How to stitch on Dublin Linen

by Debbie
(Tonawanda)

I am an experienced cross stitcher, however, I have never stitched on linen fabric. I recently purchased a beautiful pattern that requires that I use 25 count dublin linen. The pattern is stitched over one thread instead of two.

My question is, when stitching, will my crosses have a thread in the middle of each one instead of a square. I'm a little confused about this. Any help with my question is greatly appreciated.

Debbie in Tonawanda.


Carol responds...

Yes, Debbie, you would have a fabric thread in the middle instead of a block. If you haven't stitched on evenweave or linen fabrics before you might find the following page on the site useful...

Counted cross stitch on linen and evenweave.

Regards,

Carol

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by: Anonymous

Thank you for such good intro information. I was curious about all the things you shared and hope to be using linen this year in a project. Thanks again.
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by: Valerie Kalyani

Yes, you will have a little '+' under your stitch, not a '#', if this makes sense! I recommend you stitch one over one, it is a lot less work.
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by: Anonymous

I would personally stitch it as PetitPoint. Its just half a cross stitch - looks like tapestry stitch it is straight stitch on the back and slanting on front as I said half cross stitch.

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