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
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.
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.
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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