Fewer mistakes, less fixing Also helps you catch errors quicker. Fabric designed to make stitching easier This ingenious stitching fabric has been designed with water-soluble lines marked on the fabric every 10 stitches. Grid lines help you keep on track with your stitching. Pre-gridded with lines that wash away with water when your project is complete. Then fill in the blank quadrants! If your pattern isn't square, you might want to make a note of which side is to be the top/bottom of your pattern so it's clear when you start stitching. Aida Cloth 16 Count Easy Guide Pre-Gridded Cross Stitch Fabric Get to your stitching faster with ZWEIGART brand Easy Guide pre-gridded fabric Also available in 14, 18 count and 20 count Aida.As well as specialty evenweave & Aida fabrics in selected dye runs. Also EVENWEAVE, LINEN, WASTE CANVAS, VINYL WEAVE 13, & NEEDLEPOINT CANVAS. From there, count out each 10s horizontally and vertically (or 5s, whichever you prefer - I do 10s personally) until you get the width and height of your pattern. CROSS-STITCH WAREHOUSE STOCKS A FABULOUS range of all CROSS-STITCH fabrics.For example, all of the patterns available on my website show this by a crossing of two red lines, seen here.įrom there, find the closest 10s cross-over and mark that on your fabric (sometimes this will be the same as your centre point). 6 Pieces Cross Embroidery Fabric 14 Count Aida Cloth 11.81 x 17.72 Inch Cross Aida Star Sky Printed Patterns Cross Cloth Embroidery Cloth for DIY Art Craft Handwork 4. Looking at your pattern, there be a center mark depicted in some way. How?įold your fabric in half, twice, so you find the very centre of your fabric.

So to combat this, before I pick up a needle and thread, I go over my fabric with a water soluble pen (which come in blue colours usually) and dot out a simple grid. Although it looks lovely while you're stitching, I find I'm spending more time counting my tiny little squares (remember, for 14ct Aida, that's 14 tiny little squares per inch!) than I am spending stitching. The woven-in, 10 x 10 grid corresponds exactly to the pattern chart and helps to ease transferring patterns. Easy Count Grid is a counting help which is woven in the fabric and which disappears after washing. I personally find it very difficult to keep track of where I am in a pattern if I work purely on a clean piece of fabric. AIDA can be used to create large cross-stitch patterns as well as more detailed designs.

Gridded aida cloth