How to embroider a cross

Psychologists say that a successfully selected hobby brings harmony and peacefulness to our lives. It doesn’t matter what exactly you like to do in your free time - to jump with a parachute, engage in volunteering or study the Japanese language - the main thing is that this brings you real pleasure.

How to embroider a cross: peace and joy in every stitch

Today we want to invite you to the amazing world of embroidery and tell you how to embroider a cross. Those who call the measured dance of needles on fabric boring occupation most often have no idea about the specifics of embroidery art. In fact, you can not only relax after a hard day's work, but also realize your creative beginning in the process of creating the beautiful. This will confirm every needlewoman. And what euphoria and pride overflows the soul at the sight of finished work, cannot be conveyed in words! The embroidered paintings with a cross are unique works of art, which everyone can create.

It is no coincidence that the feeling of joy, rest and satisfaction is no coincidence. Doctors argue that classes related to work at the fingertips stimulate active points that accelerate the production of female hormones responsible for balance, femininity and good mood. Embroidery is an excellent prevention of neuropsychiatric disorders. The following photos will be convinced of how great to embroider a cross.

We argue that you can’t wait to learn to embroider a cross?

How to embroider a cross: preparation for work

Embroidery with a cross, the easier, the more thoroughly you will prepare everything you need for this lesson.

How to embroider a cross: choosing a plot of embroidery

What a picture to embroider, everyone’s personal business. Someone is crazy about butterflies, and someone likes a shell and a sea surf. However, here is almost the most common mistake of beginners, and now you will understand which one. If you have a very modest embroidery experience or not at all, try to objectively evaluate your capabilities. Not always an unbridled desire to turn the mountains corresponds to the real abilities of the needlewoman. So unfinished work appears, unfair self -criticism and the desire to embroider disappears.

In order not to be disappointed in your favorite hobby, keep in mind that the scheme of the winter forest, wildflowers or portrait/icons may contain more than 30 - 35 shades of thread, and this can become an unbearable burden for inexperienced embroiderers.

How to embroider a cross, it’s easier to understand when working on an unpretentious geometric pattern or a simple image of kittens (birds, “cartoons”, etc.), a simple embroidery scheme is convenient to “fill” the hand: apply even neat stitches, cleverly jump From one row to the other, select shades to your taste. Simple schemes consist, as a rule, of 6 - 9 colors, which in the process can be replaced by one or another shade of their own free will. A simple picture is created in a few days, and embroidery will bring the needlewoman much more pleasure than a long painstaking work on a large -scale canvas.

Choose a plot, choose threads of certain colors and shades for its design by embroidery with experience, the same who still didn’t figure out how to embroider a cross, it is better to buy a set for embroidery, where there is everything you need: a clear illustration of the finished work, a scheme available to a newcomer , canvas of the desired size and the necessary set of threads. This is an ideal option to embroider a cross for beginners was easy and exciting.

If you are not used to following the path of the least resistance and decided to independently choose the materials for your already available scheme of embroidery, we will tell you what to look for in the process of preparing to work on the plot.

How to embroider with a cross: choosing fabric for embroidery

A special fabric-base for embroidery of crosses is called a canvas. Its canvas consists of an equal number of threads in width and height, which are intertwined into clear and uniform squares - embroidered crosses are the same and neat.

The most popular brand of fabric for embroidery is called Canvas Aida, which is produced by the world -famous German company Zweigart. The canvas of the following companies is no less popular: DMC, Rico (France), Panna, Riolis (Russia), Lecien (Japan).

The size of the canvas cells determines how dense the finished embroidery will be. Depending on the size of the cells, the canvas is divided into numbers. So, large cells of Aida No. 8 are designed specifically for children and beginner needlewomen, and on the canvas of AIDA No. 20 they create truly jewelry embroidery, which is decorated with miniature bookmarks for books, brooches and medallions. The most common and convenient is the canvas of AIDA No. 14. It is suitable for reproducing simple and complex paintings.

Any canvas can be successfully replaced by an uncomplicated linen canvas - it is also easily distinguishable by the interweaving of threads. A white or gray fabric will become an ideal background for any plot embroidered with different shades of threads. From the linen canvas, beautiful embroidered tablecloths, napkins, curtains, tacks and stands for hot ones are obtained.

How to embroider a cross: choosing threads for embroidery

The general appearance of the finished picture undoubtedly depends not only on the fabric on which it was created, but also on the quality of the threads with which its crosses were made.

