and start it again with a waste knot since that’s less time and effort than doing a bunch of counting, double checking it and potentially making a mistake. Very dark threads, I don’t carry especially if it’s in the middle of much lighter colors to avoid potentially seeing the darker color through from the back. When I park for the next diagonal, I carry a bit farther, especially if it’s a relatively long thread, maybe 25 stitches away at most. Hope this helps!

So are you ending your floss with a slip know straight down or sraight across from the diagonal? More demonstrations of starting and ending would be helpful and what if your working single strand and can’t slipknot the end?

@piros44

2 жыл бұрын

For ending my thread after my last stitch, I come up through the fabric about 5 stitches away, put a knot, and cut the rest off. There is now a thread that is carried on the back of the fabric that will be covered up by the rows of stitching that I’ll do between that last stitch and the knot. I used to put my knot 10 stitches away but then realized that that was excessive but how far doesn’t really matter. The only thing I pay attention to for where to come up and knot the thread is to avoid carrying a dark color when the stitches that will cover it are light because, in rare cases, that dark color might make the lighter stitches that cover it look a bit soiled. My 4th video talks about this. Hope this helps!

This is really making stitching so complicated. Stitching is supposed to be relaxing. I'll stick to cross country stitching! 😃

@piros44

3 жыл бұрын

Enjoy! I used to do cross country but I found it too much counting so this works for me.

@jennthecaffeinatedcrafter5679

3 жыл бұрын

That’s what I find so wonderful about stitching! So many different ways to stitch, there’s no one set way 🥰🥰 I love parking, and cross country stresses me out because I’ve miscounted too many times 😂😂😂

@pitownsally2795

3 жыл бұрын

To me, cross country is super complicated. You have to count and count again and then if you make a mistake you've got to frog a bunch of stitches. Parking and this type of stitching solves all those problems for me. Not much counting and as you saw in the video you find your parking mistakes pretty quickly so frogging is pretty much at a minimum. To each his own though, that's what makes stitching so great there are so many different styles and ways to do it.