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2L means 5 x 7″ Framing Your Cross Stitch Piece Personally, this would be my last choice as I think this would be pretty difficult for a nonprofessional, but if you are handy with mat board you can always give it a try! Japan is also great at maxing up sizes. This is a little difficult with a lower-priced frame, as they are usually pretty thin, but you can add matting or an inner frame so that the edges of the fabric don’t show. Stitchers are embracing the fray and letting the edges show, sometimes in a thin glass frame or else in a box with more room.įinally, you can adjust the frame itself. Recently I have seen more and more shadow boxes being used for finishing. I just sewed on 2 small strips of a similar color fabric to the top and bottom of my aida so I could then attach the piece to the frame. I did this for my “You Have to Practice” when I realized I already had a frame that was very close in size. If you have a project that doesn’t quite fit a typical frame but is close, adding some extra fabric AFTER you finish can be a good option. I went with a similar blue piece so it’s barely noticeable unless you go snooping right by the edges. You can just see it at the top of the frame. On this piece I ended up adding 2″ strips of fabric to the top and bottom of the aida.
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Japan is a metric country however so it’s easy to look up different metric frames too. This might not be a standard in your country, but it is in Japan as well as the US so I’m lucky there are a lot of frames that size to pick from. I designed him to fit in a standard 5 x 7” picture frame. Some patterns have a recommended frame, others have a standard size that will work. Do you have a project that should be 8″ x 9″ when finished? Why not add in the extra inch all around so you can frame the piece in a 8.5″ x 11″ frame? This will be a much more common frame size and let you have more options with the finished piece. This is also a good time to see if you can fit more frames by adding a bit more fabric on one side or another.
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After I have looked up how big my finished project will be on the count of fabric I am using, I usually look for frames in that size as well. You can find a stitch calculator at many places online, personally I like this one over at. If you are using a different count fabric than the one recommended, be sure to calculate what the difference will be. You need to have extra fabric on all sides so your project won’t run out of room, but also so that you have some extra fabric to wrap around the sides of your project. finished and washed but not framed yet! Before you even start stitchingīefore you start any project, you really do need to know how large it’s going to be. I’ve framed all of my own pieces so far, and while I do have a few projects that I’d like to get done professionally in the future, I’m happy to say that a self-framed piece can look nice and be done on a budget. I have a few tips for stitchers before starting a project and will walk through my latest finish with a frame I got from Daiso, a small amount of leftover batting, craft glue, and a bit of masking tape, costing me a grand total of ¥170 (about $2). While this is a good choice for very special projects, a lot of us don’t have hundreds of extra funds to drop on every finish we come up with to get them framed. While they can be beautiful, an unusual size will limit your framing choices or make things expensive if you need to get a project professionally framed. One issue I’ve run into with some finishes is that they are unusually sized. but a lot of cross stitch is purely decorative. Some projects have a purpose such as becoming a cushion, needle book, book mark, etc. Hours, days, weeks, even years of work, finally done.
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Finishing a cross stitch project is bitter sweet for many stitchers.