Designing your own home is a favorite pastime for women. They try to make it not only convenient for all the inhabitants, but also want it to reign in an atmosphere of comfort and warmth. Do-it-yourself cute little things help you achieve this best. The use of a knitted blanket or bedspread will especially transform the interior.
Preparation for knitting a plaid
With proper organization of the process, even an inexperienced skilled worker can do such a job. It is sufficient to clearly define the following details:
- determine the color;
- choose what shape your product will be;
- decide which yarn to knit;
- decide what to knit: knitting or crocheting.
After you decide on these items, you can buy yarn and start knitting.
Choice of colors
Color in the decoration of housing is a very important point. Needlework should be in harmony with the furniture and decoration of the room, as well as correspond to the style. You can give the room more coziness and comfort. For example, use the following moves:
- if the windows are located on the north side, the use of a red or orange bright shade will visually give the room warmth;
- if the room is filled with sunshine, giving it a little cool will help the choice of a plaid of cold tone;
- Another great move is to play in contrast.
Determine the shape of the plaid
Usually the bedspread for a sofa is knitted according to the shape of the furniture: a rectangle for a classic, a circle or an oval, of four parts connected diagonally for an angular sofa. This criterion also implies which option you would prefer to use: a lace, elegant wrap or a dense, warm plaid.
The first option is used to give the appearance of the room more beauty and grace, and has a completely decorative function. The second allows you to create the atmosphere of warmth of the home. It not only serves as a quality protection for furniture, but also helps to keep warm if used as a blanket. There is also a difference in size: the cover can completely envelop the sofa or cover it only partially.
Material selection
This criterion will completely depend on what purpose the product will perform (only decorative or will combine decor and comfort). Another important indicator will be the price of the material. Each needlewoman chooses her own yarn with which she would like to work. But there are several preferred options:
- Silk. Great for beautiful, lace wraps. Products from it give the interior a touch of luxury. The only negative can be considered a fairly high cost.
- Viscose. This is an analogue of artificial silk, but an order of magnitude cheaper.
- Cotton. The most widely used material for light wraps. Easy to wash. The color palette of yarn has many nice colors.
- Wool. Great for tight rugs that you can wrap in to warm up.
- Acrylic. Synthetic yarn, ideal for various variations of this thing. Holds shape and color for a long time. And also has a relatively affordable price.
IMPORTANT! The plaid has rather big sizes. And its creation is an occupation that requires a lot of time and patience. If you want to reduce these costs, choose a thicker thread.
Choosing the right tools
You can knit a sofa bedspread with knitting needles or crochet. The choice of tool will depend on the thickness of the yarn you will knit. The thicker the yarn, the larger the tool number you will need.
ATTENTION! In order to understand what number of knitting needles you need to knit this or that yarn, fold the thread twice. This will be the desired thickness.
Typically, yarn manufacturers indicate the tool number on the packaging.
It is also important to pay attention to the material of the knitting needles or hook:
- Plastic are suitable for knitting light yarn. They can be deformed in the process.
- Wooden, as well as plastic ones, are subject to deformation and under severe pressure can break.
- Metallic are the most widely used. They are very comfortable, but be sure to wipe the surface with a soft cloth before use. This will remove a small coating from the metal, which makes it difficult to advance the loops in the process, and may stain the threads.
Knitting technology
You can knit a blanket in two ways: with a single piece of cloth or with individual elements. A single piece is most often knitted small products.
For knitting needles, plaids connected in the technique of shadow knitting look great. With this method, a pattern is formed on the canvas when alternating the reverse and front loops.
Another interesting option will be the execution of a plaid from knitted stripes. They do not have to be made with the same pattern; several variations can be combined. Of the patterns, it is better to choose various convex weaves.
If you want to crochet a beautiful sofa cover, you can use two options. The first is to impose the necessary number of motives, combining them into a single canvas. For elements, it is better to choose a geometrically correct shape: square, rhombus, hexagon. A combination of contrasting color motifs in a checkerboard pattern will look spectacular.
You can also make the canvas with ribbon lace. As the name implies, lace ribbons of the desired length are knitted and in the process are attached to each other.
Decorating a plaid
To create an extraordinary little thing with your own hands, which will look not only charming, but also original to tie the canvas is not enough. It is still necessary to beautifully design the edges. To do this, you can use:
- Lace border, various configurations. It can go in a straight line, be typed from various elements in the form of flowers, butterflies and leaves, and also have an uneven edge (denticles, semicircles, steps).
- Fringe, bells or pompons.
- For spoke products, you can use a knitted ornament around the edge.
How to use a knitted blanket in the interior
Knitted plaid can not only serve as a wrap for the sofa in the living room. Widespread use can be found in the children's room. There it can serve not only as a cloak to protect furniture or bedding, but also as a cozy and warm blanket. It can also be used as a rug on which your treasure can play calmly without fear of the cold.
You can also take this little thing on trips and gatherings in nature. By spreading it on the grass, you can rest and gain strength.
Also, this cozy product will help you cheer up, when after a hard day you’ll be tired, you will be wrapped in it and, sitting on the sofa with a cup of fragrant tea, you will watch your favorite movie.
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