Embroidery of registered icons with beads: recommendations for beginners

Recently, fashionable embroidery of personal icons by beads among needlewomen has become fashionable. Nominal icons are the faces of saints, they are also called guardian angels whose names were given to a person at baptism. If you order a set as a gift, then notice that there can be several saints with the same name. It is better for a person to ask for the name given at baptism, or to consult with the priest about the choice of an icon as a gift.

How to embroider icons with beads?

It is better to work with a ready-made kit, where you already have instructions, beads, needles, canvas with a picture. You embroider the icon on the frame (cobble to the size of the embroidery four bars), prikolov ends of the fabric to her. If in the process of work the canvas is not tightened, then you can work without auxiliary materials.

Now embark on a personal icon:

• In the needle insert the two ends of the thread, forming a loop;
• Output it in the lower left corner to the front of the canvas;
• String the bead;
• Insert the needle into the opposite corner;
• Next, remove the needle in the next cell in the same lower left corner and repeat everything again;
• As soon as the thread is finished, stretch the needle on the wrong side through a few stitches.

As with any needlework, embroidery of registered icons with beads should be without knots and broaches. Therefore, we embroider in two pieces to form a loop, and at the end of the thread we trim the bead twice and hide under 8-10 stitches on the wrong side. If the set contains beads of different texture and size, then embroider first small. Since large beads can take up more space than is shown in the figure.

Embroidery of personal icons with beads: general tips

For the strength of the embroidery, you sew the beads twice, if the work is under the glass, then you can attach the thread once. The main criterion for the quality of icons is the evenness of the product. Therefore, experts advise to sheathe either vertical, or horizontal, or diagonal rows, inserting and withdrawing the needle in the same place.

It is necessary for embroidery of registered icons with beads to be smooth. Having reached the face, hands or inscriptions, start the next series as if the previous one had been completed. In the best case in such places to work with a few needles, so that the drawn sections were without assemblies and constrictions.

Select the thread with white or with the color of the fabric. Under the dark beads, the shades of the thread are not visible, but the transparent beads are better for embroidering monofilament. Technique in circular motions requires professional skills, as it uses a glass beaker of different sizes and a different direction of the rows.

Pay attention to the quality of the canvas: it is difficult to embroider on linen, but the beads do not slip, and the material does not collect. Through silk, the needles are easily pierced, the needle-entry points for the needle are clearly visible in the figure, but the cloth will warp if the thread is slightly pulled over.

How to choose sets of beads

When buying a set of icons you need to pay attention to quality. Unlike mulina beads it is difficult to transfer the entire palette of colors. Where the backstick can emphasize the clarity and elegance of the lines, in beaded embroidery, either another color or a drawn drawing is used. That's why some schemes are fuzzy, and the plots of the pictures can be seen only from a distance (near everything merges into a spot).

Therefore, you need to carefully approach the sets and schemes (monochrome and for the cross do not fit, only beadwork). Icons "Croche" are more expensive in comparison with the manufacturer "Abris Art", but their quality is better. The faces of saints are clearly traced, the work uses the maximum number of colors, the background appears with an abstract pattern or landscape. When choosing a set, look at the size of the finished embroidery. Icons of a small size (about 10 cm) can be worn with you as an amulet, and hang up at large sizes (up to 30 cm) at home.

Of all kinds of needlework, the most beautiful is beadwork. Icons of nominal (the schemes mean industrial) look like real ones. Many pros combine embroidery with beads of different sizes, beads and stones with faces of saints from religious calendars. This technique requires great professionalism and patience.