Comments on: Zig-Zag stitch simplified.

By: Faith

Faith — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 02:21:25 +0000

I have a quick question. I understand how to wrap the stitch, but the thick/thin part when hooking over confuses me. I’m not sure which is the thick part, and which is the thin. Would you explain that a little more? Thanks.

By: Pat

Pat — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 22:28:29 +0000

On the first 3 stitches and last 3 stitches (after weaving) you will have 3 loops on each. You want to look at the weaving and see if the extra loop is from the over lapping. If it is, then it is your thick side and you lift one and leave 2 loops on the needle. If not, it’s the thin side, lift the 2 bottom loops over the top loop to leave it thin. When you do the next row of weaving, you will again do an overlapp on some of the first and last needles creating the 3 loops. So that you will always end up with the 3 loops, it’s important to leave 2 on some and 1 on the others.
Remember, when you weave this stitch, you overlapp several of the needles. When you weave the next row, you overlap other needles. So you always want to leave 2 loops after the overlapp because the next row those needles will not be the ones that get the overlapp. I hope this is not just more confusing. Let us know. pat

By: Faith

Faith — Sat, 14 Oct 2006 23:39:14 +0000

Okay–I’ll play with it a little more and let you know how it goes.

By: Faith

Faith — Sun, 15 Oct 2006 01:30:23 +0000

Well, the light bulb has finally come on!!!! Thanks for the help.

By: Sandra

Sandra — Fri, 05 Oct 2007 14:15:11 +0000

Ok I don’t understand this stitch at all.I don’t understand that thick and thin parts, and sometimes I wind up with 4 wraps on one, instead of 3, and I don’t know if the angle is suppose to be different with each row. I just can’t seem to get the hang of it I guess.