To embroider a letter with a dash, you do not need a lot of experience and skills. To begin with, you need to do simple actions: to acquire a canvas, thread floss, needles, embroidery frame. Decide on the basic idea of your embroidery that it will be:
- an alphabet embroidered with a cross;
- a message, a congratulation, a gift;
- beautiful initials on personal things;
- a metric for a baby, etc.
Letters can be embroidered with a cross, smoothness, a stalk seam. If the letters are large and patterned, the seam is most often used with a cross. In such a seam, two stitches go diagonally across the square of the canvas and intersect in the center, forming a cross. For the effect of the voluminous letters, not one but two or three close shades of thread for embroidery are most often used.
To embroider the Russian alphabet with a dagger, you will need time. Use letters large, beautiful, carved, in several shades.
How to embroider an alphabet with a cross?
- Prepare everything you need: canvas, mulina, needle, embroidery frame, scissors.
- Choose a pattern for embroidery. Even if you have never embroidered before, now there are many opportunities to learn. Look at schemes for embroidery in magazines on needlework, on specialized forums on the Internet or at a friend - there are many schemes for every taste and different complexity. You can start with simple examples, large letters are easier to embroider.
- For convenience, you can draw a canvas with a pencil on squares. So it will be more convenient for you to count the cells and orient yourself in the picture when changing the thread color.
- Take the thread of the first color and begin to embroider crosses. Calculate the length of the row. At first you can make stitches diagonally to one side, and then go back, making the second diagonal of the cross, and move to a new row.
- If your scheme has several colors, you can immediately change the thread. To get things moving faster, you need to count the crosses and embroider everything possible with one color first, and then change it to the other. The main thing is not to make a mistake in the calculations.
- Continue to make a stitch after the stitch along the contour of your letters. The work is painstaking, but the result should please you.
- After the letter, you can embroider the alphabet, initials with a dagger, a word, some message. It all depends on your imagination!
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Having finished the embroidery, you can put it in a specially selected frame. Such work will be a pleasant gift or decoration for the house. Try it, create it and you will succeed!