Cross-stitch tablecloths: patterns

Today, tablecloths decorated with a counting cross are very popular among needlewomen. Despite the availability of materials, embroidered products look very expensive, stylish, create a festive atmosphere, and delight guests. Such an interior detail can be a great gift for a wedding or anniversary. Products can be bought in a store or ordered, but it is much more pleasant to create a unique thing with your own hands. The complexity and effectiveness of the result will depend only on the embroidery’s imagination and skills. Consider the main points in more detail.

Tablecloth Ornaments

Fragments of embroidery of ornaments originate in ancient Russia. Repeated repetition of the same elements enhances their importance as charms .

Most often, the following elements of the picture are found.

  • The sun (a rosette, an equilateral cross) as a base around which the rest of the ornament or a repeating wheel is placed.
  • Rhombus is the feminine principle.
  • The Christmas tree is the tree of life.
  • Plants, animals and birds.

REFERENCE! Also popular are patterns made up of geometric shapes (circles, squares, rectangles), plant elements (branches, leaves, fabulous and existing).

Sometimes they embroider with just three threads of a mouline thread:

  • red (harmony in personal life);
  • blue (peace, tranquility);
  • green (power of nature).

Cross-stitch floral patterns

Tablecloths, large-sized napkins, and embroidery's serving paths are most often decorated with flowers. This is the most common topic.

It is used in baskets, borders from leaves and buds, in combination with lines, ribbons, geometric shapes, animals or flower bouquets. Patterns are embroidered in the middle of the tablecloth and its border.

The images of daisies, poppies, irises, violets, exotic and field plants are great. If you have artistic skills, you can come up with a report yourself.

The choice of difficulty usually depends on skill and experience. The motif must be precisely aligned in width and length in order to repeat several times completely, without trimming.

IMPORTANT! For beginners, it is better to try to embroider simple patterns with a small number of shades (no more than 5), and then go on to multi-color ones.

Border for round and rectangular tablecloth

When choosing an idea, remember the purpose and subject matter of the finished work.

Rectangular

  • The rectangular dining tablecloth is modestly decorated and is not overloaded with details . It is complemented by decoration from a simple hemstitch; the set may include square napkins (with a similar small fragment).
  • Everyday uses jewelry more complex, along the edge - lace or wide hem.
  • Ceremonial (festive ) is used for special occasions. It makes the most delicate decoration and embroidery with many elements.

HELP . The most common fabrics for home use are cotton and linen. They are environmentally friendly, practical: easy to wash with gentle detergents, ironing.

The rim of a rectangular product is with a continuous edge design around the perimeter . Although sometimes needlewomen find this idea boring. An option with individual parts that can be combined into your own unique composition is possible.

In both cases, attention should be paid to the corners, they give rigor to symmetry and completeness.

By the color of embroidery they are divided into two groups.

  • Plain, monochrome: red, green, imitation Gzhel.
  • Multicolor : about 20 shades of floss, especially complex ones reach 50.

Round

The round version is also characterized by continuous ornaments repeating the shape of a circle . They can be wide and narrow (in one flower).

Sometimes a large wreath or bouquet is located in the center, and smaller buds, berries, leaves diverge from it. The border may then be absent.

ATTENTION! Decoration is sometimes located far from the edge, if the author's idea requires it. This technique is used for serving a small tea or coffee table. Moreover, the distance from the hem of the fabric to the pattern cannot be less than 5 cm.

Roses

Often, individual roses and their interweaving with other flowers or lines are located in patterns along the edge. In the center is a large wreath, a bouquet or many small roses, which alternate in a checkerboard pattern, with squares of a clean canvas.

IMPORTANT! Experienced needlewomen necessarily do the marking: 10 x 10 cells. This allows us not to make a mistake when transferring the scheme to the canvas. The middle is also marked with stitches or a washable marker.

Floral motifs

Such motifs are represented by a variety of buds, wreaths framed by ribbons, winding vines and bindweeds, braiding a wooden fence, branches. Flowers can be either indoor (geranium) or garden.

Patterns for embroidery New Year's tablecloth

Ideas for the project can be chosen in accordance with the theme of the event: New Year, wedding, Easter.

Christmas drawings are very popular. These include spruce branches, holly, Christmas decorations, stars, snowflakes, Santas, snowmen, angels, candles.

They look very advantageous on colored matter: raspberry, blue, turquoise. The only condition: when laying the table, the dishes must certainly be white.

REFERENCE. An excellent addition to the floss will be the use of melange (for example, the transition from yellow to orange in one skein) and metallic threads.

Decorating the tablecloth with a cross is a long painstaking work. But choosing your favorite project or composing your own scheme, you will get a unique thing that will bring a piece of comfort and high spirits to your home.