Practically every woman has her own hobby. Someone likes to knit with knitting needles, someone crochets, someone sews beautifully, and someone can not be without embroidery. Embroidery can be different: smooth, ribbons, beads, but most often it's embroidered with a cross.
A little about embroidery
Cross-stitch embroidery is very old handicraft, especially in noble families. Indeed, and what else to occupy themselves young ladies, how not embroidered. Nothing complicated in this. The cross is the easiest way to embroider. But nevertheless, sitting down on a needle and embroidery, it is necessary to have not so much free time, as much patience, perseverance and ability to bring work to the end. For a needle recommend sitting down only in a good mood, but still some people embroidering can calm nerves. Engage in embroidery is very exciting, starting the first stitch, you completely forget about time. You can embroider a cross both on ordinary fabrics and on a special canvas. Threads, too, take different. It can be floss, silk, wool. Patterns and patterns can be found in any store for needlework. You can buy and embroidery kits, which will allow you not to waste time searching for the right materials. You just need to fix the canvas in the embroidery frame. But if you want something unusual, unique, you can just pick up a photo or a picture and use the special program to arrange the colors. The program itself will make a scheme of the flower and will select shades in the quantity you have set.
How to embroider flowers
The very first rule when embroidering flowers is to have skills. That is, before you tackle a technically complex flower, such as a rose, you first need to practice a little on simple models. So you will not only fill your hand, but also choose a convenient embroidery technique for yourself.
Embroidery Method
You can embroider flowers in two ways:
- To embroider in rows. This method is complicated. The fact is that you have to either cut the thread and fix it almost after each cross, or thread different threads into the needles and then in the process of embroidering just change the thread with the needles, making broaches between the crosses. But this is very tiring, and the threads can get confused.
- Embroider by color. This means that first you embroider a section of one color with the appropriate shade of threads, and then take a thread of a different color and take over another section. This method is simple, the only thing - it requires attention, in order to correctly arrange the crosses and do not lose count.
Rules for embroidering flowers
There are a couple of rules that must be observed, no matter what you embroider:
- If you decide to embroider in the second way, then you need to remember that embroidery, including embroidery of flowers, you need to start with the color that prevails. The last to embroider the sites with the least number of crosses. Under such a scheme it is easier to hide the ends of strings of single crosses.
- Begin to embroider necessarily with dark shades, gradually converging on neutral colors. If you do the opposite, you can just smudge the light, already embroidered shades dark and the work will look messy and dirty.
Embroidery of bouquets
Often needlewomen stop their choice on bouquets. And these models are very complex. The fact is that the bouquets consist of several flowers. Some of them are in the foreground, and the other florets are pushed into the background, as an addition to the main species. Also there are different leaves, stems. And all that was created by the author in the picture, you must be able to transfer to the canvas. And all this must be thought through in advance, and not in the process of work. In bouquets, first embroider flowers with accent, making them bright and unique, clearly "drawing" each petal. Then embroider the flowers of the second plan, making them less noticeable than the main flowers, for example, making the paler. At the very end, they take up stems. Usually they are stitched using green, silvery threads. When the picture is ready, make the final touches as necessary - make a contour or fasten beads, butterflies.
Embroidery of flowers is very difficult work, but nevertheless, the result will delight you with its beauty and grace.