Uncomplicated but very spectacular embroidery"Ryabinka" is made with simple seams and is suitable for children from 8-9 years old. Three types of seams were used in the work - french knot, tambour loop and "flying" stitch. A big plus of embroidery with simple stitches is that any material can serve as the basis, and not just canvas, as in cross-stitching. You can also choose any color, but in this work it is desirable to keep the background dark. For children, it is very convenient to do embroidery with simple seams on felt, from which you can then sew some useful little thing - for example. Embroidery "Rowan" can decorate a backpack, pencil case or handbag. It will also look great as a postcard, for example, for Teacher's Day.
For this simple embroidery, you will need a piece of felt, floss in red, orange, brown and green, a needle and scissors.
For children, we offer to embroider on felt - this is a very interesting material. It holds its shape (without requiring a hoop) and at the same time it easily enters the needle.
Pick up felt suitable color for embroidery and frame. We have a ready-made postcard - a frame, but you can make it yourself.
Mark your future embroidery on the felt very schematically, approximately, as in our photo.
Let's start embroidering a mountain ash with leaves. Take the green floss thread in 6 additions (as in a skein). Embroider rowan leaves.
Next, we embroider rowan branches with brown floss in 6 additions (also called a flying stitch) and straight stitches.
Embroider rowan berries

Work on the painting "Rowan" should begin with determining the center of the canvas. Align it with the center of the embroidery indicated on the color scheme by triangular arrows (fragments 2 and 5). The embroidery scheme is shown in 6 pictures, the colors of the threads can be slightly different, but in this version it is desirable to use semi-woolen threads. They are softer, which allows you to give the finished work naturalness. Canvas can be white, but when embroidering this picture, it is best to opt for milky and light beige tones.

To perform embroidery you will need:

color scheme,
colored (white) canvas for embroidery No. 6 (cotton),
wool/acrylic threads - 19 colors,
embroidery needle,
scissors,
hoop.

The size of the finished work is 55 cm * 35 cm.

It is recommended to use a rectangular hoop for this embroidery. Since the threads are very soft, constant exposure to compressive circles can harm them. Therefore, it is better to set the canvas in a frame and try not to move it in the course of work. Embroidery is performed with two types of stitches: a counted cross and a simple stitch (back needle).

First, you need to wash the canvas (to make it softer) and sheathe the edges with a regular stitch or glue the edges with PVA glue. Then you should fix the canvas on the frame, determine the center and you can embroider stitches made with a counted cross. The direction of the rows and counted crosses does not matter, but do not forget that the finished stitches should “look” in one direction. After the picture is completely finished, it is sheathed with a simple stitch (technique - back needle). There are a lot of such stitches in this embroidery. Do not make them too long, otherwise the lines will look broken and unnatural.

Before you place finished work in a frame, it must be carefully washed and ironed from the wrong side. The finished work can be slightly starched, this will give the canvas a little rigidity, which is necessary for a more correct positioning of it in the frame. To do this, it is enough to moisten the gauze with starch water, through which the finished embroidery is ironed.

Mountain ash is a winter berry that feeds all birds that have not flown to warm countries. In addition to nutrition and medicinal properties she has a wonderful appearance. However, when plucked, these orange fruits quickly dry out and lose their decorative properties. The cross-stitching of mountain ash will help to keep the spirit of the winter cold for a long time.

Rowan or viburnum cross-stitched will remind its owner of winter days. After all, this berry weighs on branches even in the most severe frosts, being the main food for bullfinches and other birds not afraid of the cold. Therefore, she is often depicted by craftswomen complete with red-sided birds.

Such embroideries are suitable for decorating not only the interior, but also clothes. These bright orange berries look cute and unusual. Let's take a look at where rowan images can be used.

How to apply rowan embroidery:

• A tablecloth decorated with bullfinches and mountain ash will look appropriate on the table on winter evenings.
• Sofa cushions in the children's room will decorate the interior and bring winter charm to it;
• Some craftswomen manage to place such embroideries on leather bags and boots, but such work requires special tools and not a hefty experience;
• Very cute rowan and viburnum berries are very cute on kitchen towels and potholders;
• Homemade notebooks can also be decorated with such outstanding embroidery.

