Beautiful cross stitch patterns with horses

Everyone wants to decorate their home with something unusual: a great alternative is something made with your own hands. Cross-stitching is a great way to spend time and find creativity, and if everything goes well, you can not only decorate the room with your products, but also please your friends and family, delighting them with gifts made with your own hands.

If you still want to find a plot for embroidery pictures, embroidery with horses is what you need.

Cross Stitching Tips

Before you start embroidering, you should prepare everything you need. Special kits are suitable for a beginner. Experienced ones can do without them. Proper preparation of the fabric is also important: it needs to be steamed and ironed, and the threads prepared.

If the floss has faded after being treated with boiling water, and there is no possibility of buying new ones, you need to add vinegar to the water and dip the threads in it - this will prevent color loss.

When working with a large pattern, you need to start with the color range of threads that are more abundant in the work, which is visually easier to find.

• The ready-made embroidery kit includes light-colored canvas, which inevitably gets dirty during the embroidery process. There is no need to worry about this. In this situation, a regular solution of laundry soap will save you: just wash the canvas in it, wring it out and dry it with a towel, and the finished product will delight you with its beauty.
• Embroider from the middle of the pattern. If possible, you can start with dark-toned threads, moving on to light shades. The part of the pattern embroidered at the last stage will not have time to become shiny and dirty.
• In a ready-made embroidery kit, the canvas is impregnated with a special composition that gives rigidity, its edges are processed, for this reason, their fraying is excluded. In another situation, the edges are subject to "curling", and the fabric will need to be starched.
• Vinyl canvas is perfect for beginners - it's stiff, the edges don't fray, and you don't need to hoop it.
• For beginners, it would be a good idea to have a water-soluble marker on hand. This simple device will help you not to get lost when embroidering the pattern, to draw the canvas according to the pattern and to immediately calculate the crosses on the canvas;

• The place for embroidery should be well lit. A lamp or floor lamp is a great option.
• Acceptable parameters for thread length are 25-30 cm, maximum - up to half a meter. Longer threads can get tangled. After cutting the required length of thread, you need to pull one out and pass it between your fingers, pulling and straightening. Then, fold it in half and thread it into the needle. Now everything is ready for work.
• The dark fabric is tucked into the hoop - this way the fabric will stretch and the holes in the canvas will be visible. In order to visually enhance the visibility of the stitching areas, a lining of light fabric is made or a flashlight is used for illumination.

• After washing and drying the finished embroidery in a terry towel, it is recommended to iron the resulting picture from the inside - this way the embroidered canvas will look convex.
• To avoid getting lost in the pattern, it is recommended to color the embroidered areas with a colored marker.

• When using paper towels, don't throw away the cardboard tubes. They are convenient for storing your finished work until you find a suitable frame for it.
• Embroidering with both hands at the same time will significantly speed up the process. But for the process to be successful, the canvas must be firmly fixed on the working machine, which is easy to make yourself.
• When embroidering large and complex patterns, with long breaks, it is recommended to mark the patterns, mark the completed work - this way you can eliminate the chance of getting lost. It would not hurt to mark with a pencil every 10 crosses. The marking is done according to the pattern - this will not allow you to spoil the product at the initial stage of work. You can embroider the work in rows.
• Before you start embroidering, you should familiarize yourself with the parameters of the needles and the names of the canvas.

• If you are embroidering several works at the same time, it would be a good idea to allocate your own needle case and personal tool for each specific work.
• When embroidering on a hoop, it is recommended to remove the work from it from time to time. This tool can leave marks that will affect the appearance of the finished product.
• Cross stitching does not allow long transitions and stretches. Otherwise, all stretches will be visible on the face. In addition, the work will look pulled together.
• If the pattern allows, it is better to lay stitches in one color scheme, and in the opposite direction, cover them with a finishing stitch.
• When carrying out preparatory activities for embroidery, it is recommended to inspect the fabric for the presence of grain and cut the canvas only in this direction. Croquis will tell you where the grain is located. The direction in which the canvas stretches the least is the grain.
• When starting embroidery, it is recommended to check the quality of the thread, its tendency to stain, especially if these threads were not bought, but given away. To do this, the threads are dipped in hot water, wrung out and laid out on a light fabric - no marks, great, you can start working.
• When you achieve mastery in "drawing" with a needle, you can use beads. The works will be no less beautiful.

Beautiful Horse Patterns

The finished embroidery is a real decoration for an apartment, house or room. In addition, cross stitch horse embroidery is a stunning gift.

Running horses

Every embroiderer who takes up embroidery of horse patterns has a lot of signs and superstitions. Among them - by embroidering running horses, the craftswoman plans to change her job to a prestigious and highly paid one. It is best to embroider a pattern when the horse is striving upward. Having such a picture will bring prosperity and a wind of change into life.

A pair of white horses

Sooner or later, every craftswoman begins to work on cross-stitching horses - this is a unique stage in the development of skill. When a horse's head is drawn on a snow-white canvas, it is so difficult to stop the creative process.

Embroidery of paired animals or birds (in particular, a pair of white horses) - accompanies a meeting with a soulmate, family well-being. It is especially good if there is embroidery with a pair of wolves in the house.

Girl with a horse

It is not recommended to embroider single people - it is better for a girl to be embroidered next to a boy, and they should hold hands. Want something unusual: embroidery of a girl with a horse is what you need. As for horses, a horse is a symbol of speed, persistence, endurance, for children - rapid development. A horse is the patron of children. This animal brings changes and well-being into life.

There are also patterns where, in addition to a girl with horses, there is a sunset. Sunsets should not be embroidered - to the sunset of your own luck.

Whether or not to believe in omens is a controversial issue, but one should be wary of them.

If you want to learn how to cross stitch, you should pay attention to ready-made kits. You can find such patterns, for example, as cross stitch of a horse, in specialized places of trade, the range of ready-made kits is wide and varied. The finished work can be used to decorate the interior or as a gift to friends.