How to choose a frame for cross stitch?

When doing embroidery with a cross, stitch, ribbons or rhinestones, you always want the work done to have a decent design. You can buy a frame for embroidery, but before you use the services for making a baguette, you need to understand what a baguette should be, in harmony with a particular embroidery. In this article we will tell you how to choose a frame for cross-stitch and any other way.

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Decoration of an embroidered picture - classic and modern techniques

Currently, many adhere to a combination of baguette and painting styles:

1. For traditional design, we recommend that you choose classic options for landscape or still life, and modern ones for abstractions.
2. The width of the frame is of great importance, so you need to adhere to the rule: a narrow baguette is used for embroidered paintings of small sizes, and wide - for large ones. At the same time, wider frames add solidity, and narrow ones give the picture the opportunity to “solo”, emphasizing the elegance of the work.
3. You should not forget about color. The color of the baguette should be in harmony with both the interior and the image:
   • If the embroidered work is dominated by cold shades (blue, green, purple, gray), then shiny silver or gold will look good.
   • Modern (especially abstract) works look very beautiful in black baguettes.

Important! It is not recommended to tie the design of embroidered work to the home interior of the apartment. Of course, one should not forget about the color scheme of wall decoration, but it must be remembered that embroidery should be paramount.

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Ready-made frames - design features:

• Professional baguettes insert a mat, focusing on the dominant color of embroidery. Passe-partout is made of multi-colored cardboard, inserting it between the needlework and the frame.
• To make a frame with or without glass is an individual choice. Glass takes up the volume, but at the same time protects the embroidery from dust and dirt.
• If you do not separate the edges of embroidery from the baguette at least a few centimeters, the embroidered pattern will cease to be a masterpiece. For this reason, a baguette should be ordered necessarily, starting from the size of the picture.

If you decide to choose a frame for cross-stitch with glass, consider these features:

• Ordinary glass is too glare and reflects the environment.
• Professionals in the décor industry can offer frosted glass that has been specially processed and does not give glare.
• There are still museum glasses, devoid of any drawbacks - they deserve special attention of needlewomen, but their price can greatly scare them off.

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Homemade frames

You can make the frame yourself - it won’t take you much time and effort. When your work is completed, washed and ironed, you can simply insert it into the same hoop in which you embroidered it.

Idea 1

A lacy frame from a lace dessert napkin looks good:

1. Draw a slightly larger circle on the cardboard than a napkin.
2. Inside the circle, draw another, slightly larger than your embroidery.
3. Next, close the small circle with paper, hooking it with a needle so that it does not move, prime the surface with a mixture of acrylic paint and glue with a sponge.
4. Put a napkin on top of the face on the ground, apply the paint again with a sponge.
5. Carefully remove the napkin, dry the print of lace.
6. Remove the paper from the center of the circle, firmly glue the embroidered applique.

Idea 2

Ceiling skirtings are useful in creating a vintage frame:

1. Put on the cardboard the size of the embroidered canvas, add the thickness of the baseboard.
2. Attach the embroidery with double-sided tape or glue.
3. Skirting boards cut the desired size at an angle of 45 degrees.
4. Paint the desired color, after drying, varnish.
5. Leave to dry completely, and then glue to cardboard.

Important! Here are some more ideas:

• You can stick on a very simple frame surface of beads or rhinestones. It remains only to attach a ring for hanging the picture on the wall - the frame is ready.
• It’s quite simple and affordable for everyone to make a passe-partout from cardboard, felt, velvet paper, fabric or any other suitable material.
• You can transform the old frame, supplementing it with some decor elements - it all depends on your imagination.

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Passepartout

Using the frame with the mat, you can more effectively highlight the embroidered image, which will be combined with the surface of the walls of the room in which the work will hang. They are carefully pulled on a hardboard or cardboard. Moreover, in some situations, to stretch the embroidered work, the use of a subframe is necessary.

Important! Passe partout is smooth, embossed or textured (“velvet”).

The optimum color of the passe-partout makes it possible to focus on the important details of embroidery, on its overall composition. Wrong matched mat can ultimately spoil all the work.

Important! Passe-partout should be neutral - it should not distract from embroidery, but rather concentrate attention on it.

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Common mistakes when choosing a frame

To choose a frame for cross-stitch, some rules must be followed correctly:

• You can not allow the frame design of an embroidered canvas to crawl to the fore, attracting attention to itself.
• Without protecting the work with glass, you doom it to fouling and burnout.
• An incorrectly selected color of the baguette can make the canvas faded. You should choose the dominant color in the embroidered work. However, it is important not to overdo it. He should not draw all attention to himself. Its task is to emphasize and add harmony.
• Leaving the finished embroidery without a mat is undesirable - it will separate the picture from the frame and emphasize the beauty of the work.

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From this article, you learned the rules for embroidery design. We hope that now you will quickly give each of your work a complete, beautiful look, and decorate your home with them.