Today's assortment of fingers for embroidery, or muline is truly huge. The thread can be 100% natural: linen, hemp, cotton, silk, woolen. But from the muline of synthetic or mixed production, excellent embroidered work is also obtained.

High -quality filament for embroidery, have a uniform texture without knots and seals with a plain deep color along the entire length. Each Muline's motorcycle has an individual marking - this number is almost always indicated in the schemes for embroidery, so that it is easier for a needlewoman to choose the necessary color.

When buying a muline, be sure to pay attention to the length of the thread in a skein. This must be done for purely practical considerations. For the first time embroidering the picture, you will notice that the color of one thread will be used to create some 10-15 crosses, while a mulin of a different color will need ten times more, since the shade or color of this thread will be the main thing in the composition. Therefore, the threads involved in the work at a minimum need to be bought in skeins with the smallest footage, and the main thread is purchased with a margin just in case. A 7 m long -folded thread is a standard muline coil. On sale you can also find skeins of threads of 3.5 and 10 m.

Gamma is one of the most popular brands of fingers for embroidery today. There is something to respect the manufacturer: the muline made from Egyptian cotton on the equipment of the Japanese assembly, a uniform texture and an amazing rich color that is not afraid of washing. Ready -made embroidery sets are most often equipped with a “gamma”.

Muline (Germany) and DMC (France) are worthy of competition “Gamma”. These threads are not tangled and are not twisted during operation, stained and do not burn out under direct sunlight. However, such pleasure is more expensive than domestic goods.

The organization of storage of the remaining Muline remaining after the completion of work is a subtle business. It is most convenient to wrap the threads on dense cardboard bobbins indicating the number of each color.

How to embroider with a cross: selection of embroidery needles

On thin fabric, they work with a thin needle with a round ear, then the punctures on the canvas are almost imperceptible, and the embroidery looks very elegant and accurately. For embroidery on dense fabric, thick needles are used with a blunt tip and a long ear.

It is most convenient to make stitches with a special tapestry for embroidery: it has a wide eye and a dull tip, which, unlike acute, will not damage the finished crosses or the canvas itself. Such a needle is easy to push out the filaments of the canvas and stretch through them the muline. You will evaluate a wide eye, if during work you will often need to change the color - the thread will stand in such a needle without problems.

In order to once and for all to solve the question of the needles for embroidery, you should buy a ready -made set with needles of different sizes. Most often, needles No. 22, 24, 26 and 28 not more than 3 cm in length are used in the work.

The nitkovo detector - a wire loop on the handle, will come in handy for children and people with poor vision so as not to spend precious time on countless attempts to put a thread into a needle.

How to embroider with a cross: choosing highlights for embroidery

To make the embroidery process more comfortable and less expensive in time, many needlewomen use plastic or wooden hoops. This is most often round, and sometimes oval hoops, slightly different in size from each other. Recently, they produce hooks equipped with a special lock to adjust the size of the upper hoop on the canvas easier. The fabric inserted and fixed into the hooks is well pulled and does not crush when working.

For a small or very miniature segment of the canvas, round hoops are suitable, and with large canvases it is more convenient to work on large rectangular heels. Their design is improved by a special stand, which allows you to free the left hand of the embroidery and thereby accelerate the embroidery process.

Those who treat embroidery are very seriously working on an embroidered machine. The device holds the fabric tightly and allows the craftswoman to see the entire working surface of the canvas - so you can immediately note the most problematic places in the composition and avoid probable errors.

Beginners, of course, can do without heels, pulling the canvas with the fingers of the left hand. However, this technique is suitable only for small pictures that are embroidered in a matter of days. If embroidery carries you seriously, sooner or later you will certainly think about buying Pieces.

How to embroider a cross: organization of a workplace

Before you start embroidering with a cross, take measures that will protect you from the curvature of the spine and the development of myopia. Yes, yes, you correctly understood: the lack of suitable conditions for occupying your favorite hobby can cause tangible harm to your health. With love, an organized workplace is the key to the lack of problems with the neck, back, eyes and hands.

  The light should fall on the embroidery on the left side. Naturally, it is better to embroider in the daytime of the day, but sometimes it is possible to allocate a couple of free hours for your favorite hobby only in the evening, so you need to get a high -quality table lamp.

The longer you embroider, the more you will “grow” with a muline with skeins, the remains of threads, patterns, thimbles and other necessary trifles. It is most convenient to store all this wealth in special organizers for tools and threads. The organizer will successfully replace several cardboard boxes or medium -sized caskets, which are convenient to keep at hand.

