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I use straight blade squissors, on the left in this picture, for cutting on 28ct and finer, but if I'm working on 22ct or 25ct I usually just use my stork scissors.

Thanks for the info Mabel--I do have stork scissors already, so may soon get brave and do the basic cutting--so I won't need to try and hunt down the squissors??
Edit--don't need to hunt them down as they are in the link you posted Will experiment a bit with what I have

Good on you Karen for trying something new.

Been trying a bit more on hardanger--my first cutwork attempt--on 28 count evenweave using perle 5 for the kloster blocks and perle 8 for the needleweaving--must admit it's not nearly as scary as I thought it would be.

I put a scrap of blue evenweave behind the cutwork to help show the cutwork

Looking forward to more of this

great work. I've started doing hardanger recently the cutwork is daunting at first but fun too.can't wait to see more well done

That's so pretty, Karen! Great work!!

Great job! I don't think anyone would know that was your first cut work.

It's looking great!
Faith

You are very brave to be able to cut your work. I admire all that do hardanger!!!!!!

Yay, your first cuts ! great work, it looks really good

Lovely work Karen

It looks great Karen I'm too scared to attempt that yet maybe some day lol great work

Great work and you are very brave

Cutting is what allows you to do all the really pretty and interesting stuff! Excellent first step.

Wow! It looks great so far!