How to use Plastic Canvas

What is Plastic canvas?
Plastic Canvas is a fantastic idea. By stitching yarn into patterns on the plastic canvas sheets, and then whipstitching the sheets together, you can make warm, colourful, and practical objects: from plantpots to jewellery boxes, drinks coasters to mobile phone holders.
Plastic canvas has rapidly grown into a well-known and much-loved form of needlecrafting. It's a simple technique that lends itself perfectly for introducing pre-teens and beginners to the joy of creating something with their hands and imagination. This often leads to the desire to learn other crafts, such as embroidery, crochet, and so forth.
A lifetime of stitching tantalizing home decor and personalized accessories are yours for the making, not only for yourself, but for friends and family. Once you pick up a needle and a piece of plastic canvas, it will soon become a constant companion.
Tip: Always bring needle up through the canvas at odd numbers and take it back down through the canvas at the even numbers.
Basic Stitches
How to count or identify stitches:
Each stitch is made over the plastic where the lines of plastic cross each other (over the +). When you are counting the stitches in our patterns, count each line of plastic as one stitch except for the first outside plastic line.
How to Stitch:
To make a stitch, bring your needle up through the hole to the left and bottom of the +.
Then send your needle back down through the hole to the right and top of the +.
How to Stitch Cont.
Continue stitches in this manner, working from left to right until you reach the end of your row.
Next, move down to the next row and make your stitches in the same direction, only this time, stitch your row from right to left.
To Start Working a Color:
To start, bring your needle and thread up through the first hole until there is only about 1/2" of thread left under the plastic canvas. Hold that "tail" of thread under the canvas in the direction that you will be stitching. As you stitch the first few stitches, make sure to catch the "tail" of thread in the underside stitches.
To End Working a Color:
To finish with a color or piece of thread simply flip your canvas over to see the wrong side of the project and send your needle under several underside stitches. Cut yarn off.
Working with the Patterns:
To follow the patterns, stitch the object first, then stitch the background color last.
Count the stitches on the pattern to find out where your start location should be. Then count on the plastic canvas to find you start location.
Our patterns show the stitches in the actual colors for all objects. Fill in all background with the color shown on the outline stitches of the pattern.
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