FREE: BNIP Tear Away Waste Canvas

By using tear-away canvas (waste canvas), a design can be cross-stitched directly onto any type of fabric such as T-shirts and sweatshirts. Tear-away canvas comes in many stitch counts and looks like pettipoint canvas (type of needlepoint canvas) except every fifth thread set (one direction only) is colored blue. Tear-away canvas is not woven like needlepoint canvas but is held together with sizing (water-soluble glue). The canvas is basted (temporarily stitched) onto the fabric. The counted cross-stitch design is stitched over the tear-away canvas and the fabric. Once the counted cross-stitch stitching is completed, the basting is removed, the fabric is soaked in water to remove the sizing, and each strand of the tear-away canvas is pulled out. Only the counted cross-stitch
design remains on the front surface of the fabric.