Needlework is one of the most constructive kinds of hobbies. First, we create useful and practical things, and secondly - we decorate the house and ourselves. Thirdly, handicraft enthusiasms very calm nerves and help to relax.
Among the hobbies that are gaining popularity are not only traditional knitting or sewing. You can do decoupage or quilting, scrapbooking or macrame. Lovers of frivolity create small lace masterpieces. Schemes of embroidery ribbons, available in magazines on needlework, allow you to create beauty with your own hands. This kind of hobby has become popular in the last decade. In shops now it is possible to get both schemes of embroideries by tapes, and a basis (a canvas), and materials. For creativity, you will need a needle with a large eye and a rounded end. As a basis, you can take a shallow canvas, and just tape or other loose fabric. Weaving should not be too thick, although everything depends on diligence and accuracy. In addition, look for patterns of embroidery ribbons. Do you want to make a tablecloth or pillows, paintings or napkins - the basic techniques for creating colors (this is the basic motif) are the same. Having learned to make buds, stems, rose petals, gladioluses, irises, you can decorate with such a decor any object.
An interesting kind of needlework, especially suitable beginner masters, is a partial embroidery. It is understood that only a fragment of a pattern or a picture is decorated with threads or ribbons. Therefore, the time for such a product Will be spent a little, and the effect, like the process itself, will please for a very long time. To create voluminous paintings or patterns, woolen embroidery threads are perfectly suitable. With the help of fine yarn, you can perform elegant miniatures. And thick threads are used for pillows, covers, large patterns. Schemes embroideries tapes most often offer a certain fragment, which can be placed on the product arbitrarily. The method of transferring such a pattern to a cloth is a calculating or posturing. Similarly, you can perform and embroidery Richelieu, and the smooth surface. But pictures and other products, decorated with a tapestry seam or a cross, are most often done on a printed out on paper scheme.
For those who like needlework, this is a real paradise. In stores you can buy any materials for creativity. There are a lot of threads for embroidering. In addition, if you are not very interested in reproducing a pattern or pattern created by someone, you can make them yourself using computer programs. Such applications handle any photo or drawing. Automatically, creating a schema, they will calculate the number of threads and indicate the numbers from the palette of the selected producer. This is important to take into account, especially if you do everything yourself, and do not buy ready-made sets. The same picture or picture will look different if made of threads from different manufacturers.
Tapes for embroidery can also be bought in stores. Usually, a satin or silk braid with a width of 0.2-0.3 to 1 cm is used for this. Sometimes such embroidery is combined with stitches with large threads.