- How can I decorate a knitted sweater?
- Textile flower
- Decoration with beads
- Decoration with sequins
- Decoration with crystals
- Decoration of knitted sweaters
In the closet of each of us there is not one and not two sweater, which are good for everyone, but for some reason they are not worn. One - out of fashion, another - just tired, the third - does not fit into your favorite style. Each of them can be transformed and perfected. In this article we will tell you how to decorate a sweater with simple decorating techniques.
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Today in fashion the most diverse finishing techniques - from decorative cuts and embroidery to hand-painted. Moreover, special skills or skills for updating things may not be needed. The most difficult way, which requires not only taste, but also professionalism, is considered painting. But with the help of embroidery, applique, decoration paillettes and rhinestones to decorate a knitted sweater with their own hands, even a beginner in needlework can.
The secret is that in today's fashion very simple, but spectacular ways of decorating. You can buy ready-made applications with paillettes, rhinestones and embroidery, and in order to fix them you need only a couple of stitches, and in most cases, and at all - just an iron. But more original and interesting ideas come to mind, if you use simple materials at hand.
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You can decorate a knitted sweater with bulk colors from textiles. This requires a small piece of soft plastic fabric, the edge of which does not crumble during the circumcision.
Important! Good fit knitwear, thin felt or lace. The choice of the invoice will depend on what effect you want to achieve as a result.
Operation:
- Cut the fabric into squares of different or one size. Better - if there are at least eight of them.
- From each square, cut out the simplest outline of the flower - you can prepare the template in advance.
- Fold them together.
- Fasten in the center with any bead in two stitches.
- Thus, you will get one of the very fashionable ornaments of this season.
Important! Choose several types of matching fabrics and make several flowers, which can then be collected in an elegant bouquet. Such a composition can be placed in the décolleté zone or on the shoulder.
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Today, embroidery with beads literally acquired a "second wind".To decorate a sweater with beads or beads, like a real pro, you should first develop the idea of the decor itself.
Important! It should be noted that the figure should be small. For full-scale work, you will need to use the embroidery frame, which is extremely difficult to use when embroidering ready-made wardrobe items. It is better to give preference to repeated miniature motifs, for example, elegant flowers that can be "strewn" sleeves or bodice.
Beads look great in combination with any kind of fabrics, except simple cotton knitwear. Therefore, if you want to decorate a T-shirt of a sports type, it is better to choose another technique for finishing.
Materials for the work of
For work other than beads, you will need:
- marker for fabric or chalk;
- special thin needle and sewing thread in the tone of the selected beads.
Important! You can choose colors yourself - today in fashion as embroidery of different colors, and in tone.
How to work
Mark the outline of your future drawing with a marker or shallow, fix the thread on the wrong side and start embroidering. Accurately small stitches, attaching beads in one direction and exactly to butt, embroider the lines of the contour and after "sew" it with beads from the inside.
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Paillettes decoration is another one of the easiest ways to decorate a sweatshirt with your own hands.
Important! This kind of decor will be especially easy if you use sequins already strung on a thread - they can decorate not only the edge of the neck but also the cuff. Very stylish look great compositions that are located in the decollete zone.
Useful advices:
- In order to decorate a thing with paillettes, whatever the plot of the decor you would like, it is necessary to take into account that expressive and vivid drawing will become the main accent of the image as a whole.
- Remember that sequins will add a luster garment, so when choosing a color and a picture, you need to think carefully.
- The drawing should be large and with smooth, well-defined contours - corners and small parts in this technique can not be recreated.
- If you question your artistic ability, you must first make a stencil, taking as a basis a suitable pattern from a fashion magazine or the Internet.
Important! To decorate a black sweater, the picture can be transferred using a tailor's chalk or a thin piece of soap, and for light things, use special markers for the fabric. Clay is also better to take a special - designed for the fabric, then you can erase the thing without worrying that the decor will fall off.
Operation procedure:
- Apply glue a thin strip on the contour of the pattern. Gently pressing, lay on it thread with paillettes.
- It's best to spread it spirally - from the edges of the picture to the center.
- It is important to ensure that the sequins in the rows are close enough to each other, forming a solid surface.
Important! The tip of the thread is fixed with a drop of glue, and when it is completely dry, you can additionally fix the resulting pattern with threads in a tone, punching it from the inside with free stitches.
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Very elegant and, at the same time, very simple way to decorate sweater - decor with rhinestones. For him, you do not even need a needle and thread - you will only need one iron. Today in any handicraft store there is a huge selection of ready-made motifs from rhinestones. You can choose one of them, but you can show your imagination and create an interesting decor according to your drawing.
Important! Very stylish and simple drawing - chaotic painting, which resembles the starry sky. Also very elegant look vertical strips of different length, which are lined with rhinestones. More complex motifs for decorating things with rhinestones, such as floral designs or complex multicolored patterns, must first be drawn on the fabric. The usual chalk or marker for the fabric - depends on the color of the fabric.
Procedure:
- Place the item on the ironing board and heat the iron to normal temperature.
- Carefully spread the rhinestones in the back - the glue has already been applied to it.
- Cover it with a piece of thin cotton cloth, gently press it with an iron.
- In just a few seconds( especially if you use steam), the rhinestones will be fixed on the fabric.
- You can immediately go to the next fragment.
- When the drawing is completely ready, leave the thing in its expanded state to completely dry it.
Important! In the future, it can be washed manually in water at room temperature.
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Knitwear is the most fertile material for decor. One of the design avant-garde finds is delicate interlacing and decorative cuts, which can only be embodied in knitwear.
In order to decorate the jacket with your own hands, you need a model of quality cotton and scissors. This technique of decoration knitted jackets is very similar to the fashionable decoration of jeans - just as impressive and simple.
Important! Provocative and delicately weave looks on the back.
Work order:
- Fold the jacket strictly vertically and carefully, with an interval of one to two centimeters make a cut back from the neck line to the waist.
Important! The length of each next incision is reduced - the shortest should be on the waist line.
- Now set aside the scissors and lightly pull the thing - you should get elastic knitted ribbons that can be interwoven with each other in any way.
- The simplest of the options is to take the second on top of the ribbon, from the wrong side to the front just throw it over the first one.
- Continue in the same way until the very last cutout.
- Somehow you do not need to fix this decor - it will hold on to the interlacing.
Beautifully and originally decorate a knitted sweater with your own hands is easier than it might initially seem. Refresh the old, unfashionable thing will help personal taste, a little imagination and designer talent.
