Parking, country & whatever else

[nhmomquilts]

Hi ladies! Could someone Please educate me on the methods of Parking, cross country & other "styles" I should know? I know How I do things but I've never heard of these names..... I feel like new info would assist my quality of work. Th in advance for your help. Happy fall from New Hampshire!

[LadyS]

Parking: You don't finish off the thread when you're done with the color for a part, you "park" it and then keep going when the color comes up again until you run out of that piece of thread.


Cross Country: You pick one color and work on it for an entire page, design, or area of a design.

Neither of these pictures are my own work.

[nhmomquilts]

Ohhhhhh, tyvm! Apparently I'm a cross country stitcher....although I do not do the entire piece. Depending upon size and complexity, I either work center out of left to right. I guess I'm a mixer. Ty again for your time in ecplaining, the pics were an amazing vidhal. I am mostly self taught, so names of techniques are not known to me. Have a blessed day.

[Kibakyu]

This is actually a really helpful post, I didn't know that my technique is called cross country but I guess it all comes down to preference!

[seedreemer]

It turns out I'm a cross country stitcher as well and didn't know that's what it was called. Unlike the rest of the known world, I like labels and don't mind having another one.

I always thought cross country meant instead of starting a new piece of thread elsewhere you just ran it under stitches on the back for long sections.

[rcperryls]

I used to say that I was "cross county" because I tend for the most part to stay in relatively smaller areas. but I guess cross country would apply also. I used to think that meant that a stitcher stitched all of one color and then went to the next color, but I like to do sections so I can see bits and pieces come together. Hope that makes sense. Tried parking but once I got past 3 threads I was in trouble

Carole

[seedreemer]

Tried parking but once I got past 3 threads I was in trouble

I don't have the brains for parking.