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Robert, did you use a frame?

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Did you use a frame while working on the rug?  My absolute goal is to stitch a rug.  However, my needlepoint teacher (same one who charges $1.40 for Anchor cotton embroidery floss) believes one should never use a frame but rather hug their work.  I have too many left hands and can’t imagine anything that large not on a standing frame.  But the frame at this shop costs $500+ and the canvass costs $500-$1,000.  This is an expensive hobby.  I’ve seen these rugs walked on in traffic areas of a store and they hold up beautifully.  Enjoy it!! Liz Rosenberg

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Did you use a frame while working on the rug?  My absolute goal is to stitch a rug.  However, my needlepoint teacher (same one who charges $1.40 for Anchor cotton embroidery floss) believes one should never use a frame but rather hug their work.  I have too many left hands and can’t imagine anything that large not on a standing frame.  But the frame at this shop costs $500+ and the canvass costs $500-$1,000.  This is an expensive hobby.  I’ve seen these rugs walked on in traffic areas of a store and they hold up beautifully.  Enjoy it!! Liz Rosenberg

Hi!  I use a frame on the rug I am making .  It costs several hundred dollars to straighten it professionally so I choose to work on a frame so I can hopefully forego that expense.  Good luck on your project.  You can produce a good scroll frame version if you can buy dowels near you that will slide into a scroll frame.  It can be made to fit VERY Wide canvas.  I have people you I have taught who also have used a quilting frame and revised it.  E-mail me for information if this is not very clearly explained!  Love, Barbara

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Liz No, I worked it in hand.   The result is that the stitching is rather uneven.   People who have seen it say that this does not matter. Normally I use a frame.   The reason why I did not for this was that we did not have room for a frame in the sitting room and for my wife to move around in her wheelchair.   So we had to compromise.   But I can tell you that it is a struggle sometimes to cope with all that wool on your lap.   Just think of trying to comb a wriggly Labrador dog sitting on your lap.   The rug is not as heavy as a Labrador dog, but it feels like it. I agree, that type of frame is expensive.   This rug has probably cost me about 130 sterling.   Say about two hundred dollars.   If I had bought a suitable frame, and I only know now that I have finished what frame I would want, it would have cost three times that much and I would have been forced to go on and make another rug! Robert Did you use a frame while working on the rug?  My absolute goal is to stitch a rug.  However, my needlepoint teacher (same one who charges $1.40 for Anchor cotton embroidery floss) believes one should never use a frame but rather hug their work.  I have too many left hands and can’t imagine anything that large not on a standing frame.  But the frame at this shop costs $500+ and the canvass costs $500-$1,000.  This is an expensive hobby.  I’ve seen these rugs walked on in traffic areas of a store and they hold up beautifully.  Enjoy it!! Liz Rosenberg

Robert Tusler http://www.netcomuk.co.uk/~rtusler

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