When visiting an exhibition of paintings embroidered with a cross, the head does not fit as with conventional threads, needles and a piece of canvas to make such a beauty. For beginners who want to do needlework, it will be interesting to know how to properly embroider a cross by yourself. This is a labor-intensive process, but cross-stitched pictures and icons, the schemes of which can be found on the Web and in specialized publications, will make you proud of yourself. Those who begin to join in needlework, it is worth training, embroidering with a cross pictures of special sets that differ in the level of complexity. Shall we try?
We will need:
- needle;
- canvas;
- thread of different colors;
- or a single set for embroidery, which has everything we need.
- Let's get ready for work. This instruction will tell you how to learn how to embroider a cross pattern correctly. First, we determine the center of embroidery, folding the canvas four times. Note that the ready-made embroidery size chart does not display. The cell on the above diagram is a square on your canvas. If the cage is empty, then you do not need to embroider it.
- One thread of the string of mulina consists of six strings. In order not to overspend the thread and not to weight the drawing, use the number of threads indicated in the set.
- It is more convenient to embroider canvas from the center, moving to its edges. First, embroider the main stitches and semi-roots, and then add lower stitches, French knots, etc. The work thread should be fixed from the underside under the first few stitches. After each finished fragment, the length of the thread must be finished, but without nodules, so that the embroidery looks even.
- 4. It is more practical to carry out embroidery in horizontal rows, applying lower stitches in one direction, and then return to the upper ones. If the order of stitching is observed, then the work will be neat. Watch for a uniform tension of the thread.
- Stretches, the length of which is more than three centimeters, spoiling the embroidery, so it is necessary to cut the thread and fix it again in the right place. Have you made a mistake? Dissolve the stitches only with a needle, because with scissors you will damage the canvas.
- Lastly, we make additional stitches over the crosses. The seam "line" is used to make the details that give expressiveness to the embroidery. They are indicated in the diagram in thin lines. These stitches are sewn with the back needle. And it is better to break long stitches into a few and a half centimeters.
- We use the same method to make a stalk suture. At the same time, the working thread must be kept on one side. If you change the direction of the thread, the structure of the stalk will be broken. The stitch value must be the same.
- French knots are made as follows: insert a needle from the wrong side, wrap around one or two turns of thread around it, stretch it and insert it on the wrong side, retreating 2 mm from the outgoing thread. We tighten the bundle, pressing a finger.
- To attach the beads, we thread the needle into the needle, we deduce it on the front side of the canvas. We string the bead, lower it to the canvas. We deduce a needle in the same point on the wrong side and attach a bead.
When the embroidery is ready, it should be slightly stretched in a soapy warm solution. Carefully wring out, wrap in a towel and let it dry out in a straightened form. Slightly wet work should be ironed from the wrong side. Do not press on the iron so that the crosses do not lose their bulges.
Large and small pictures, embroidered with a cross, look great in a frame frame, the choice of which is a whole art. If you are not sure that you can correctly choose the size, color, style, texture of the frame, trust professionals in the baguette workshop.
Having mastered the basics, you will no longer be surprised how to embroider a portrait with a cross, an icon or a landscape.