Cross stitch

The cross stitch is a noble and ancient form of embroidery had been using for immemorial times to decorate and to personalize the laundry for the house and the garments.
His/her origins him pardon in the night of the times, but we know that the primitive men already sewed the skins of the animals with a technique similar to the cross stitch. Since then this versatile point it is very evolved, a central position conquering himself/herself/itself in the world of the embroidery, consolidated from the innovations and from the contributions of generations of impassioned of this art.
Being firmly convinced that the best embroideries are born from the tastes and from the personal affairs, I/you/they are inspired me, for some projects of this book, to the images of the nature. I hope to be able to show however that also the house and the environment in which we live are a' good source of inspiration with their colors, motives and you sprout, and that the simple techniques of embroidery illustrated following are useful to create objects for all the tastes.

The impassioned ones of the cross stitch they have the tendency to be person of fixed habits; for this they often work on cloth Aida to 55 or 72 quadrettis, using spun of twisted cotton. Nevertheless, in the last years, you/he/she has arrived on the market an ample range of fabrics in the most different colors, to denser plot. The cross stitch in fact, besides the cloths commonly used, it perfectly adapts him to material alternative as the silk, the paper, the canvases, the plastic materials and of vinyl. Besides the traditional cotton yarns they are available also cottons now from embroidery to a thread, spun of silk or of rayon, melangiati or lamé, new wool types and straight ribbons. This amazing yarns choice and fabrics it is an extraordinary stimulus for the creative minds.
Also the sources of inspiration are nearly endless, you are enough to think about the traditional motives handed down during the centuries in the Mediterranean, in northern Europe, in North America and in Asia. But it it is not necessary to go far for finding some I sprout original: the objects that are more darlings in the house, as for instance a beautiful tea service of porcelain or a delicious paper from protected, an elegant plotted by furnishings, a decoration to stencil, of the beautiful tiles, you/they can inspire magnificent accessories tuned up beyond the facility or of the complexity of the sketches from which to draw inspiration, will see what you/he/she can be done with a few no of talent, so much enthusiasm and a lot of imagination.

VARIATIONS ON THE SIMPLE THEMES:

He is not able some to deny that a certain talent in the sketch helps, but it is also true that for many projects it doesn't need to be for strength great draftsmen. We will show whether not to have an artistic predisposition is necessary neither a solid creative experience to invent original motives and to choose colors tuned up to the furnishings of house.
We begin with some simple floral motives, with leaves and geometric stems, framed by a hem. This sketch is particularly proper for square or rectangular, both small and great jobs, as for instance a beautiful pillow for the chair next to the telephone, the cover of a notebook or a bookmark.
I have chosen him/it two projects of averages dimensions, a book of the guests and a tiracampana, two objects that are well in the portico before house or in the entry. In every scheme four tones of the same color appear only, together with the green for the leaves.

If before trying your personal creations, preferred to reproduce these sketches, it will simply be enough to change the colors according to your tastes. To combine the book of the guests to the tiracampana, will be enough to replace the four tones of blue with other four tones of red (blue sea with brown reddish, blue clear with brown reddish clear, blue with red, and celestial with pink) or vice versa. In alternative, you can choose completely different colors to tune up them to the environment where these attractive objects will go.

Who loves to paint you/he/she has gotten used to choose the colors with care, just as who embroiders it selects the best yarns using himself/herself/itself of the briefcases you harvest to disposition from the ovens bulls. These briefcases, with the champions of the available tones for every yarn type, they are precious for the one whom embroiders. The chromatic tones are exposed in sequence by the clearest to the darkest and they allow to choose the number of colors to mix for getting a progressive or conflicting effect. If you decide to reproduce the jobs that I propose you in red, but not in the tonalities that I have chosen, you will find in the briefcases you the various tones of the red, from the orange tree to the brown one and the purple. The same is also worth for the autumn colors as the yellow, the orange, the brown gilded, or for the violet one, the lilac and the mallow, for the green in all the tones of the leaves, from the blue one to the yellow, dall' opaque to the bright one. Be to you the choice! With a good briefcase you it is possible to find the best equivalent of the tonality that is wanted to reproduce in an embroidery cotton Muliné to six threads or in other yarns types.