Instructions for your tapestry

Please download our PDF booklet for instructions for your tapestry. It includes how to start, what type of stitches and how to finish your work as a cushion or framed.

Please get in touch if you need any advice, we're always happy to help.

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How to begin your tapestry with the half-cross stitch method

  • Illustration of how-to thread wool through canvas.

    1

    Thread your needle and tie a knot at the end of the length of wool. Feed the needle in through the canvas, front to back. Push the needle back through the canvas about 6 holes away from where you started and one hole up so the back thread sits slightly diagonally. 

  • Green thread being threaded through a needle on a grid background

    2

    Next push the needle through the hole that sits diagonally blow and make the first stitch, in the direction of the knot.

  • Thread stitching through canvas for tapestry.

    3

    Next push the needle from the back to the front, making sure you have covered the long thread at the back to secure.

  • Green thread weaving through tapestry canvas.

    4

    Continue stitching back over the thread towards the knot, threading the needle in and out through the canvas in a diagonal pattern. 

  • Diagram of a needle with green thread on a grid background

    The back

    The stitches on the back of the canvas should cover the thread to secure. Cut the knot off the thread on the front. Snip quite closely to the canvas, otherwise you will get a scruffy end showing.