Some craftswomen embroider beautiful and complex paintings, focusing on ready-made drawings or images that they come up with in their own imagination, but most of the needlewomen who are engaged in embroidery cannot create bright and neat embroidery without special schemes. With the help of the scheme, you can embroider any picture, even the most complex, and therefore it is important to learn how to read the schemes correctly.
Instructions
Step 1
Schemes are different - color and black and white. Color schemes are very convenient - they show shades of colors, and also in any scheme there is a grid of small cells that correspond to the number of crosses.
Step 2
Sometimes these cells are painted in the desired colors, but if there are a lot of colors, the cells are marked with special characters, which are placed in a separate key for decryption. The second option is most often used in black and white schemes.
Step 3
If you are using a color scheme and are not sure of the shade that is printed in the cell, pay attention to the decoding of the colors - next to each color should be written the number of the floss threads with which you will embroider. Such patterns are used for small embroidery.
Step 4
If the scheme is voluminous and differs in complex color transitions, you will have to learn to decipher the symbolism that is used in the scheme - each color is indicated in such schemes by a certain symbol.
Step 5
Study the key that deciphers the meanings of each legend and various lines, and then try to remember which color each legend corresponds to. Pay special attention to the white (empty) cells of the diagram. Sometimes these cells mean that you do not need to embroider anything in them, but in some diagrams they also mean a color - all this must be spelled out in the key.
Step 6
Since embroiderers use threads from different manufacturers, usually several different shades and brands of floss threads are indicated in the diagrams, corresponding to the same symbol.
