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I purchased one several years ago ..... it hurt my leg so I got rid of it. I'm back to stitching using my hoop.

I do not use a winder. I do like Rose and find winding my thread on the cardboard bobbins quite relaxing while watching tv at night. I have purchased plastic bobbins but sometimes the little slots in the side of the bobbin are too wide and the threads come loose so I stay with the cardboard.

I tried it once after reading some of the comments on this thread & the aida came out worse than before. Still stiff & wrinkled. I tried steam ironing it and nothing worked for me. It came in a kit so maybe the aida wasn't a good quality to begin with.

I agree with Mimers....in my 40a+ years of X-stitching I have never felt the need to "Wash" my finished project. I will dip it in a bowl of warm water just to block it and lay in out in between two white terry cloth towels and roll it up to get most of the moisture out of it then with a wa...

I agree w/Rose------whatever works for you. I usually zig-zag on my sewing machine. Right now I'm working on a project that required more stabilzation so I used fra-check and also some surgical tape because of the type of evenweave I was using.

Hello all....I've been xstitching for many years and thought I knew it all but after discovering this site & learned about RR my stitching looks so much better. Yes, it slowed me down at first but now I can stitch at a pretty good pace and it just comes natural for me now.

While we are on the subject of "thin" floss I recently purchased a kit (Bucilla) and have replaced all of the floss with my DMC floss. I thought the thread that came with the kit was inferior and did not cover well. Will never buy a kit again. Just stick to patterns and use my own DMC.

I'm doing some backstitching at this moment using DMC 3031 and it is also thin.