Embroidery needle painting

Continuing from where we left last time, let's take a look at the “non-conventional” placement of colors at needlepainting. A quick recap for those who missed the previous part of the needlepainting tips: The majority of lessons and tutorials for long and short stitching (including the lesson on this blog) show the traditional way of shading, which goes from top to the bottom in horizontal rows of colors. However, when you come to the actual needlepainting you might find out that the…

Hello everyone Hope your week is going well. For several months I have been working with the idea of providing tutorials on my website – am still tinkering with the idea of uploading some vi…

Dec 30, 2014 - These astounding needlework pieces are by self-taught embroiderer Trish Burr from Cape Town. She has written several books on the technique...

a bit scary though!

Stitch Trish Burr's Pansies in this stitch along. We tackle all the hurdles of needle painting together!

Today I offer you a new case study! So if you ever wondered about the correlation between the number of layers (rows) on long and short stitching and the quality of blending, today's post might answer some of your questions, The task when stitching these 3 shapes was to make a transition from yellow to blue. The first example has only 2 colors: yellow and blue. The second example has 3 colors: yellow → green → blue And the third example has 7 colors: yellow → 2 mid shades of yellow-green →…

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