How to fix the thread in cross stitch

Thread with embroidery need very carefully, and firmly secured inside the stitches. This is necessary in order for the embroidery carefully looked, was smooth, without tubercles and not dissolve in the wash. Also for nodules can cling to the thread in the embroidery process, which can interfere.

The first method of fixing the thread fits in the case, if the embroidery is planned for an even number of threads. Onatmeasures if you stitch in two threads, you need to take a single cut thread, but the length must be two times greater than that which you are usually embroidered and folded in half. Then you insert the thread to the needle so that the cut ends were held in the ear, and at the end of the thread was solid. At the beginning embroidery enter a needle from the wrong side, but do not pull all the thread on the front, and if youkeep the loop.
Then you need to bring a needle close to the wrong side and put it in a loop. It remains only to tighten the noose and continue to embroider further on the scheme.

The following method will suit you if you are using any number of threads. In this case, the beginning of the thread hiding under the stitches. For this you need to start the embroidery from the inside and leave a tail of thread with a length of about three inches. Then you need to do stitches so that the tail was captured by the stitches and the thread was closed. If the tail was too long, it can be cut. Just be careful of not less than two inches of thread was fastened, otherwise the embroidery may blossom.

Another way of fixing the thread - with a temporary knot. This method is justified if the tail of the thread too interfere with the embroidery. To do this, you make a thread a temporary knot, which does not allow to blossom your embroidery, but when you finish the embroidery in this segment, with a needle zaprashivala tail in the ready-made crosses on the reverse side.