WORLD CROSS STITCH DAY

1.  Stitching with 2 or more different colors of floss threaded in your needle simultaneously is called what? (There are 2 correct answers.  You must select                 both answers to be correct.)

            Tweeding
            Blending
            Tweeding and Blending are the same thing.  To get full credit both answers must be selected.
            Tweeding is more associated with 2 distinctly different  colors to create a speckled look, while blending is more associated with 2 very similar colors to                smoothly transition from 1 color to the next or to create a  new unavailable color.

2.  What do you need to do to be able to cross stitch on a sweatshirt?

             Use waste canvas

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3.  World Frog Day is celebrated in the month of?

            March

            March 20th

4. What do you call the tool you use to keep your stitches flat or coax them into place?

        A laying tool.
    
5.  Embellished cross stitch is?

 
        A design painted on fabric with cross stitch and backstitch accents.

         The embellishment part is the  cross stitch.   For an example:  https://craftersmarket.net/hoiswhheisii.html

6.  A 6 strand skein of DMC floss is approximately

          313 inches

          A skein is 8 meters, which is 8.7 yards or 313 inches.   This is important if you need to figure out how many skeins of floss you need.  On 14 count you can            get 2.5 stitches per inch.

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7.  Hardanger embroidery uses which of the following techniques? (choose all that apply)

         Drawn work, Buttonhole stitch, Needle weaving  Cutwork, Satin stitch,  Cross stitch, Back stitch

         All 7 of the techniques listed are used in  hardanger.  The more selected the  more points received.

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8.  Which is not a recommended method of securing the fabric's edges to keep them from unraveling?

         Masking tape

         It turns yellow and dusty and it leaves residue on the fabric that attracts dirt.

9.  Marking your fabric off in 10 x 10 stitch squares is called what?

          Gridding

10.  A design stitched on 18 count Aida will be larger than the same design stitched on 28 count linen over 2.

            False

            A design stitched on 28 count over 2 is the same as stitching on 14 count.  14 stitches per inch produces a larger finished item than the same design                       stitched on 18 count.

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