Nowadays, there are a lot of activities that you can do and create beauty for your own use or to please your loved ones. One of the types of handicrafts is cross stitching. Poppy is a fiery flower that looks great. Even if it is beadwork, poppies are good here too.
Tools
The most popular embroidery now is "Poppies" cross stitch. For such work, you need to have a special needle, a certain fabric and threads. Also, everything depends on the pattern. You need to choose the flowers and their size. These flowers look very advantageous on black fabric. But sewing on it is quite difficult. Therefore, for a beginner, it is better to use white fabric. Most often, poppies are sewn in a bouquet, but it is possible to create them in the field. But you can use your imagination. To start working, you need to calculate the number of crosses and then transfer them to the fabric.
Cross stitch
In this work, you need to use more red and green. It is better to start working from the bottom and gradually move up. You should not work by color, you can easily mix everything up. The selection of threads is carried out at the discretion of the craftswoman. It is better to stitch the fabric on the sides to prevent unraveling. Poppies look more advantageous when unraveled.
First, you need to take all the colors and put them on a separate sheet to determine the color scheme.
It is better to work so that there are no holes left, and there are as few knots on the back side as possible. A professional does embroidery so that it looks the same on both sides. This is a rather long process, but the result is worth it.
Attention! You can come up with schemes for work yourself. You can also find a lot of options on the Internet. But there is also an option to find in magazines, an incredible number of which are available in stores and stalls.
Interesting ideas
Such a wonderful model can be used to decorate any home interior items or some wardrobe items. Poppies look especially interesting on pillows and tablecloths. Cross-stitched, they look alive. In the process of work, both a cross and a half-cross and other types of stitch are used. For naturalness, you can use the back stitch. Naturalness is achieved precisely with this stitch. But the outline must be marked with color.
The cross stitch triptych "Poppies" is an incredible picture that will help you take a new look at such works. A triptych is several pictures of different sizes that together create one large picture. This is a special kind of art that will give any, even boring, image uniqueness and chic. This is a popular type of creation that is used not only in cross stitch.
Before starting work, you need to determine the central point on the fabric, and then compare it with the point on the drawing. You can start sewing. You need to do this so that the finished work is exactly in the middle of the canvas. Also so that the work has an equal reserve for stretching or other actions along the edges.
Poppy cross stitch patterns for pillows
There are many patterns specifically for pillows. These flowers will fit into any interior and will perfectly decorate and create coziness in the apartment. Patterns with one large poppy are ideal for small pillows, but the petals need to be embroidered in several shades. You can also create several buds on the stem all over the pillow. A bouquet with poppies looks very bright and original. A pattern with several poppies is possible: a combination of blossoming poppies with still emerging buds. You should choose the pattern that you like best and start working. But it is better to create something of your own. Fantasy is limitless, so it is worth using it.
Fashionable cross stitch - poppies in a vase
This type of embroidery is very popular among cross stitch lovers. As a rule, it results in a vertically elongated picture. Such masterpieces are often placed in the kitchen. There they fit in perfectly.
But even among the pillows embroidered with a cross, you can often see something similar. The combination of chamomile and poppy in a vase looks interesting. It is better to choose a plain and light background.
If you embroider them in a vase on a plain pencil dress, the item will sparkle in a new way, an ordinary dress will become an exquisite item and demonstrate refined taste. A small vase with poppies will make a light-colored blouse a charming elegant item. Such embroidery should be placed at the bottom of the blouse, shifting it to any edge.
Such masterpieces will not leave anyone indifferent. It is worth trying to work in this direction of handicrafts.
Cross stitch pattern from a picture
Nowadays, everything is very simple. To create a scheme that is selected for work, it is necessary to transfer the image into electronic form.
Then go to the World Wide Web, find a program, upload an image and you will get a cross stitch pattern. Print it and it is ready. You can edit the moments that may confuse you. This applies to both the color palette and the image itself. Therefore, it is not difficult to create, you need to have desire.
With the advent of such technologies, absolutely everything became possible. Previously, such schemes were calculated independently. This took a lot of time, and the result was achieved through trial and error.
Thanks to these programs, it became possible to create a scheme of a familiar person with poppies. This flower will decorate any picture, and it is especially pleasant to see a familiar face. Portraits with poppies are a very good gift.
Embroidery of poppies with beads
Bead embroidery is no less popular. Most of the counters are occupied by various types of beads. Options made with beads are especially attractive. Such pictures shimmer and shine in the sunlight.
California poppies are also very popular in art.
For bead embroidery, you need to thread the needle to the front side, string the beads and go diagonally to the back. Then make a vertical stitch and bring the needle back. Make the next stitch. The difference from cross stitching is that here you need to embroider a row, and the color is determined not by threads, but by beads.
The following set of tools is required:
- Scheme,
- beads of the desired colors and shades,
- colored canvas,
- canvas of the size of the future masterpiece and a needle for bead embroidery.
There are different ways of attaching beads. Monastic - separate stitches diagonally hold the beads. Arched - several beads are attached to the base, the needle is passed through the latter. Attached - beads are put on a thread, then short stitches are made between the beads.
Attention! It is better to draw any diagram with a pencil, a pen does not erase. It will be difficult to correct.
From the above, we can conclude that creating is not difficult. You can work with a cross, or you can use beads. Masterpieces will look great in any form. Each is beautiful in its own way. If you have perseverance, time and desire, then such work will bring a lot of pleasure. And if you start, then it is difficult to stop. The work is addictive.
If your wardrobe is filled with a regular black dress, you should use embroidery. A black dress with "Poppies" flower embroidery will be your favorite item. As mentioned earlier, poppies look especially beautiful on black. Therefore, the dress will sparkle in a new way. Embroidery is an interesting and useful activity. A poppy embroidered on satin stitch will decorate any interior item.
To create such pictures you don't need any special knowledge or skills. You won't need any special expenses either. You can take any canvas for the base, even find it in the house. A needle, threads and beads are available in any handicraft store. The most valuable things are those that are created by yourself with your own hands.
