Blessed afternoon my dear NeedleworkMonday friends, I am pleased to greet you again. From the bottom of my heart I hope everything is going very well in your lives. It's been a few days since I last posted here, as I haven't had much free time to knit. Although I have several unfinished projects, I decided to take a break from crochet to get back to embroidery, an art that I love and admire very much.
Embroidery is an art that has always fascinated me, but it is an activity in which we strain our eyes and the cervical spine suffers a little. For this reason I have always dedicated much more time to crochet. The technique that I have always practiced to make embroidery projects is the cross stitch technique, because I think it is the simplest, in my opinion.
A few days ago I found a piece of fabric used for cross stitch embroidery and I felt like practicing this beautiful technique again. I decided to start with small and simple projects so as not to get overwhelmed or frustrated. My first practice project is this cute sunflower framed in a black square. It is worth noting that this time I am not using the typical embroidery skeins. I decided to embroider using 1mm crochet thread, so that the figure formed by the cross stitch is much more noticeable and has a little relief to the touch.
For the cross stitch technique, gridded charts are used to help us form the figure. after several minutes on Pinterest looking at various designs, I decided on the sunflower, to break the tradition I have of starting each new technique with a heart figure. This time I wanted to be a little more risky and work with several colors. Besides the sunflower is my favorite flower and I have already knitted it in various forms, now it's time to make an embroidered one.
In summary, I can say that I expected the figure to turn out a bit bigger, but it is understandable because the grid of the fabric is quite small. I think it is ideal for much more elaborate designs such as landscapes or drawings with more elements. For now I will continue practicing with small figures, which I will later join in a more complete project. I hope you like this sunflower. Thanks for reading, greetings and blessings.
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