I love this--Ive always stitched my lines using the backstitch, but this would be so much faster--and less expensive on my thread allowance, LOL! Thanks so much!
edit--I had to come back and tell you all that I just ordered a yard of pre-printed aida (which has the lines already in it, which will wash out) and am very excited for it to come to me all the way from China!
Its 14 count, and Im thinking with such a large piece I might just have to tackle a HAED chart to do this great fabric justice! Also, I wanted to let you all know, as it was mentioned above, that I ran across
some water soluble pencils in the local quilt shop--I think they would work wonderfully for this excercise!
Im not so sure about this one, I used pencil once on a very large very complicated piece of work, and after one month or so when I had finished the piece and was ready to wash it I realised that the pencil just refused to come off!
ended up painstakingly going over it with a baby toothbrush and even then the marks were still faintly there....the threads got rather worn in the process and the beautiful shine was lost somewhat...
I would recommend the water soluble pen using the same technique as above, much clearer and washes out like a dream!
I use a watersolubale pen and it works good. The only thing is that it fades oer time and sometime you hae to regrid if you cant see the ery faint line that it leaves
chekccard