Photos of the Alhumdu Lillah cross stitch. You can use the same method to stitch the Salams cross stitch pattern. And for the other Arabic patterns to come with the same border.
The way I worked through the design.
I am left handed. I tend to stitch the right side of the pattern first.
It does not matter which of the pattern you stitch first if you are left
or right handed. What is comfortable to you.
Try to keep your stitches in the same directions.
Left hand, my first stiches go right to left diagonal direction. Pic 2.
Right handed the other direction.
I put a pin where the first stitch is to be.
Started with the middle Lam of Allah. Shows on the pattern
I stitch right to left.
Caught the the ends of the thread on the back
.
Stitched the arm of the Lam to the top. Started again
at the bottom to stitch the next Lam. Started again to
stitch the Alif. I stitched the right side first. Then I
stitched the left side of Allah.
I stitch the smaller symbols after. I thread the ends into
the top of the lam first.
Start the Arabic below. I started in the middle of the
word, shows on the pattern.
This time I stitch the left side first.
This is the right side of the Arabic.
For the English started in the middle.
I stitch quarter of the border at a time.
I hope the photos help
