Our everyday life is decorated with little things - trinkets that are pleasing to the eye and serve a decorative role, toys, figurines, paintings, napkins, sofa cushions. All of them are able to give the room a special charm and comfort. And embroidery on the pillow will add even more charm to the interior.
Nice hobby
Despite being absolutely busy life problems, people are trying to find free time for creativity. For many, embroidery becomes an outlet in everyday worries. The history of this art is experiencing a rebirth in the present - everything more people, and of different ages and gender, are passionate about embroidery. Creating these hand-made paintings using various techniques is a very complex and painstaking task. But embroidery on a pillow is available to anyone who wants to get creative with a thread and a needle and at the same time decorate the interior of the room with something original.
Sofa pendants - beautiful and bright
Embroidery on a pillow has been one of the most common ways to create coziness in a home for a long time. After all, all handmade had her own sacred meaning- such things served as amulets, protecting households from evil spirits. Retaining this purpose, sofa cushions over time also became mandatory. decorative item everyday life Small ones began to be called thoughts, apparently because they beckoned one to take a nap on the sofa, rest one’s head on their patterned surface, relax, and think. Embroidery on a pillow could be very different in style, design, and technique.
Beauty with a cross
By the way, this is not very difficult - embroidery. Sofa cushions decorated using this technique can be an excellent proof of this. After all, there is no need to embroider a multi-colored picture on a sofa cushion. Sometimes a one- or two-color ornament is quite enough. You can put it along the edge of the pillow or embroider a corner with a simple pattern - and everyday thing will immediately turn into something original.
The most difficult thing in cross stitch is color transitions, when you need to accurately count the number of squares of one color or another. But if there are only one or two shades of floss, then there is absolutely no difficulty in such work.
And there are different crosses
The embroidery pattern of a pillow that will decorate a home can be very different, as well as the patterns with which it is decorated.
It is most convenient to embroider with the simplest cross stitch - a stitch along the diagonal of the square, from left to right, and then along the other diagonal - from right to left. It is most convenient to embroider paths and sections of the same color with such crosses, changing the thread when moving to another section.
That is, first, diagonal stitches are embroidered in one direction across all squares of the same shade, then the same squares are quilted along the second diagonals in the opposite direction. This cross is the most primitive.
But there are also quite complex methods - elongated crosses, when the stitch goes on two conditional squares. Or semi-extended crosses - in one direction the stitch is two squares, and in the other - only one.
Even more difficult is the so-called double or Bulgarian cross - the stitches are first made along two diagonals, and then along the centers of the sides of the cell - from bottom to top and from left to right. It is up to the needlewoman to decide how to create the drawing. But cross-stitching a pillow still prefers to use the most ordinary embroidery cross.
Various themes for every taste
In order to create a beautiful sofa cushion with your own with my own hands, using an ancient type of needlework - cross stitch, you can use any designs, any threads that you like and are suitable for a specific job.
Traditionally, they are used for this. They are strong and silky enough to make them comfortable to work with. Oh color scheme there is no need to even say, since manufacturers try to embody in their product range shades of all the colors that the human eye can discern.
But you can embroider with almost any thread, as long as it matches the design. As for the theme of embroidered sofa pillows, it, naturally, can be very different - from classic bouquets to some kind of technical scheme, if that’s what you like. You can find some patterns, divided into cells for ease of embroidery, in our article.
All around
Why is embroidery on a pillow convenient? Because it is absolutely not necessary to fill its entire field with patterns. Sometimes there are only enough of them in a corner, and your little thought will become a decoration of your favorite sofa. You can sew a pillowcase from several parts, one of which will be cross-stitched, and the rest will be just fabric. You can place the embroidered piece in the center or on the edge - as you see fit in a particular embodiment.
How to use fabric effectively? You can choose a piece large enough to accommodate several small embroideries, make them all, and then use them in different pillows. This way you will get a whole set of little thoughts in the same style. If there is no piece of fabric suitable for stretching onto the hoop, then it is covered with another fabric using running stitches. In any case, a cross-stitched sofa pillow is a cozy interior detail that is both decorative and practical, and therefore can be whatever you want.
