10st..the forgotten Canvas !

When I first trained in this business...my first task was to learn how to paint on the stitch...and I was given a sample of a little purple hippo on 10st to reproduce...six copies....it almost drove me mad, because i didn't really see the canvas....
I know that many shops start new stitchers on 13st...I know because I have designed a couple of class canvases......
my first time out was a design painted on 10st...and this was hard enough to work...
over the years this canvas that was so popular when i first started in the business. It has been pushed aside...but girls, as your eyes get older...maybe you should consider this great canvas...and it goes like the wind.... you can get a lot of detail on a good sized pillow...
I designed these shaped Christmas pillows on 10st...they were simple but very festive......many custom rugs are on 10st because the larger the project the smaller the stitches become if you stretch out two yards of ten stitch on the floor...it looks like 13st And the same conception, if you spread out two yards of 13st...it looks like 18st...
If you paint on the stitch you can get a lot of detail and in turn give your old eyes a treat...lol...we are all headed that way...I already wear bi-focals...and I fear that they will only get thicker......gone are the days when I could paint well into the night...I need lots of light these days....
FYI...take a look at the photo I posted on Mr. Squiggee's blog....it was taken at a Halloween party in 1993....I found these amazing fake rub on tatoos...they were so real looking our friends thought they were real and we had lost our minds...late that night of the party when all the guests had left we jumped into a shower together with cold cream to remove the art work...forget the cold cream that was suggested on the wrapping...they said just wipe them off with a tissue.....we scrubbed them with everything , barring Comet...until all the skin around them was bright pink, with very little change....it took at least two weeks for them to fade with scrubbing every night....luckily it was cold and you could cover them up and at the last minute the bright red rose I was going to put on my cheek ,I put on my chest just below my neck line...it took three weeks to fade...lol.......this is so typical of my brainy ideas....but we were a hit and this photo of Mr. Squiggee is one of my favorites....lol...the look suited his sense of humor..twisted !