Needle painting embroidery

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

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…

A blog about hand embroidery and needlework adventures

As you probably know, I am very fond of the embroidery technique called long and short stitching, and I hope more and more people fall in love with it and see that it is actually not that scary and not that hard. Well, it is not that easy either and it requires some time and patience to get friendly with it. But it is totally worth it, isn't it? By today I actually have plenty of material on this blog about long and short stitch as well as needle painting. So I decided to gather it all up in…

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…

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A couple weeks back, we chatted about different resources that can help embroiderers (from beginners to advanced) take the plunge into needlepainting, which is often viewed as an advanced, hard-to-conquer technique. Today, I want to highlight another really good resource for those who want to learn the art of realistic shading with needle and thread. ...

Before we start, an important announcement! I'm having a SALE in my Etsy shop: everything is down 15% until the end of March. Hurry up to make your purchase, especially if you already have my designs in the cart! Now, let's get back to the topic :) When you work long and short stitch, one of your main goals should be the correct direction of your stitches. As long as you achieve that, the surface of your stitching will be smooth, and the blending will be easier. Here are two examples. On the…

Needle Painting is also known as Thread Painting, Painting with a Needle, Long and Short Stitch and Silk Shading. I have kits in animals. birds and flowers.