Rowan patterns can be very different, they will appeal to both novice needlewomen and fastidious craftswomen. For the first, works that include only embroidery of bunches with berries are suitable, while professionals will be pleased with the landscapes of autumn or winter forest dotted with orange berries and pink bullfinches.

A simple rowan cross stitch pattern

The rowan embroidery pattern for beginners does not include any additional elements. It consists only of orange berries and green leaves.

For such a picture, you will need threads of two shades of red, one black, three green and one white. In total, you should get 6 skeins of floss different colors. Also, stock up on canvas, embroidery needles, and a hoop.

You will no doubt be able to find quite a few schemes for free. We have chosen for beginner needlewomen the simplest, but at the same time interesting.

Brief description of the embroidery of one bunch of rowan berries:

1. There are 9 berries in one bunch different sizes. Along the edge, each berry is embroidered in red, then filled with crimson, orange or pink, and in the very center you can make a highlight of 2-3 white crosses.
2. When all the berries are embroidered, they will need to be connected into one brush with a swamp green line.
3. Leaves are embroidered last, their contour and veins should consist of dark green crosses, and inside they can be filled with a lighter shade.

Even a child studying in primary school. The main thing here is to apply diligence and perseverance.

We complicate the embroidery of mountain ash with a cross with the help of a bird

One of the most popular variations of rowan embroidery is the combination of a bunch of berries with a titmouse or a bullfinch.

For the rowan and leaf embroidery, you can use the colors described in the previous section, but for the bird you will also need to purchase three shades of gray, red, two shades of orange, and brown for the branch.

You can embroider a mountain ash with a bullfinch according to new scheme, or you can continue the successful embroidery of mountain ash. To do this, embroider three bunches of berries at different levels and connect them together with a branch Brown. The belly and chest of the bullfinch consists of red, light orange and dark orange, while the closer the embroidery is to the outline, the richer the shade should become. The tail, wingtips and head are black and dark gray, and the middle of the wings should consist of crosses in two light shades of gray. Do not forget to highlight the transition from the wings to the body and the stripe on the wings with white.

Intricate cross stitch: winter rowan

The most difficult type of embroidery are landscapes. Here, in addition to rowan trees, there are a lot of other elements. This is a bridge across a stormy river that does not freeze in the winter cold, and a snow-covered roof of a house, and gray-colored spruces, and pink clouds.

Such work may include more than sixty shades. Because of what, it is very easy to get confused in it.

Only truly experienced craftswomen can embroider landscapes. It is best to use the parking method for such work. In this case, you are less likely to make mistakes, because of which you have to redo the whole picture.

The parking method involves alternately embroidering sections with all colors. For example, a picture can be divided into squares 10 by 10. You need to move to the next square only after the previous one is completely filled with crosses.

Detailed diagram of a rowan cross (video)

Rowan is a winter berry with an astringent sweet and sour taste. It is a kind of symbol of autumn and winter. To cherish the memories of long, cool evenings throughout the year, cross-stitch this beautiful hardy plant.

The author of this master class, Irina Pechenevskaya, likes to add other techniques to knitting that make the thing exclusive. In this tutorial you will see how Irina embroidered a knitted dress from her new collection.

For embroidery we need:

1. Knitted dress (Irina already knitted and assembled it).
2. The yarn is red for rowan (you can use orange if you want).
3. Brown yarn for twigs.
4. Yarn sectional dyeing for leaves.
5. A marker that fades.
6. Sheet and pen for sketching a pattern for embroidery.
7. Needle for embroidery on knitwear (it has a round nose to make it easier to push the loops apart).
8. Flizelin (optional).

First of all, we need to sketch the drawing so that everything is beautiful in composition. The drawing is figurative, in the course of work it will still be slightly adjusted by a flight of fancy.

We take paper and cut out the same shape on which the embroidery will be located.

We redraw schematically on the dress with a felt-tip pen, which disappears within 24 hours.

The preparatory work has been completed. Let's get to the fun part - embroidery.

We start with branches. Embroider with simple stitches different lengths where you need a wider branch, there are a few stitches.

