My cross stitch is 11CT and it says to embroider with 3 strands of floss and 2 strands of floss to hook the edges, how does that work? And what does the hooked edge mean? How do I do it?

3 strands of thread embroidery can be done in two ways

The first is: in the eye of the needle through 3 strands of thread, not folded directly embroidery

The advantage is more convenient and trouble-free, the disadvantage is that at the same time through the hole in the cloth is 6 strands of thread, pulling the thread is more laborious to finish the cloth eye will be bigger to affect the final effect. Especially after 2-3 stitches of 3-strand embroidery, the same cloth eye and then through 6 strands of thread embroidery cloth is easy to crooked, the cloth hole will become larger. This defect can be corrected in the washing and ironing and framing

The second is: first pull out 1 strand of thread folded and cut, thread the thread into the eye of the needle and then pull the end of the thread out a little close to the eye of the needle will be two strands of thread to tie a small knot, and then threaded into a standard length of thread folded, the formation of a 3-stranded thread for cross-stitch.

The advantage is that the cloth eye will not be too large, will not affect the actual effect, the disadvantage of threading each time the knot is more time-consuming, embroidery thread folded and then embroidered to increase the number of threading times to affect the completion of the efficiency of the

2 strands of hooked edges to draw a line folded or at the same time to wear two strands of thread can be used at the same time with the 2 strands of thread to do,

Hooked edges are generally used in the backstitch stitch, in Baidu Search You can find the corresponding diagrams in Baidu by searching for "backstitch stitch"

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