{"id":507,"date":"2014-01-22T17:24:14","date_gmt":"2014-01-22T17:24:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.eponases.com\/blog\/?p=507"},"modified":"2016-10-16T16:40:58","modified_gmt":"2016-10-16T16:40:58","slug":"cross-stitch-stitches-per-skein","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.eponases.com\/blog\/2014\/01\/cross-stitch-stitches-per-skein\/","title":{"rendered":"Cross-stitch – stitches per skein"},"content":{"rendered":"

So I had a question recently on YouTube<\/a>:<\/p>\n

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I started to answer and I had a number in my head for how many stitches I thought I would get from a skein, but then I thought more about it. How do I know? I have never looked into it, have never seen any information about it, so how can I be of use giving advice I don’t even know?<\/p>\n

So of course the next thing was – I needed to know for myself now.<\/p>\n

As many of you may know I have been working on Madeline<\/a>, and she has a large patch of solid white colour on her chest where the sun beams stream through the window.<\/p>\n

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So, in order to calculate the answer to the question, I measured 1m of thread and started to stitch.<\/p>\n

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If you pay attention to picture above – you can see the symbol for u – which is the white I have been talking about.\u00a0When I finished I started to count, count and then count some more.<\/p>\n

I came out with numbers:\u00a0404 stitches per 1m, so for a skein (which is 8m), it would be 3232 stitches. However this piece of stitching was unusual because it was a big square of solid colour (usually the stitching requires you to “jump around” a little more), and so I rounded the number down a bit.<\/p>\n

So my final conclusion is: 3000 stitches per skein \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n

N.B. This is for 18ct aida (thanks Kate!). If you’re using a smaller count like 14ct, you will get a few fewer crosses.<\/strong><\/p>\n

PS. the end number was bigger and completely off from what I had previously thought, so I was pleasantly surprised.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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