Recently, needlework is becoming fashionable again! Women embroider, knit, weave, sew ... To improve their skills, share their “brags” or just ask for advice, go to special sites. Let's talk about the popular needlework portal "Osinka". Cross-stitch - this will be the second issue that we will analyze today.
Advantages and disadvantages of the Osinka portal
Embroiderers prefer to communicate on the above portal for the following reasons:
- find friends and like-minded people;
- receive information on such types of needlework as machine embroidery, gold embroidery, bead paintings (sequins, wool, stitch, ribbons), cross-stitch;
- Osinka allows you to share patterns and experiences;
- on this portal there are separate sites for sewing, knitting, and master classes;
- craftswomen study remotely or attend courses (offline) on different types of needlework;
- site visitors can purchase books and handicrafts.
This service is constantly updated and is a mega-market. It is this variety that scares away many craftswomen.
Firstly, a beginner is simply drowning in a large amount of information and cannot find a solution to his problem.
Secondly, the Osinka club design is inconvenient: cross-stitch patterns are placed in front of the topic, and when you click on them, the inscription “The file was deleted by the user” is often displayed.
Thirdly, many schemes are presented in the PM program, which not all needlewomen have.
Fourth, user registration is required for more information.
Cross stitch is in fashion again
Osinka (forum) as an informant is an excellent adviser for beginner embroiderers. Here you can find out information about stitches and sets, tools and designers, needlework history and craftswoman mistakes.
Beginners will be prompted how to embroider so that there are no long-term construction; how to decorate paintings without the services of a baguette workshop; at what prices sell their work; how to apply embroidery for practical purposes: decorate clothes, curtains, tablecloths, make handmade trifles; what to do if a mistake is made.
If you go to the section "Cross-stitch", "Osinka" registered users open access to classified information. Firstly, here you can download rare schemes; secondly, communicate through private messages with a specific user and exchange classified information.
When downloading schemes, many beginners do not look at links and do not immediately study the downloaded file. Be careful, as moderators do not have time to filter out unscrupulous users who throw infected links or poor-quality schemes.
How to work with circuits from the Internet to avoid mistakes
When a novice embroiderer sees a beautiful picture and a diagram for her, then without hesitation downloads it and sits down to work. And only after a couple of months of painstaking work he notices shapeless spots, where the snow is violet-gray tones, and wolves with a green tint. To avoid a sad experience, remember a few rules for working with the scheme:
- Find feedback on this scheme, ask for the sewn work of the craftswomen.
- Download the file, unzip and examine immediately. Compare the colors and their quantity with the image. If the colors of the threads do not match the image or a lot of single numbers, then this may be a run.
- If you have any questions, immediately ask them to the one who downloaded the scheme (cross-stitch). Osinka and similar portals are multi-year projects. Old users leave, and new ones appear, therefore it is difficult to find a specific person after a long time.
If you still decide to sew a run or a poor-quality scheme, then be prepared for inaccuracies. In addition, try to embroider the painting completely, then in a baguette workshop they will help to design it in a better perspective.