Hi, I just wanted to thank you for this post. I’m laid up after major foot surgery and can’t sit up so I can’t work on my usual knitting comfortably. I was going crazy with lack-of-craft boredom until I thought of doing something on plastic canvas, a medium I hadn’t worked with since my teens, a long time ago.

I’m freewheeling my own design (a cross between a bag and a house that my preschooler can use with little people in the car), but I’d forgotten the basic stitches so this page has been very useful. I can’t get to my PC so I’m accessing this via iPod, and I can easily show the stitches to my daughter to get her input for the design. Having samples to show is incredibly useful and much appreciated.

Thanks.

Thanks for such a nice tutorial with colorful demonstration of the stitches. I was gogin through some online stitches to do on aida fabric and a few of them were so confusing with the other. The demonstrations helped me.

Thanks for the helpful pictures! Most other sites show you the stitch in progress or list them by name, but I’m kind of new to the craft, and I don’t know what a continental backstitch is or why I would need it!

I’m making a rather large play house for my son’s toy monkey, and while building the structure is easy for me, I didn’t know anything about decorating. Thanks again for your wonderful examples!