New Year's cross-stitch

Foreign needlewomen call the New Year and Christmas cross-stitch embroidery stitchmas. This combination of words Christmas (Christmas) and cross-stitch (cross-stitch). This term is gradually adopted and among our embroiderers - New Year's cross-stitch embroidery is becoming more popular.

If you decide to give an embroideryshortly before the holiday, the New Year's cross-stitch embroidery of a large format (at least 30x40) is unlikely to work for you, because besides embroidery, you probably have other things to do. But it is not necessary to embroider large-scale paintings with a lot of details - that's enough small cute embroidery. You can then paste it on the cardboard, and you will get a great Christmas card.

New Year's cross-stitch embroidery does not limit in any way choosing a story. You can embroider a Christmas tree, Santa Claus,a Christmas wreath, a snowman, an angel, a candle, a charming teddy bear in the Santa Claus hat ... It's quite possible to give your friends different embroideries so that the picture and the story never repeat. If you are aiming at very complicated embroideries, you can quite manage for a month or two, paying daily embroidery for a couple of hours.

New Year's embroidery cross is suitable not only for creating original gifts with your own hands. It is quite possible decorate a festive table embroidered with tablecloth, napkins orsupports for various dishes. You can simply embroider the New Year ornament on the edge of the tablecloth and napkins, or you can decorate them with a drawing - the main thing is that they make up a single ensemble. If you are going to invite a lot of guests and want to avoid the turmoil with seating them at the table - embroider the name cards and put them near each appliance.

New Year's cross-stitch embroidery is a great way to decorate gift for your child. Even the purchased thing (scarf, hat, gloves, etc.).) can be enlivened with a funny drawing embroidered with his own hands. If you give your child sweets or tangerines - you can put them in a sack made of fabric, decorated with New Year's embroidery. And in the West, New Year's cross-stitch embroidery is traditionally used for socks-bags for gifts that hang over the fireplace on Christmas Eve.

How does New Year's cross-stitching differ from conventional embroidery? First, as a basis, you can use not white or beige fabric, as usual, but more bright shades - bright red, bright blue, bright green, etc. The holiday after all! Secondly, the usual string of mulina is good to combine filament-metallic different colors and fluorescent threads. New-year cross-stitch embroidery will immediately become more elegant. It is good to decorate the finished embroidery with various ribbons, beads, beads, sequins, paillettes, etc.

New-year cross-stitch embroidery should be bright and original. Therefore, monochrome embroidery in this case is not suitable, on the contrary - the more colors, the better! The most popular colors New Year's embroidery cross - it's green, red and gold.

If you can not come up with a story for embroidery ordo not know what materials and tools will suit you, you can buy a ready-made set for embroidery. They are sold in any store selling goods for needlework. There you can also buy schemes for the New Year's cross-stitch. Many schemes can be downloaded for free on the Internet. The Country of Soviets offers you some simple samples and New Year's patterns of cross stitch - you have to choose the one that you prefer.

New Year's embroidery cross will help you create a beautiful and original gift or greeting card, decorate your house before the holidays, create a New Year atmosphere and please your family and friends!