After cats and dogs, the horse is considered the most beloved and loyal animal. Once she helped to hunt, engage in farming and travel to entire nations, but today her work is also sports and treatment of patients. So, hippotherapy (horseback riding) is recommended for children with cerebral palsy and developmental delay. In addition, there is nothing nicer than looking at a prancing horse. This is probably why horse cross-stitching is one of the most popular among all natural motifs.
Cross-World Masterpieces
The most experienced needlewomen of the whole variety prefer to choose copies of world masterpieces. If the classics have repeatedly addressed this topic, then why not repeat them. Only you need to understand that such a cross-stitch of a horse can take far more than one month. However, the resulting result will please, perhaps, not one generation, if correctly
embroidered picture.
Many well-known manufacturers have long been producing ready-made sets for their customers based on famous paintings. It can be either exact copies or variations on a theme. Hardy's Boat Trip, Albrecht's Horses at the Porch and other paintings have long found their embroiderers. And if among the finished work was not found necessary, you can always use special programs and create your own reproduction.
Popular Kits
But among embroidery kits, there are also bestsellers. Such works can be found all over the world and with completely different people. Some patterns are already used for embroidery by more than one generation. The reasons for this may be different, but perhaps the most important is that it turns out a really beautiful cross-stitch.
The white horse is most often found in these works. Such sets as "Wave", "Russian troika", "Night walk", perfectly demonstrate the grace and beauty of this animal. These paintings are masterpieces in themselves and can be an excellent decoration of the interior. And therefore they can be safely presented to friends and relatives for any holiday.
Children's embroidery
But not only adults love to cross stitch. Increasingly, this needlework finds its fans among children. Therefore, in the proposed sets there is sure to be a simple cross-stitch pattern. A horse on it is often a toy or plays with children. Despite the fact that this is usually a small canvas, and there are no more than 15 colors in them, they look very nice. Such horses are often embroidered by adults to decorate children's rooms.
Symbol of the year
But the horse cross stitch became especially popular in 2013 and 2014. The fact is that this entire animal will reign throughout the current year. And many wanted to make a gift, depicting the symbol of the year, with their own hands. In addition, the presence of a horse in the house, albeit embroidered, promises success in all endeavors in 2014. Therefore, all manufacturers have New Year and holiday images of horses in embroidery kits.
They are happy to wish their owners good luck and happiness, wink and touchingly hold out a horseshoe. You can find both complex and time-consuming sets of work, and simple, literally for one evening. The former are likely to be embroidered to decorate the home, while the latter are gifted to loved ones. If such a scheme could not be mastered by the beginning of the new year, you can decorate the wall of the room now. Cross-stitch horses are always relevant.
No matter how many years have passed, the pictures embroidered with a cross will please the eye. Decorated with baguette and under glass, they, like world masterpieces of painting, can be passed on from generation to generation. And therefore you should not regret such work of time and money. The richer and brighter the cross-stitch will look, the more attention it will attract. Especially if it will be graceful horses.