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Thursday, February 12, 2009
How To Create Your Own Design
If you love cross stitching you are always searching for new design and there are plenty of patterns and designs you can find today. But sometimes you see a nice picture somewhere and think "That could be a good cross stitch design I can make..." I can tall you "You really CAN!"
Making your own cross stitch design isn't so hard. You just need use your imagination. I'll show you all process of creating a cross stitch design here.
First of all you need to fined a picture you want to cross stitch and at first time it's better to start with small and simple picture. Then you need to draw horizontals and vertical lines and at the end you have a grid on your picture. Remember: the more lines you draw the better and clear design will be. The lines don't have to be perfect, your squares can be different sizes - this is just a helping tools for you. This part of cresting is the most exhausting and boring work but you really need it. You can prepare some sort of grid and use it.
When you finish with your lines you already have some sort of pattern. Now you are starting to fill your squares with colors. It's easy to fill in squares colored in one color but what about squares with few colors in it? You need to decide what color it will be. Here is a rule - if there are few colors in a square you choose the most presented in it. If there is lots of red in a square and a bit of blue - you choose red and so on. Even after this you can have a look at your picture and have little changes to make it better.
Hopefully you finish filling in the squares. Now we need to do something with thin lines if you have them. Just use full and half back stitching for this. You can also use it to make an edge of you picture, it become more clear like this.
Now you have finished design of your picture and you can start to cross stitch it. I think you will love the result - your one cross stitch sampler from the beginning to the end.
After this you can try to make a bigger and more complicated design. There is only one little problem with big designs - it is hard to make so big grid.
Anna Pervuninskaya
http://crossstitchsamplers.zozuz.com
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Anna_Pervuninskaya
Making your own cross stitch design isn't so hard. You just need use your imagination. I'll show you all process of creating a cross stitch design here.
First of all you need to fined a picture you want to cross stitch and at first time it's better to start with small and simple picture. Then you need to draw horizontals and vertical lines and at the end you have a grid on your picture. Remember: the more lines you draw the better and clear design will be. The lines don't have to be perfect, your squares can be different sizes - this is just a helping tools for you. This part of cresting is the most exhausting and boring work but you really need it. You can prepare some sort of grid and use it.
When you finish with your lines you already have some sort of pattern. Now you are starting to fill your squares with colors. It's easy to fill in squares colored in one color but what about squares with few colors in it? You need to decide what color it will be. Here is a rule - if there are few colors in a square you choose the most presented in it. If there is lots of red in a square and a bit of blue - you choose red and so on. Even after this you can have a look at your picture and have little changes to make it better.
Hopefully you finish filling in the squares. Now we need to do something with thin lines if you have them. Just use full and half back stitching for this. You can also use it to make an edge of you picture, it become more clear like this.
Now you have finished design of your picture and you can start to cross stitch it. I think you will love the result - your one cross stitch sampler from the beginning to the end.
After this you can try to make a bigger and more complicated design. There is only one little problem with big designs - it is hard to make so big grid.
Anna Pervuninskaya
http://crossstitchsamplers.zozuz.com
Article Source: http://EzineArticles.com/?expert=Anna_Pervuninskaya
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