Follow your pose during embroidery: the shoulders should be in a detailed position, the chest is free, not clamped, the body is slightly tilted forward. These simple rules will protect you from stoop. The distance between embroidery and eyes should not exceed 25 - 30 cm.

How to embroider a cross: embroidery process

How to embroider a cross: we learn to understand the scheme

The scheme is a detailed guide to action. This is a schematic image of the picture you like, different into small squares. Each square is one embroidered cross on a canvas. The squares in the diagram are painted with flowers corresponding to a certain color of the threads. Sometimes squares of black and white schemes are filled with various symbols that mean certain shades and colors of the muline. Often, squares for embroidery are simultaneously decorated with both color and symbols - for sophistication.

Learning to embroider a cross according to the scheme is not at all difficult - only a little time and perseverance will need. The whole scheme is divided into large squares (10 × 10 cells), so it is very easy to mark the fabric, preparing it for embroidery. It is also convenient that you can quickly compare the corresponding areas of work on the canvas and paper.

Starting embroidery, carefully study the symbols and numbers of the threads that correspond to them. Each Muline's motorcycle, as you remember, is assigned an individual number. In no way marked, empty squares in the scheme mean that nothing needs to be embroidered in these places on the canvas.

The middle of the scheme and the middle of the canvas is the traditional start of work and the guarantee that the embroidered picture will be in its place, namely, strictly in the middle of the canvas. You will warn the annoying errors in the calculations in advance, if you indicate the arrow of the arrow with a pencil or a special marker, indicating the middle of each side of the composition, and then determine the center of the picture at the place of their horizontal and vertical intersection.

How to embroider a cross: prepare a canvas for embroidery

Canvas has one annoying drawback: it blooms around the edges during operation. To avoid this, the fabric is hung up using the seam “over the edge” or, even easier, process its edges with PVA glue, which easily lags behind when washing the finished embroidery in warm water.

At the beginning of the work, the canvas is marked in accordance with the scheme so that all the elements of the image on paper and the already embroidered pattern come together in the right places. It is most convenient to draw the fabric with squares of 10 by 10 cells.

How to embroider a cross: we master a simple counting cross

All preparations are behind, and now the matter remains small: to put the beginning of a beautiful embroidered picture with the first stitches on the canvas. In the entire history of its existence, the embroidery was replenished with more than 30 types of crosses, but the most popular was and remains an ordinary cross that is appreciated for the simplicity of execution and versatility - on its basis it can be created both the most primitive pictures and large -scale colorful canvases.

A simple cross is 2 inclined stitches: raise the needle from the bottom through the hole in the canvas, put the diagonal stitch on the fabric and lower the needle into the opposite hole on the canvas.

It is important! Make sure that the upper stitches of the crosses are embroidered with an inclination in one direction, otherwise the crosses laid down "aton -free" will give the finished work a sloppy look.

If you sat down for embroidery for the first time in your life, fear of failure will help to overcome a special “training” shred can, where you can “fill” your hand, making several rows of crosses. By their quality, you can evaluate the strength of the thread tension, the general view of embroidered strips and, having made certain conclusions, transfer the adjusted crosses to the “final” version of the canvas.

In one work, you can make stitches in 2 ways - Danish and traditional. Each of them is convenient in its own way.

Creating a number of crosses in a traditional way, each cross is embroidered completely (2 inclined stitches are stretched out at once) and only then go further. This embroidery technique is suitable for decorating a small sector or a separate strip of crosses.

If the thread of the same color has to be embroidered with a large section on the canvas, it is better to do this by the Danish way: first stretch the inclined stitches in one direction (for example, from left to right), and then do the same in the opposite direction. In this technique, you can create crosses in any direction: from top to bottom or bottom up, diagonally or from left to right.

To skip a small number of squares on the fabric, the thread can be pulled along the inside of the fabric and removed in the right place. Just keep in mind that the size of such “lengths” should not exceed 2 - 3 cm, otherwise they will pull the fabric from the inside and interfere with the work, and the appearance of the wrong side will suffer greatly.

How to embroider a cross: fixing the thread at the beginning and at the end of the work

In order to fix a single thread at the beginning of embroidery, take the needle in the canvas from its front side so that the tail of the muline remains outside. You will hide it under the stitches, making the first 2 to 3 crosses. Cut the “tail” of the thread.

