Tiny Cross Stitch Hoop Instructions

Instructions

1. Find the middle of your cloth and the middle of your design and start so it is properly placed in the centre with lots of room on all sides.
2. Start stitching, ensuring you are stitching over the tail on the back of the material to keep the end in place.
3. Keep all of your stitches going in the same direction to give your finished piece a better smoother look – in this picture all of my bottom stitches are running left to right, and my top stitches are running right to left.
4. Changing colour: to finish a colour gently weave the needle through the last three or four stitches and pull firm.
5. Once finished, place the slightly smaller inner backing piece in the centre of the back of the pattern.
6. Slowly ease the hoop gently over the material and backing piece ensuring the pattern is centred until the material is flush with the edge of the hoop.
7. Insert the bolt into the hole, placing one of the nuts in the middle, and one on the outside, and slowly tightening until firmly done up.
8. Lightly trim the edges of the material, leaving enough to fold and glue down.
9. Using a hot glue gun, glue down the edges of the material to the backing piece, and then glue on the large backing piece so it sits flush with the hoop.
10. You’re finished!! Attach the hoop to a necklace, a key ring, a brooch pin, a magnet…!