Cross-stitch embroidery: schemes for creating bright colors
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Embroidered flowers have a special charmcross. They look so alive on embroidered paintings, pillows and tablecloths. Flowers are also depicted on women's clothing. Poppies deserve a lot of attention. These beautiful plants fascinate with their beauty and brightness. And it doesn’t matter what item your embroidery is on. And even in this technique. She looks equally fabulous.
What schemes can there be?
Cross-stitch patterns depictingPoppies, can be simple and complex, small and huge. In the process of sewing, both cross and semi-cross and even other types of stitches can be used. Add naturalness can also using the seam "back needle". Consider two types of scheme for embroidery. In one of them, the clarity of the picture is achieved using a "back needle" or backstitch seam, and in the other - all contours and borders will be indicated by the correct selection of the color shades of the threads.
Cross stitch pattern using a backstitch stitch
This diagram shows poppies.Four opened flowers and one bud, as well as a bee flying towards the flowers. The scheme is color-symbolic, which is quite convenient and will not allow you to get confused in the shades of the threads. A total of fifteen colors are used for cross stitch in this work. Two colors of these are also needed to make half-crosses. And three colors for backstitch stitching.
This painting is made using the semi-cross technique.part of the background around poppies. The rest of the background does not require stitching. A back stitch is necessary to create the contours of the petals and leaves. It is also used to create the central part of the poppy box and the contours of the bee. Since in this work different colors of threads are used to sew it, the icons used for designation are also different.
Work, as a rule, should start from the center,which is indicated here by black arrows. To sew these poppies you will need three shades of red, as well as two pinks and white. Three shades of green are used for leaves and bolls. There is a key nearby. According to him, for cross stitching such work, threads from the company “Anchor” should be used. In addition to the name of the thread company, the key indicates the size and count of the required canvas and a decoding according to the correspondence of colors and symbols. And also in how many folds to take the thread for sewing this or that section on the diagram.
Cross stitch pattern for poppies These two options will look great, for example, on pillows. The center is also indicated by arrows.
Before starting work, determine the centralpoint on your piece of fabric, align it with the one in the diagram and then start sewing. This is done so that your final picture is located strictly in the middle of the canvas and has equal margin for stretching or other manipulations along the edges. Unfortunately, there is no indication on the fabric used. But the numbers and the thread manufacturer are indicated. This cross stitch uses ten colors. Of these, half of the shades are, in one way or another, related to the color red. They are used in making poppies. That is why, and also due to the correct distribution of colors in the petal, a back stitch is not needed for this work. The background around the poppies remains unsewn. You can use white or colored canvas. At your own discretion.
Poppies can be sewn not only in redshades, but also in orange and even purple. Each version of these colors is beautiful in its own way. Most often, these plants are used when cross-stitching tablecloths and napkins. And embroidered shirts decorated with poppies look especially impressive.