Hi! I am new to SQ but have LOVED cross stitch for years. I was in the Army for a while so all my cross stitch stuff was in boxes for years, recently out seeing the light of day again..and in perfect time. At the beginning of November they found a very large blood clot in my leg and I am now home from work---probably until the first of the year. At any rate, I ordered and have started Kissing the Face of God. This is my first major project like this so I am looking for how others do things.
I am not a patient person so I usually jump in and then later realize I could have prepared better. I like to stitch with a hoop (what have I read about tight enough to bounce a child off...). In the past, the projects I have done I have not bothered to do anything with the edges of the fabric as I was not going to be working on that fabric for too long. I did have edges that frayed still but nothing I worried about. However, I know I will be working on this one a long time and already have lost thread from the edge. I am wondering, what do you all do to prepare the edges of the fabric to keep it from fraying?
Today is the 7th day I have been working on this one and I am hoping to post a picture tomorrow of all the work done through today. I really am glad I found this forum because there is a treasure trove of information here. Yesterday I read something about seeing the page lines in a finished piece and was glad I stumbled across that because I had originally planned on doing one page at a time. I have now changed that tactic to hopefully prevent the page lines.
Thanks!!
Kelly
