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Hi. I'm Vickie Pavone on behalf of Expert Village. In this series we'll be talking about
the basics of cross stitching. In this segment we're going to be talking about embellishing
and personalizing your cross stitch. To embellish a cross stitch you want to use your little
charms. In this case, I have a little bell, star, there's beads, and all you're going
to do is sew them on. To sew them on you're going to come up through the back with the
thread and you're going to go right through it, and just go back down. You want to use
a cross stitch, you do not want to use a straight stitch because it'll be stronger with the
"x". You're going to go back down, and then you're going to come back up the other way
to make your "x", go back through it again, go back down and the thread won't show, it'll be behind
the embellishment. The other kind of thread will show but it doesn't matter. You're going
to go up, come up through the center, put your little embellishment through there, and we're just going to make one little stitch
in this one and it doesn't show that much. You're going to go back down about half way,
and that sews that on. The last thing is personalizing. You want to put your initials and when you
finish the picture. The easiest way is to come up behind and make straight stitches
in your initials. My initials being "V" "L" "P", I'm going to be using just the straight
back stitch that we discussed before, make a "V" an "L" and a "P". These can be anywhere
on your picture but you want to keep it on the outside of the picture that you did because
you're just personalizing it for the people you're giving it to, to remind them who made
it for them. You want to keep it tiny so it doesn't take away from the picture you just
made. And there you have it! "V", "L", "P" and embellishments.