Designers create and sell original cross stitch patterns. By paying for them, you can embroider a unique picture. Services offer simple and complex color options for different skill levels. But in any case, the image is created in a single copy.
Advantages of designer cross stitch kits
Embroidery is fascinating and over time the needlewoman is ready to create entire pictures on canvas. But store-bought kits are repeated. They often contain mistakes that appear in the entire edition. Quite often, kits are missing colors, or they do not correspond to the scheme. And familiar images become boring. In such cases, they turn to designers for author's embroideries.
Advantages of the sets:
- Each image is created with great care and attention. Complex images that cannot be found anywhere else predominate. This is an opportunity to create a gift for a friend or relative with your own hands that no one else will have.
- Pictures are also created to order. Craftswomen have the opportunity to get the image they want. It can have the author's inscription. Orders for children's metrics are popular. This is a unique gift for the birth of a child.
- When ordering a designer set, you can choose the optimal size, set of colors, type of canvas, and thread.
It is also possible to transfer a photo to the canvas. But it is recommended to make such an order from trusted masters.
Author's cross stitches: who are they?
Author's embroidery patterns are created by needlewomen with extensive experience. It is recommended to make orders from proven embroiderers. A designer can create an image to order. On sites with a database of finished works, patterns are paid, costing from 300 rubles*. A ready-made set to order will be more expensive, especially if a photo needs to be developed.
It is recommended to follow several bloggers at once who have become successful on different platforms.
Whose blogs deserve attention:
- Nellie;
- Vasilinka's paths;
- English style;
- Floral fantasy;
- Blog for lovers of Japanese designers.
The search leaders are Natalia Orekhova and Alexandra Tokareva. The needlewoman Eun Jung Lee is often searched for.
If you pay attention to embroidery blogs, you can find a lot of useful information, in addition to custom patterns. They share useful tips on design and working with threads, and talk about their path. This can serve as motivation, and also help those needlewomen who are still learning from their own mistakes.
Author's patterns for cross stitch: which one to choose
The author's works, on which cross-stitching is done, can have different levels of complexity. Based on this, you should choose a designer scheme.
Tips for choosing:
- It is not recommended to take complex images right away if you have little experience. For beginners, there are options of 2-5 colors. You should not pay attention to pictures with a large variety of shades and complex color play.
- If you have enough experience to embroider from a photo, that's great. But the picture will look neater if it depicts 1-2 people.
There is a wide variety of ready-made author's schemes. These are animals, nature, geometric figures, seascapes and even text images.
Selecting fabric, needle and thread
Embroidery should be done with the right canvas, needle and thread. This determines the comfort during work, and therefore its quality.
Selection of needles:
- The needle should be specifically for embroidery. Sewing needles have a small eye and a sharp tip. This is inconvenient when working with canvas. The exception is satin stitch embroidery. A regular sewing needle will do in this case.
- The next parameter is the needle number. The higher it is, the smaller it is. Each canvas has a corresponding needle number. The tables are publicly available.
- A quality needle must be made of steel with a high carbon content.
You can embroider a beautiful picture on good quality canvas. What parameters to pay attention to:
- For paintings, use thick material. For towels and napkins, use soft canvas.
- At the beginning of the journey, it is recommended to pay attention to canvas number 14. It has large squares - this is convenient. However, the picture will not look very neat.
- Aida canvas has proven itself in terms of quality. It can be washed, ironed. It even tolerates careless handling.
Important! The higher the number, the smaller the canvas size.
Tips for choosing threads:
- There are cotton, silk and wool threads. It is recommended to choose English and German quality floss.
- There are also glow-in-the-dark threads, which are chosen to decorate the painting.
- From the Russian manufacturer, you can pay attention to Gamma. But with frequent contact, the threads fluff up.
How are original works made?
Designers develop embroidery in a special program. You can also create a simple level of complexity scheme yourself. There are many free programs in the public domain.
How to make a diagram:
- Specify the number of colors in the program with a reserve. If there are 11, specify 15. The more colors, the more realistic the picture.
- Calculate the number of crosses per 1 square centimeter. It corresponds to the number. In number 14 there are 55 crosses per 10 centimeters. If the embroidery is 10 centimeters wide, there are 55 crosses horizontally in the pattern.
- You need to open the drawing and indicate the crosses.
- Adjust contrast, brightness, tone.
- Select the thread manufacturer and specify the number of colors.
- The diagram is obtained. Next you need to zoom in to see everything. Select the display method as colored squares.
- Change the symbols used to represent colors.
- Next, you can draw all the details yourself.
The advantage of an experienced master is that he creates complex images, making them realistic. The program is not able to accurately convey the image. It is necessary to draw, which is difficult for an inexperienced user to do.
Important nuances for needlewomen
The embroidered picture may look untidy, sloppy. Or unrealistic. Therefore, you should listen to the advice of experienced needlewomen.
- It is not recommended to take dark canvas. It is difficult to work with it at the initial stages. It will not be visible where to insert the needle.
- Before starting work, it is recommended to process the edges of the canvas.
- You should take special markers to divide the canvas into squares.
- Each embroidery can be embroidered in 1 thread, 2 or 3. It is necessary to look through the key carefully.
- If the floss is more than 50 centimeters, the thread will fray.
- It is recommended to color the already embroidered crosses on the pattern with a highlighter.
- It is worth making a photocopy of the original diagram.
- There should be at least 7 centimeters left around the design to the edge of the already processed canvas.
- You should not leave long tails on the back side. They create tension and deform the fabric.
Nadezhda Antonova creates original patterns and kits. She runs her own blog on Instagram.
Author's embroidery is an opportunity to create a unique picture. Make a gift and embroider a photo of a loved one. It is recommended to order patterns and kits from trusted performers who run a blog. They create the most realistic pictures.
