Cross Stitch: scheme for the kitchen

Trendy design interiors look rich and stylish, but a pretty picture in a magazine, transferred to a family kitchen, for some reason, does not create a feeling of comfort. Perhaps it is simply not enough soul. This drawback is easy to fix, if you put a little of its heat in a touching Handmade. Familiar with needle and thread? Then you the strength to create a small masterpiece and decorate the kitchen embroidery cross. This is the simplest technique that future mistresses taught at school: only need to remember.

What are we going to decorate?

Depending on the width and orientation schemes, embroidery can be decorated textile products of any size. In the kitchen, under the graceful patterns and asks:

• napkins;
• tablecloths;
• potholders and apron;
• towels;
• curtains.

Skilled embroiderers do not stop and create a whole picture, which then harmoniously fit into the interior of the kitchen. The finished work is simply inserted into a frame and hang on the wall.

What is needed for the work?

Train cross stitching better on specially acquired through - the canvas. Its weave allows us to consider each cell well and make sure the stitches, because the scheme is also conditional broken net. The canvas can have different weaving density, depending on where it is assigned a number (number of cells per 1 sq. inch). Usually use basis with №14 on №18, but the larger the cell, the thicker need to add up the thread.

In extreme cases, on the blank canvas you can do with your hands. Determine the appropriate size of the crosses, for example, three weaving thread. Thereafter, a few millimeters from the edge of the needle hook the fourth and release its end. Continue to pull out the "extra" string until it is completely not pull it out. So cleaned every fourth longitudinal and transverse row. Canvas is ready - now you can do the embroidery on the scheme, without fear that the stitches "run away" in different directions. As soon as the little nabete hand embroider you can have any suitable fabric.

Besides the basics, prepare:

• needles for embroidery - short and blunt;
• nitkovdevatel;
• the fibers themselves - mercerized silk, sewing, wool, or c / b in three of addition;
• hoop.

embroidery cross schemes can be found on the Internet or to come up with themselves. The handicraft shops are sold whole sets with printed pattern on canvas and set the desired color floss - for exercise is ideal.

Kitchen is best to choose ornaments, images of flowers and fruit or whole lifes. Lovely will look "rustic" embroidery with pets or birds.

Basic techniques and tricks

Cross Stitch is tight - all ranks should be combined into a single pattern without gaps (unless otherwise provided scheme). Each pair of crosses in contact with each other at both ends, that is necessary to get the needle twice in one lumen. To perform a simple series of one thread, you can use these techniques of embroidery:

• Professionals make the desired number of stitches in one diagonal direction, and "on the way back" perpendicular stitches form crosses.
• If there is little experience, it is possible to embroider each cell as a whole, and for the continuation of a series of a needle to enter at the beginning of the second stitch.

The technology is simple, but it must strictly comply. At least in order to underside of the fabric also looked carefully, and not turned into a chaotic set of knots and weave.

Ready cross pattern will look smooth and beautiful, if the entire pattern is sewn in the same direction.

We turn to the practice

To cross embroidery experience brought benefit and pleasure, you need visible results. Turn on trial in a small piece of canvas touching napkin. On large canvases threaten not immediately necessary, to a few days not to lose interest in the work. Suffice it to take a shred size of a lady's handkerchief.

Select the pattern from a set of desired cross schemes take appropriate thread colors and start the embroidery.

The procedure works:

1. Smooth canvas and stretch it on the embroidery frame.
2. If the picture is the corner, it is better to shift the start of 1-5 cm from the edge, so you could draw it carefully.
3. Threaded into a thread eye of the needle to fix the canvas (node ​​as by sewing, tying not). Just double-stretch the needle through several thread base to the top of the left loop, and only through it prodernut needle and floss and tighten tight.
4. Embroider scheme, counting every cross and cell.
5. When the thread is shortened so that further work would be inconvenient to fix it the same "bundle" that at the beginning of the work.

Neaten edges can be any decorative seam, hem or just fluff, making a short fringe. The finished cloth embroidered wash hands in warm salt water to colored threads do not shed, straighten and dry on a towel.