Fairy tales for children
There is no doubt that for a child the world should, first of all, be joyful and interesting. And the interior of a children's room or children's corner must meet these requirements. Embroidery of children's pillows, made by the hands of loving relatives, can bring great joy to the baby if it depicts a favorite character from a fairy tale or cartoon.
And for the tiniest babies you can embroider crib pillows. For example, decorate each with embroidery with a child’s drawing, and then sew the sides into a crib from several small pillows. Things created with love with your own hands have the power of a talisman, as our ancestors believed.
For lasting joy
Any handmade work is painstaking, thoughtful, creative work. Undoubtedly, you want the results of your creativity to please you for as long as possible. Therefore, when the embroidery is ready, it is washed and the reverse side is steamed through the fabric. Then they collect the entire pillow. Embroidered products should be washed by hand, rinsing in slightly salted water, then dried and ironed from the inside out through the fabric, placing the fabric inside the product.
This is a cross stitch pillow. Schemes for such work can be found ready-made, or you can break your favorite picture into cells yourself or use special computer programs for this.
You can decorate a sofa cushion with an ornament of just three or four shades. We offer a pattern of 4 colors (it is presented below) - brown (K), green (G), blue (S), lilac (L). The ornament consists of sections that repeat one after another. So, the top track is embroidered with the following repeat on 27 squares of canvas:
- Row 1 - skip seven squares, 11 crosses K;
- Row 2 - skip 4 cells, 4 K, skip 9 cells, 4 K;
- Row 3 - skip 2 cells, 3 K, skip 9, 1 C, skip 5, 3 K;
- 4 row - 4 K, skip 9, 3 C, 7 empty, 3 K;
- 5 row - 1 K, 6 empty, 5 C, 4 empty, 4 W, 4 empty, 1 K;
- 6th row - 1 K, 4 empty, 2 C, 5 empty, 1 C, 2 empty, 6 W, 3 empty, 1 K, 1 empty, 1 K;
- Row 7 - skip 10, 1 C, 2 empty, 1 C, skip 10, 1 K, 1 empty, 1 K;
- 8 row - skip 2, 4 K, 4 empty, 1 C, 4 empty, 4 L, 4 empty, 3 K;
- 9 row - 2 empty, 1 K, 2 skip, 2 K, 6 skip, 1 W, 1 empty, 4 L, 1 C, 6 empty, 1 K;
- 10 row - 1 K, 5 empty, 1 K, 5 empty, 2 W, 1 empty, 4 L, 1 S, skip 1, 2 S, 3 empty, 1 K;
- 11th row - 2 K, 4 empty, 1 K, 5 empty, 2 W, 1 empty, 1 L, 4 S, 1 empty, 3 S, 3 empty;
- Row 12 - 1 cell empty, 2 K, 1 empty, 2 K, 6 empty, 2 W, 6 empty, 1 L, 7 empty;
- Row 13 - skip 2, K 3, 7 empty, 2 Z, 4 empty, 2 S, 1 empty, 2 S, 4 empty;
- Row 14 - skip 13 cells, 1 W, 4 empty, 2 C, 1 empty, 2 C.
Cross stitch does not imply a description of the work in rows - the work uses diagrams of the design, laid out in colored squares. The needlewoman independently calculates the number of cells of a particular color, changing the thread in the needle as the color changes, or embroidering large areas in one color, sequentially counting row after row.
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Cross stitching a pillow in Rus' has always been an almost sacred thing. Why did this happen? Embroidery of pillows has long been the most favorite handicraft, and the cross has always been considered a talisman against evil spirits and the evil eye. Icons and paintings with various images are embroidered with a cross. But besides this, it has long been common among people to decorate all sorts of household items with embroidery. Most often, pillows were cross-stitched. Cross-stitching pillows was very common in earlier times. It was difficult to find a home that did not have embroidered pillows. If the cross is cleansing and protects from all evil, then such embroidery on a pillow is considered to bring good to everyone who uses it. Nowadays, embroidered sofa cushions are also very popular.
