Embroidery with rhinestones: how to make a picture for a beginner

Handicraft for women has always been not only an opportunity to spend time with advantage, but also to show their creative abilities. Now a very popular hobby is embroidery with rhinestones. If you have never studied it, but only saw the finished works, learn tips and useful recommendations, and you will be able to create your first masterpiece in the near future.

Diamond embroidery with rhinestones

If you ever worked with beads or paillettes, creating patterns and whole pictures from small elements, you have an idea of how laborious and laborious work it is to sew each part to the base in accordance with the scheme. Diamond embroidery with rhinestones is similar, but the process of creating a mosaic pattern in this way is simpler. You do not need a needle and thread, as the painting is done by applying details on the fabric base with the adhesive layer applied. The work, of course, will require a lot of time and patience, but the result you will get much faster than in the case of embroidery with beads or paillettes. The convenience of work and the magnificent impression of the finished panel, obtained as a result, made this kind of needlework very popular among modern masters.

Materials and Tools

Embroidery with rhinestones is a responsible and painstaking work that will require you to organize the process and the workplace well. To do this you will need the following:

• Tissue base.
• Pattern pattern.
• Glue.
• Rhinestones matching the pattern colors.
• Tweezers.
• Containers for sorting strasses.
• Elements of the design of the picture (frame, glass, fastening for hanging).

And also it is necessary - a flat free surface for work and good lighting.

Sets for embroidery

One of the most interesting types of needlework, which allows creating true mosaic masterpieces, is embroidery with rhinestones. Kits, which have everything you need for work, greatly facilitate and accelerate the process of creating a picture. The assortment of such sets is very wide, however, their cost is quite high: from several hundred rubles to thousands. The price is determined by the size of the product received (it, as a rule, is indicated on the package and in the description of the goods), and also by the type of the rhinestones. Naturally, Swarovski crystals are more expensive than plastic parts. The sets always indicate what is included in the kit, as well as how filled the canvas with the elements of the pattern (a partial calculation or one hundred percent, that is, the entire field of the picture). Thus, working with sets is, of course, more convenient, especially for the first experiment.

Embroidery with rhinestones paintings: preparation stage

If you decide to stop your choice on the purchased set, then the sequence of actions will be as follows:

1. Decide what size you want to make embroidery (for the first time do not take a big picture).
2. Look at the assortment in the handicraft shops of your city and online stores. Choose the best option for the price, the size of the canvas, the number of colors, the quality of rhinestones and the complexity of the work.
3. When the desired purchase will be in your hands, prepare the workplace. It should be free and light.
4. Unpack the box and lay the contents on the table. Analyze the composition of the kit. If the kit does not have a container under the rhinestones, find suitable objects at home (lids, jars).

Embroidery: step by step execution

1. Look at the pattern pattern. It is more convenient to start from the upper left corner, if you are working with your right hand (for left-handers - on the contrary), so prepare the bags with the rhinestones that are located in the corresponding zone.
   
2. Put the rhinestones of the desired shades in the prepared container.
3. Unbend the protective film from the part of the picture from which you will start working. Do not remove the entire film at once, otherwise the glue layer will dry up, and laying out the entire mosaic at one time is unlikely to work.
4. Lay out part of the first row.
5. Align the elements with a ruler.
6. Lay out as many details of the second row and align both rows vertically and the bottom horizontally.
7. Do the work, laying out the row for a series.
   
8. When all the embroidery is ready, cover it with the attached adhesive to fix it. If no additional tube is included, use a clear lacquer.
9. Draw a picture in a frame under the glass, or leaving a relief surface with crystals.

So, you have seen in what sequence the embroidery is made with rhinestones. Paintings performed on a ready-made scheme are easy to make, but laborious.

Embroidery according to your pattern

Very difficult is the embroidery of rhinestones icons and multi-color photorealistic paintings. And although the choice of blanks is now very large, you may face the problem that you will not find a suitable story or, having mastered several purchased plots, you want to make an exclusive picture. The technology of the embroidery itself does not differ, the difference will be in preparation for work. The sequence of actions is as follows:

1. Find the picture you like.
2. Edit it in Adobe Photoshop or a custom- designed embroidery program for an image consisting of cells with the appropriate number of color shades.
3. Print the workpiece.
4. Buy the necessary rhinestones and transparent glue.
5. Glue the color scheme to the glass, located horizontally.
6. Put the fabric backing on the glass, and put the lamp on under the glass.
7. Work the same way as the previous method, the only difference is that it is necessary to apply the pre-adhesive layer to the tissue site where you will lay out the drawing yourself.

So, you learned how embroidery is made with rhinestones. Choose your preferred method of implementation using a ready-made kit or with the development of your individual version. Acquire the necessary materials and tools. Start creating your masterpiece.