They supply an easy way to print a design and get it onto your fabric, to start stitching right away. Mostly, Transfer-Eze and Sticky Fabri-Solvy are used in the hand embroidery world for surface embroidery. It comes in printer-sized sheets (12 to a package), and it’s very easy to use.Īlthough I haven’t written an article devoted solely to Fabri-Solvy, I’ve written a tutorial and review about Transfer-eze, which came out before Fabri-Solvy, and which is exactly the same concept. It’s called Sticky Fabri-Solvy, and it’s a printable, stick-on, water-soluble stabilizer. It involves another product, and you might even have some on hand. A Third Option for Cross Stitching on Plain Weave Fabric Soluble canvas by DMC is a plastic sheet with evenly spaced holes in it, and you stitch into those holes. Waste canvas is a stiffish, open-weave fabric that you stitch over, and then you pull the threads of the canvas out from underneath your stitches. The first two options I mentioned were waste canvas and soluble canvas. There’s no grid on plain weave fabric, so you have to supply a grid, if you want decent looking cross stitches. Remember, plain weave fabric is any fabric that isn’t an even-weave fabric like the kind you’d normally use for counted work.

In that article, we chatted about three ways that you can work cross stitch – or any counted technique, really – on plain weave fabric, but I didn’t clarify the third way you could do it, because I hadn’t finished my little stitchy projects to test it out.īut now I’ve finished them, so here we go!Īll three methods involve some sort of something that supplies a grid for the plain weave fabric. On Monday, I shared with you a pattern for cross-stitched snowflakes of a folky sort, that can be used to embellish table linens, ornaments, and whatnot for the holiday season.

Cross stitch graph paper 10 count