The agenda of our lesson today is cross stitch. A sofa pillow is most often embroidered with a cross. Embroidery on pillows is done in the same way as any other cross-stitch work. Embroidered pillows look especially attractive on a sofa or ottoman. In order to embroider a sofa cushion, we will need a pattern, as well as the following materials:
- canvas;
- special marker for marking outline;
- scissors;
- threads;
- scheme;
- needle.
If you have already noticed, embroidering pillows requires the same materials and tools as making any other product.
Having a magnifying glass is only necessary if you have a very small caliber circuit. Cross stitching a pillow begins with simple steps like threading a needle and securing the thread to the canvas. Separate one thread from the bundle and fold it in half so that the tail of the loop remains at the bottom, and thread the two connected ends into a needle.
To properly secure the thread to the canvas, insert the thread from the inside to the face, leaving the tail on the inside. Making a stitch obliquely, we bring the thread back to the wrong side and pick up the loop with the needle, tightening it. Let's tighten the loop not too tightly, and not weakly. We bring the needle back to the front side and make the first cross.
Features of working with diagrams and outlines
Any pattern is divided into squares, and pillow embroidery is no exception. We advise you to draw the same squares on the canvas. In this case, it will be very easy for you to embroider the pillow. It is most convenient to embroider any patterns from the center of the canvas. In order to determine this center, fold the canvas in half, and then in half again. At the intersection of the fold lines is the center of the outline, from which we will draw it into squares. We embroider it as if we were embroidering any other product, painting or icon.
Assembling the pillow after embroidery
When the embroidery of the pillows is finished, you need to assemble them correctly. The top side is already ready. All we have to do is purchase a part of the product called bottom side pillowcases with zipper.
In addition to embroidering the pillow, it is necessary to make an inner pillowcase, which we cut from any light fabric to the size of the product. After this, you need to make a light basting, and then stitch it on a typewriter. Once the bottom pillowcase is sewn, we will need synthetic soft padding material. We need to fill our pillowcase with this soft filler.
And now the moment has come to connect the lower outside with embroidered top side. To do this, you need to place the top and bottom parts face to face, and stitch around the entire perimeter of the product with very strong threads. And at the end of the work, we unzip the bottom pillowcase and turn the entire product right side out. After this, we insert the already prepared bottom pad, filled with soft synthetic padding, through the unzipped zipper.
So we figured out exactly how pillow embroidery is done, and further work on completing and assembling the embroidered pillow. In our lesson you can find patterns for an embroidered pillow that you can use if you like them.
An example of a pattern for embroidering a sofa cushion “Angel Wings”
Cross stitch on pillows has long been famous in Ukrainian culture. Such pillows are traditional Slavic peoples were considered to protect the home from evil spirits. IN present time Cross-stitching of pillows used to decorate the interior of a residential building is relevant.
Ukrainian embroidery combines all kinds of colors, illuminating the surrounding space with brightness and unusual beauty. Professional needlewomen decorate the entire home textiles, thus decorating your apartments. Cross stitch is a simple embroidery technique. It is not difficult to learn how to create elements of such creativity. The main thing is that beginning needlewomen have great desire, patience and perseverance. Having a stock of such professional qualities, you can embroider a pillow and decorate your room with it.
Material for cross stitching pillows
Before starting the work process, you need to study the techniques used in embroidery and prepare the working material:
- thick fabric for pillow
- padding polyester
- fabric for the back wall of the pillowcase
- ornament scheme
- outline
- sewing thread
- embroidery thread
- wooden hoop
- darning needles
- tailor's and small scissors
Embroidery can be done on different fabrics, the structure of which resembles squares:
- canvas
- cotton
Threads are selected at the request of the embroiderer. Having prepared everything necessary for creative ideas, let's study step by step execution cross.
Cross stitch techniques
There are several ways to apply crosses to fabric.
The first method is to embroider the entire cross. Using this method, crosses are applied both vertically and horizontally. Let's get acquainted with the vertical execution of the stitch.
