As a child, all the children read fairy tales and, of course,met on the pages of many magical fairy creatures: Pegasus, hypogriffs, dragons, mermaids, firebirds and unicorns. About them and will be discussed in our article. After reading it, you will see several schemes of embroidery the unicorn cross, and also learn what materials are best used in their work.
To create paintings you will need a canvas for embroidery, a woolen or cotton woolen mule, a needle with a wide hole.
Monochrome embroidery pattern of unicorn cross
If you just learn how to embroider a cross, thentake the simplest outline. Similar cross stitch patterns for beginners are characterized by a small amount of materials. In addition, monochrome embroidery has its own style and charm. Below we have given you an example of such embroidery.
To embroider a unicorn, you need to buy a canvas forembroidery and special threads. Most often, a mulina is used for this purpose. Threads are cotton, woolen, viscose and even synthetic. For a simple monochrome (black and white) embroidery cheap Chinese thread floss is suitable. As a rule, the wealth of colors of Chinese goods is not different, so for large embroidery cross it does not fit.
As can be seen from the cross stitch patternunicorn, you will need a small canvas cut size of 15 x 20 cm. First, determine the center of the embroidery. To do this, divide the sides in half and draw lines between the opposite ones. The intersection of the line will be considered the center of the embroidery. Start embroidering with it.
Note that it is easier to make mistakes in a monochromeEmbroidery because of the long rows of more than twenty crosses. To avoid mistakes, take breaks more often and double-count the number of crosses.
A complex multicolor unicorn cross stitch pattern
Below we introduced a fairly simple embroidery, butusing several colors. To create such a unicorn, you will need a canvas measuring 8x6 centimeters and a mulina of several colors (gray, black or dark gray, lilac, light lilac, pink). To this pattern of cross-stitch embroidery for beginners, you can pick up a Chinese mulina, you will definitely have enough shades. Moreover, for the mane and tail, you can buy a mulina with a metallic effect. This will make the embroidery more interesting and bright.
First, determine the center of the embroidery as it iswas described above. Then embroider the contour out of gray. It is noteworthy that in this beautiful cross-stitch embroidery a gray two shades are used. You can take one, this does not spoil the embroidery. After the contour, proceed to the wings, mane and tail. At the end of the work iron the embroidery. Done!
Embroidery for children's things
Many children's things can be decorated with embroiderycross. You can make a drawing on clothes (for example, a sweater, a headdress or a T-shirt) or personal things (for example, on a pillow or a bag). Especially beautiful embroidery will look on the curtains in the nursery. As an element we have resulted the scheme of an embroidery by a cross of the unicorn. It is small, its size depending on the size of the cell will be from 8x8 cm to 10x10 cm.
As with the previous schemes, first determinecenter embroidery, and then start working. As you can see, the unicorn itself is made in lilac and purple hues, but you can make it in blue or pink.
Large cross stitch embroidery
Large paintings, embroidered with a cross, you can alreadyframed and hung on the wall. Below we gave a diagram of the cross-stitching of a unicorn from a popular children's cartoon called "Friendship is a miracle!".
To embroider a picture you will need a canvas measuring approximately 30x35 cm, as well as a mulina of gray, three shades of purple, violet, blue, blue and black.
First, determine the center of the picture.You can start work either from the outline or from the mane. Note! If you are embroidering on colored fabric, you must also embroider the very body of the pony. And if you embroider on a white background, then the picture will seem more voluminous. Although in the case of a white background, the body can be left unfilled.
Tips for embroidery
So you saw the pattern of embroidery of a unicorn cross. Now we will give you some tips to help you improve:
- Choose only a proven manufacturer of floss. Otherwise, your work in a few years can lose its color, become faded and expressionless.
- Woolen threads give more volume. If you want to create a fluffy and soft unicorn, then take exactly the woolen threads of the mulina.
- If the unicorn is small, and its glazik consists of only one cell, then it can be embroidered with a bead - the picture will seem more alive.
- You can use additional decor elements - rhinestones, satin ribbons and beads.
- If you want the embroidery to be more detailed, then take the canvas with small crosses. However, remember that working with such a canvas is much more difficult.
As you can see, the cross-stitch embroidery scheme of a unicorn can easily turn into a real picture and become an ornament of the interior or even clothes.
