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I found this out tonight when I started using evenweave on a t-shirt that I'm going to make into a pillow......well my girlfriend is going to sew the pillow together but still. Anyways, I've already got the outside of the evenweave sewn on, used some safety pins here and there to hold it into place. But still I found the gridding part rather slow.

So what I found to speed up the process was that I put pins (just regular sewing pins) in the holes where I was going to come up and go down. For me I'm doing it over two on 28 count. So I would be coming up for 12 and going down for 8. So I put one where I started to come up, put one on the 12th hole, then the 8th hole, then the 12th hole, 8th hole, 12 hole, etc..... The important thing That I had done though, is I had put the pin one over where the hole is. Where I would be gridding would be the + sign and the pin would be -. So it would look like this -+----- etc.. Hope that makes sense. I will put a picture up soon.

Then I proceeded to stitch the gridding and it made it much quicker. Don't worry if it get caught on the pin right next to the hole cause I just pulled the whole thread and tightenned it up more at the end.

Hope this helps.

Anything that makes gridding less time consuming and more accurate is a bonus. Thanks!

I got some pics to show. The only tricky part I have found so far, is trying to not grab the pin on the back and grab the needle sometimes. lol.




and a close up. and I put my needle through the thread to show what I do at the end, which is tug on the thread and make it taught. A bit blurry from my phone though......

Thanks Corey. I will try this on my next project.

that's how I usually grid (both aida and up to 25ct evenweave) but I run into trouble when I try to grid on 28 or higher count cloth, just wondering if anyone else had any suggestions.