A picture embroidered with a cross: what needs to be taken into account while working?

Needlework is a great way to take your hands in useful business and at the same time pass the time. In this article, let's talk about embroidery, namely how to embroider a picture with a cross.

What do you need to have?

If you want to create a masterpiece with your own hands, you need to have a certain supply of auxiliary tools. So, to get a picture embroidered with a cross, you need to stock up the following elements:

1. Canvas. This is the fabric on which the pattern will be embroidered. It should be said that it can be completely different (dark or light, the cell on the canvas can be small or large). The choice of it depends on what you want to get in the end. If the picture is completely sewn, that is, even the background will be embroidered with a dagger, it is better to take the usual white canvas (moreover it will be cheaper), otherwise you can take a fabric of any suitable color. The most common variant of high-quality canvas is "Aida" of the 14th account.
2. Threads. This is also an important nuance, because the quality of the finished work depends on their quality. Mouline should not be cheap (in this case it is most likely to be a fake), the color should not pale from washing or burn out in the sun. You can also embroider and acrylic thread (they are much cheaper), but their color gamma is much narrower than in the mulina. And, of course, the quality is lower by several levels.
3. Needle. It can be both conventional and special, embroidered (it differs in that it does not have such a sharp tip as the usual one).
4. Scheme. A very important element, according to which embroidery will be created.
5. Embroidery frame. This auxiliary element can not be used, but there are people who are much more comfortable with it. Its purpose is to stretch the canvas for more comfortable work.
6. Frame. It will be needed at the stage of painting. Pick up the baguette you need in view of what is depicted on the canvas. It is also good to order glass with anti-reflective effect, so when looking from anywhere in the room the image will be clear, and the sun's rays will not glow.

About Sets

If there is no desire to buy all this separately (pick up the thread color, choose the canvas), you can buy everything in one set. From this the picture, embroidered with a cross, will not change at all. Moreover, often masters who prepare sets for sale, more accurately and competently select the color range of threads, with which the work will be embroidered.

What to consider

Before you sit down for embroidery, you need to decide what kind of picture should be embroidered with a cross. You should think not only about the drawing. It is important to decide how large a work should be. Large paintings, respectively, longer embroidered. Also you need to consider the number of thread colors - the more of them, the harder it is to embroider. Significantly complicate the work of embroidery details, which consist of many different shades. If there is no ready set, and all elements for embroidery are selected independently, it is also necessary to correctly calculate the canvas size (just use the tissue calculator), iron it to shrink the fabric. The edges of the canvas should also be pre-treated so that they do not crumble (for this it is sufficient to carry a brush on them, dipped in PVA glue).

rules

In order for a picture embroidered with a cross to look perfect, you must follow simple rules.

1. Forget about the nodes. The tip of the thread is hidden under the finished stitches. In this case, you can not hide dark threads under light, on the contrary - you can.
2. You can start work in different ways: from the center; From the place where the greatest number of threads of the same color; From the place where the darkest threads are used, gradually turning to lighter tones.
3. The place of work of the skilled worker should be well lit. In the evening it is better to use several fluorescent lights.
4. The working length of the thread should not exceed a maximum of 50 cm, ideally if it is 25-30 cm. So the thread will not get tangled. No wonder there is a saying: a lazy seamstress and a long thread.
5. If a large picture is embroidered, and work is not done every day, it is better to divide the canvas into squares. To do this, a special water-wash marker is useful.
6. How can you speed up the process of work, if you are preparing embroidered paintings with a cross? Schemes in this version can be crossed out. More precisely, those squares that have already been embroidered. This will greatly speed up the process of finding the place where the work was completed.
7. For those who work on the embroidery frame: after work, the picture must be taken out of the hoop so that the canvas does not stretch or deform at the fixing points.
8. Wrong picture should be ideal: you need to avoid long broaches, properly hide the tips of the threads.

This is not a complete list of all the rules, but if you follow them, you can safely say that the work will never be spoiled in the final version.

The algorithm of work on the example of a simple picture "Cherry"

So, how to embroider pictures correctly? What is the best starting point and what sequence of actions is appropriate? So, first of all you need to work with the canvas. Before embroidery it should be ironed, you can also steam it off. The fabric in this case will shrink, and the finished picture after ironing is not deformed. In this case, you need three colors: green, red and yellow. If you want, the background can be sewn white, in which case you will also need white thread. Then proceed to the process itself. On the canvas you need to find a center and start working from it. If the drawing in the center is not according to the scheme, we start the work from the nearby object (having previously counted the required number of crosses from the center of the canvas in the corresponding direction). Since it is better to embroider from top to bottom, we will first work with leaves. Then a twig is embroidered, only then - cherries. It is worth remembering that all the crosses should "lie down" in one direction, in this case the drawing will turn out to be beautiful. After the work is ready, it is necessarily ironed and framed.

How to evaluate the picture?

If the foreman does the work to order, she also needs to know how to properly evaluate her work. On what does the price depend when the cross stitch patterns are sold? And schemes (i.e., their complexity), and the number of crosses, and the color scale - all this is necessarily taken into account. There is also a definite formula that will help you calculate the cost of the work. So, for this you need to add several elements:

1. The number of crosses multiplied by the price for one (approximate calculation for today: 50-70 Russian kopecks for one embroidered cross).
2. The amount spent on materials (canvas, thread).
3. Additional data (scatter of crosses, work time, complexity of the scheme).