Very soon one of the most important Orthodox holidays - Easter will come. This is a spring holiday in memory of the resurrection of Christ, and Easter is considered the beginning of this warm spring.
Preparation for this bright holiday is usually started in advance. Time is short, but we will have time to make one of the festive attributes - Easter embroidery.
In the master class, we show how to make the embroidery cross on the Easter egg.
How to embroider a Easter egg?
So, let's start working on embroidery:
1. We wash the egg well under warm water. After a thick and sharp needle pierce two holes in the shell - a tiny one on the sharp part and a little more on the blunt. Increase the size of the hole can be with the help of manicure scissors, but this work is almost a jeweler, you need extreme accuracy.
2. Pull the needle inside and chop the yolk. Then we take clean dishes and pour the contents of the egg into it. If it goes bad - we bring it to the lips and blow it into a small hole - the protein with the yolk will easily pop out. To future work does not smell, well washed and dried shell.
3. Remove from the egg the measurements in height and width using a tape measure or meter. At us the size about 8х14 centimeters has turned out.
4. Divide the width in half and cut out of a thin napkin rectangle measuring 8x7 centimeters. We attach it to the egg and, wetting the fingers with water, transfer the droplets onto the paper so that it, when wet, evenly settles in shape. We postpone the work until it dries.
5. Using a ball-point pen, draw a line along the circle, conditionally dividing the egg into two halves. Here's how, as shown in this photo.
6. Now we figure out how the picture should be placed in order to calculate its maximum allowable size, and then take off the napkin and cut off the markings. We get the exact pattern for embroidery. While it can be postponed.
7. Now select the pattern for embroidery. We embroider on an egg that's such a sweet and very simple chicken. We make the scheme of embroidery. For the calf, we will use yellow and orange floss, and for the beak and legs - brown.
8. Next, embark on the embroidery of a chicken, of course we embroider a cross.
9. At the next stage, we apply the paper blank to the finished embroidery and cut out the blade in the shape of the workpiece. Pay special attention to the location of the embroidery, the chicken should be strictly in the middle.
10. Next, we keep the embroidery in hot water for a while, so that the material becomes supple, then evenly place the canvas on the egg.
11. Then tightly wrap the work in a paper napkin and leave to dry. The cloth is evenly placed neatly on the egg.
12. When the paper napkin has dried, carefully open it and apply a thick layer of Moment glue along the edge of the canvas.
13. Next, we moisten the surface, wrap the work, first checking that there is no wrinkle underneath it, and tightly bind the egg with a string.
14. After a while we return to work. The fabric stuck neatly and evenly. The paper is glued to the embroidery in places, and it is carefully removed.
15. On the reverse side we make the same embroidery and do the same. Of course, you can come up with something more interesting, so that the egg is not the same on both sides.
16. To hide the unevenness of the seam, we select and paste the decorative braid in a tone.
17. Several finishing touches, so that our artwork has a finished look: a leg and a pink bow. We will insert the knife neatly into the hole, located on the obtuse part of the Easter egg. Now you can stick an egg in a flower pot and wait for a holiday.