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Drlynnann (talk) 20:15, 30 January 2017 (UTC)[reply]

New article[edit]

Since this fine article is about the embroidery style, I have started cross stitches to be a companion to chain stitch, satin stitch, couching (embroidery), and so on.

It will have a gallery of stitch diagrams like the others eventually. I see the two as being complementary, and do not recommend merging them. - PKM 01:56, 3 July 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Point of View[edit]

I removed this section, which was under "Uses": "Cross-stitch is the most popular form of hobby embroidery in the western world. It lends itself well to recreational use, as it is easy to learn and very versatile." It seems to be primarily POV. Is there is a citation for the first sentence? writingjen 16:50, 26 October 2007 (UTC)[reply]

Non-existent word[edit]

Hello I hope this isn't wasting anyone's time, but I found a word in this article which does not exist. I'm not an expert on embroidery and cannot work out what the writer intended to say, consequently I can't edit the word. The word is 'Prostational', there is no such word in the OED (the 20 volumes, current, 2nd edition). Even if the word is a widely used form in the embroidery field, I would argue that its use is inappropriate because its meaning is not clear to the 'uninitiated'.

Many thanks,

Lou Fioravanti (talk) 20:34, 7 December 2011 (UTC)[reply]

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Converting Photographs to Cross-stitch Patterns[edit]

I noticed that this is not mentioned on the main article page. This is a way to make some beautiful family heirlooms. I have not done any myself yet but I am going to convert a photo of my two nephews and build a portfolio of my finished cross-stitch projects. I'm hoping to start a small business of sewing and was doing some research on pricing finished projects. I think if anybody in the sewing world knows of a good way to do so it would be an important section to add to the article as would a section about converting photographs to patterns. e-bay and google images have many photos of finished photo-cross-stitch projects. On e-bay you will get some examples of pricing projects but it is difficult to do so as there are many factors to consider such as the price of materials and the length of time it takes to complete a project (cross-stitch is a time consuming hobby, the larger the project the longer it takes, sometimes weeks if not months). So far I have not decided on a good way to price as I have read in many places that sometimes people are not willing to pay for the finished product as the cost may be too high. In my opinion no price is too high as the customer may not understand the amount of time and work that goes into working on a piece and that the cost of materials must be added on. I hope this is a useful addition to the discussion page. Happy sewing everyone! Lavinleitrim (talk) 14:19, 2 January 2012 (UTC)[reply]

Spelling[edit]

This article has "evenweave" as one word. The respective page has "Even-weave" Please check whether hyphenated or not and correct accordingly. 99.11.160.111 (talk) 06:05, 31 January 2013 (UTC)[reply]

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I feel the quality of the external links on this page are considerably lower than were a little while ago and I am concerned at the editing of these. The 3 links that are on the page now are, in my opinion, fairly low quality - do people really think that these offer the best cross stitch resources available on the web????

I have re-added a link that used to be on this page 3 times recently and every time it has been removed within a couple of hours. I have found the page I was trying to link to very useful and informative and up until recently it had been part of the external links for many, many months.

The link I added worked (I did check) and the page, a 'cross stitch a to z' is the highest ranked page on google for this search - so how can it not be worthy of inclusion????

I wonder who is doing this editing - I can only think that someone is trying to use the links section on this page to try to improve the visibility of their own website at the expense of the overall quality of the page!

Is this another example, like DMOZ, of a good idea going bad?????

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