The underside is not very beautiful, but it's not scary. At the end of the embroidery, interlining is glued on the wrong side, which will fix the ends of the threads and give the wrong side a beautiful look.

Here are the branches.

Here's what happens.

We embroider berries according to the "French knot" type.

We make 15 windings on the needle.

The resulting "karalik" is fixed with stitches.

To go from berry to berry, the thread is threaded from the inside between the loops to avoid many threads.

Here's what happened:

We decided to add more leaves to the original sketch. Here is the final result:

All creative success and inspiration!

I recently visited my mother. I didn’t fly back empty-handed - I photographed my early works, which my mother still keeps (there were paintings on wood, Easter eggs, and much more), as well as mother's cross-stitch.

Rowan - a branch with flower berries with a diagram is shown in the post. Needlework is easy.

rowan pattern, cross-stitched, suitable for sofa cushion, panel.

Of course, you can buy a ready-made cross-stitch kit with patterns that already has everything - canvas, suitable threads, a needle, maybe even a hoop. Then you don't have to think about anything - just embroider.

If you are a beginner or do not want to spend money, then you can delve into old magazines and find the motif you like there for free. Or search on my website - I have already delved into the "old stocks" - magazines, I have a lot different schemes, I will gradually spread.

Rowan cross stitch pattern for beginners

The size of needlework without brushes is 43 x 63 centimeters. The motif "bunches of mountain ash" is embroidered with a cross on any dense material. The material of old skirts, coats is suitable for the base.

Any thread is suitable for work: floss (in 8 additions), iris, wool.

These bunches - flowers and fruits of mountain ash, which you see below in the picture, were embroidered by my mother. She loved to do this needlework - embroidery, especially cross - in childhood, therefore, when she retired, she probably also wanted to.

I understand that she used the shades that she had available. Instead of green leaves, there are bluish-blue tones of the color of the sea wave.

She cross-stitched mountain ash on a cotton base with coarse-weave linen - this is her favorite background. Although you can embroider the same thing with thick woolen yarn on a dense material. She has a pre-purchased canvas, she cuts off a piece of the right size from there, attaches it to the material, then embroiders. When everything is ready, the canvas is very simply removed - it is pulled out along the thread.

If you want to embroider a mountain ash, then the black and white picture below is clickable, click on the photo to enlarge - you can download the larger version of the cross stitch pattern on your disk. The work is not the easiest and smallest, but it is well suited for beginners.

How to transfer an embroidery pattern to fabric

In order to transfer the pattern to the fabric, make a drawing on graph paper: draw with a pencil the outline of the details of the “Ryabinushka” with a cell size of 5 mm x 5 mm.

Then iron the material well. Place carbon paper between graph paper and fabric. With a sharp pencil, make punctures along the outline of the pattern at the intersection of the horizontal and vertical lines of the cell. On top of the surface there will be dots on which it is easy to embroider.

For those who for some reason do not see the picture, I give a description.

Embroidery order

• For rowan berries, take 2-3 tones of red-orange. Distribute them like this: at the base of the bunch - dark, in the center - of medium saturation and along the edge - light berries.
• In each berry, embroider one cross with black threads (light cell - see drawing).
• Embroider the flowers with white and lemon yellow (cores of 4 cells) threads, the stems - dark brown on a light background and light brown - on a dark background.
• For leaves, take 3-4 tones of yellow-green. On the bottom, largest branch, distribute the colors as follows: five leaves on top are the lightest, the next pairs are darker, etc.
• Embroider the rest of the branches according to the principle: from light (upper branches) to dark (its base).
• The frame can be embroidered in dark brown and green (crosses through one). My mother did not embroider the edging, but simply placed her work in a light-colored wooden frame.
• With threads matching the tone of the fabric, sheathe the bottom of the panel with a buttonhole seam. Then attach brushes 10-15 cm long to it.

I have one very old embroidery that my mother made when she was young. The delicate delicate pattern, the filigree work are striking. I have never seen such small crosses! It is a pity that the basis on which the motif is embroidered has fallen into disrepair, although the embroidery itself is intact. I would like to somehow restore it, but so far there are no ideas. Then I'll show you.