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This next stitch is called a cross stitch, and one of the rules with this stitch is you
always want to go with your needle going towards the left. To the left, to the left, to the
left. So, again, if this is your hem, and this is the inside, and this is the outside,
then you want to start by putting your needle inside of the fold of the hem. There is where
you're going to start. And then, like I was telling you before, pick up just a couple
of threads, moving your needle to the left, and then moving down and pick up a couple
of threads here--or you can kind of go into that fold, you can pick up more threads. And
then you pick up a couple of threads going up here, and then moving down, pick up a couple
of threads down the hem. Then again, pick up a couple of threads up here. Moving down.
Can you move your hand a little? Yeah, mm-hmm. And then pick up a couple threads, and then
it's just that repeat. So you're going to have--it's going to zigzag a bit, and this
is good because it offers a little bit of flexibility. You know, with the zigzag you
have room for the fabric to stretch a bit.