Church embroidery is a complex and multifaceted art that requires a special skill, patience and perseverance from the embroiderer. In order to embroider an icon, it is necessary to think over each element of the future embroidery and pay an equal amount of attention to each fragment of the scheme, creating neat and correct seams. Often, embroiderers have difficulties embroidering halos on icons - halos should be perfectly round, but novice craftswomen do not always get this shape. However, there is a way to embroider a neat round halo, even if you are embroidering an icon for the first time.
Instructions
Step 1
Do not lay the golden silk thread with which you are embroidering a halo in parallel stitches, but in a circle. Begin to lay the thread along the outer rounded contour of the halo. Draw a circle on the fabric in advance and secure the gold thread on the created line with "in the attachment" stitches.
Step 2
Make small indents between the attaching stitches - no more than 6 mm if you are embroidering a small icon. Guide the attachment stitches from the edge to the center of the circle. Then unfold the gold thread and start sewing the second row in a circle, aligning the thread with the already sewn round outline. Under each stitch in the previous row, sew a new pinning stitch.
Step 3
Attachment stitches can also be staggered by stitching between two previous stitches. Similarly, at the end of each row, unrolling the warp thread, embroider the entire halo.
Step 4
Since each subsequent circle of the halo turns out to be smaller than the previous one, decrease the distance between the attachment points with each circle.
Step 5
If you are embroidering for the first time, in addition to the rounded outline of the halo, draw radial lines on the fabric along which you can orient the attachment stitches. A halo embroidered using this technique turns out to be perfectly round and beautiful, with rays diverging from the center to the sides.