The second way is convenient to fix the thread at the beginning of work if you embroider in 2 or 4 threads (even quantity). Fold the thread in half and pass its free "tails" into the needle. When you stretch out a needle with a thread from the bottom of the canvas outward in the lower left corner of the future cross, a loop will remain on the wrong side. Now make a stitch by stretching a needle with a thread into the right upper corner of the square on the canvas to enter the needle into the loop on the inside. Gently tighten the thread. Everything is the invisible knot ready.

To fix the thread at the end of the work, carefully stretch it under 3 to 4 crosses on the back of the embroidery. For strength, wrap it around 1 - 2 stitches. Do not make too long breaks that will certainly affect the front side of the finished product.

How to embroider a cross: designing finished work and care for it

How to embroider a cross, we found out. Now let's talk about how to decorate your creation with dignity and how to treat it, so that it retains its original appearance for a long time.

Remember that the color of the frame must certainly be in harmony with the general color scheme of the embroidered picture and be in the same tonality with a dominant shade in embroidery.

You can cancel miniature work yourself by enclosing them in the original small frames for photos. By the way, wooden frames can be additionally decorated with coffee beams, shells, buttons and other improvised trifles. Just do not overdo it, otherwise the embroidered picture will not be the main element of the decor, but the background for an unusual frame.

Cross -embroidered icons, rich landscapes, still lifes and other complex paintings “bloom” in strict wooden frames that can be ordered in a baguette workshop.

Before imprisoned, it must be refreshed under the glass. To do this, carefully wash the embroidery in warm water with the addition of soap chips and a few drops of vinegar. When the fabric dries, treat it with a cotton swab with a cotton swab with a cotton swab, and then reward through gauze with a hot iron.

For subsequent washes from the frame, embroidery must be removed as it is polluted/dusting. The fabric is cleaned in the same way as with the first washing: soak in warm soap-and-oxide water for a while. Large embroidered work is put in a special bag for cereal washing and put a washing machine for delicate mode.

Wet embroidery, even very large, cannot be twisted! After washing, the canvas is neatly laid on a clean terry towel, loosely twisted and remember with the hands. When part of the moisture from the embroidery “picks” the towel, the work is carefully ironed from the inside with a hot iron through the thin fabric.

How to embroider a cross: tricks and secrets

1. As already noted, according to the unspoken tradition, they begin to embroider from the middle of the scheme. But if there is an opportunity to immediately start working with dark threads, and go to light areas later, certainly use it. So you will not have time to wipe and stain the bright sectors of the picture during long embroidery.
2. If you decide to try your strength in embroidery for the first time, give preference to the vinyl canvas.  It is quite dense and rigid, so you will not need the hooks and the edges of the fabric will not require additional processing.
3. The most comfortable length of the working thread is not more than 50 cm. In the old days of the craftswomen, the desired segment was determined, applying the thread to the arm - from the wrist to the elbow.
4. Take a rule to make a photocopy of the embroidery work scheme. On photocopy, you can delete the “worked out” crosses with a pencil: so you will never take out the excess and will not lose the place where you stopped last time.
5. Do not throw away the round base from paper kitchen towels: it is convenient to wind it up and store the finished embroidery until you insert it into the frame. Put the canvas on soft paper or thin fabric with the face down and wrap it on a cardboard tube.
6. In the breaks between the work, do not work the needle into the edge of the canvas, as it will stretch the fabric and the wide hole will be very noticeable on the canvas.
7. If you bought the threads of an unknown manufacturer, and you have great doubts about the resistance of their coloring, conduct a simple experiment. Muline lower the small samples in hot water for several minutes, and then squeeze them and put them on a white fabric. If not bright matter does not have traces of muline, the threads are suitable for embroidery.
8. If you, embroidering, missed 1 - 2 crosses (but no more!) By inattention, do not upset strongly and do not rush to open up the finished stitches. As a rule, no one notices such misses, since they do not spoil the general view of the finished picture.
9. You can embroider a cross anywhere: on a plastic canvas, pillowcases, clothes and even on egg scarlet fever. Just let go of the imagination into a free flight and create!

No matter how much you were explained how to embroider a cross, you will not understand this with all the clarity until you yourself pick up a needle with a thread and a canvas. Mastery will come with time - there would be a desire. In the end, the relations of the needle on the fabric will reach automatism, and you can finally understand why embroidery is appreciated for a soothing and relaxing effect, since you yourself will feel its effect on yourself. Creative success to you!

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