Expert: Angela - 11/30/2009

Question
How do I stitch a square when it has a smaller symbol in the square beside a larger symbol in a square? ex. v V V V v  (It is not 2 different color symbols.) There is a line through the square with the small v, but it is not always an exact diagonal line through the middle of the square. The small v's have back stitch around them. What kind of stitch should these small symbols be?

Some squares have two color symbols separated by a diagonal line. I understand these should be quarter stitches. Is this correct?

If a square has a diagonal line with only one color on one side of the diagonal line, what kind of stitch is that?


Answer
Hello, Sharon :)

The 2 symbols sounds like that they want you to create a 3/4 stitch with a 1/4 stitch in the same square.

The 2 different colored symbols mean that they want you to do 2 1/4 stitches in the same square in the 2 colors.

The square that has a diagonal line through it means that you will need to do a 3/4 stitch.

Here is a website that may help you:

http://www.fidella.com/webstitch/stitch04.html

Good luck, and happy stitching! :)

Sincerely,

Angela :)