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If you click on the cross stitch guild website, you should go to that website, assuming you are logged onto the internet. Then put the tip of the needle between the two threads right where they come through the fabric so that the needle is pointing in the. You now know why you should use a railroad stitch, lets see how you actually do it. See all formats and editions hide other formats and editions.
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