Vertical stitch method
- The procedure begins by inserting a needle and thread into the upper right hole.
- Next it is stitched diagonally to the lower left point.
- We climb up from the inside out.
- We descend diagonally into the lower right hole.
- After one point we go up.
- The thread passes diagonally into the lower left hole of the next square.
- The following steps are repeated.
On the wrong side of the work, you get two even straight lines parallel to each other.
Horizontal stitch method
Crosses are embroidered horizontally in the following steps:
- The stitching starts from the top right to the bottom left hole.
- From the lower left corner it goes to the upper left point.
- Next, the needle and thread are inserted into the lower right hole.
- The needle comes out diagonally at the top right point.
- The procedure is repeated again.
While working, we observe the direction of the stitches - they should lie in one direction, then you will get an aesthetically beautiful and correct pattern. The reverse side of horizontal embroidery is distinguished by oblique lines.
Step-by-step execution of oblique stripes in one direction, then in the other. This method is performed in the following steps:
The reverse side of this embroidery is distinguished by small stitches.
Having learned how to make cross stitches, we begin to embroider wonderful sofa accessories. Cross-stitched items look original in any room of a residential building. Pads are selected to match the tone of the furniture, wallpaper or curtains and represent bright accent, attracting attention.
Sofa cushions are decorated with a variety of ornaments chosen by the needlewoman. Often craftswomen use a pattern of embroidered chains closed together. It is in this product that the main, central area of the pattern is combined with a border on the side. The embroiderers also depict flowers in the center, and the edges are decorated with border patterns. The combination of various images looks quite good and attractive.
How to create a pillow
To create a unique pillow with original patterns, we immediately make a pillow, and then sew an embroidered pillowcase on it.
Sewing the pillow itself is easy. Let's consider the detailed step by step instructions creative process.
Step 1
We take a dense material, cut out two lengths of our product with seam allowances.
Step 2
Sew on sewing machine three and a half sides of the future product.
Step 3
Cut it out required size padding polyester
Step 4
We place the artificial filler in a sewn pillowcase.
Step 5
Sew up the remaining hole using a blind stitch.
The interior item is almost ready. All that remains is to decorate it with a delightful pillowcase embroidered with a cross.
Before decorating the product, we think about what fabric we will use. You can use the same fabric for the entire pillowcase, perhaps reproduce the ornament on the canvas, and decorate the back part with a different material structure. It all depends on your wishes and creative fantasies needlewomen.
Let's start cross stitching the pillow
The schematic drawing on paper is divided into squares ten by ten cells. To make the ornament perfect, use a special marker to draw the same squares on the canvas as in the chosen pattern. We mark the center of the pattern by folding the canvas in half twice and begin embroidering from the mark we made.
Having finished the embroidery process, we prepare the back of our pillow:
- To do this, using sharp tailor's scissors, a piece is cut out of the selected fabric, identical to the embroidered canvas with allowances for basting.
- We apply canvas and fabric, sew up three parts with a sewing machine - the top and two sides.
- We sew a snake into the remaining lower part of the pillowcase.
- The product is turned inside out. The exclusive pillowcase is ready. The final step is to place the made pillow in a new and beautiful pillowcase.
- I would like to note that interior pillows are embroidered on thicker fabrics and are completely cross-stitched.
- Sleeping pillows are usually made of soft fabrics and embroidered with simple designs.
- Cushions intended for decorating apartments are complemented with soutache cord or tassels.
Instead of a zipper, buttons and ties are often used. satin ribbons. Craftswomen use their interesting and unusual ideas, which are never repeated. Such a hobby as cross-stitching a pillow brings joy and great mood. Handmade items are great as gifts for Christmas. significant dates, because they convey warmth and tenderness to the person being gifted.
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On my website you can download free various embroidery patterns for decorating the interior of a living room, bedroom or children's room.graphics format and retypes in Pattern Maker and PCStitch. All embroidery patterns are sorted into appropriate categories for easy searching. My collection is periodically updated with new embroidery patterns from free access on the Internet.
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