Long and short stitch tutorial

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…

The long and short stitch, also known as thread-painting or needle-painting, is a form of freestyle embroidery, often used for filling big areas and shading flower petals or bird feathers in needle painting. The characteristic feature of this stitch is that the stitches of the first row are worked in such a way that they are alternately long and short. Read more to learn some tips to make long and short stitches with ease. Click to watch tutorial now or Pin for later!

Long and Short embroidery stitch, also called needle painting or thread painting, is a fill type of stitch that produces … Read More

This topic is something I've wanted to cover for a while now. It is especially beneficial for beginner embroiderers who are currently exploring long and short stitching and needlepainting. So, today's topic is actually not just “using long and short stitch as a filler”. I mean, we all know that it can be used as one, right? And we all know the main “how's” of using it as a filler: outline the shape and fill with long and short stitches. In fact, the main point that I wanted to speak about…

Take your embroidery skills to the next level by learning how to do the long & short stitch used in the needle-painting technique.

Let's make long and hsort stitching easy by splitting the process into sections

Learn how to long and short stitch form this tutorial and my tips!

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 →…

While working on the new spread for the journal, I thought maybe I should share a little tip with you on how to fill irregular shapes with long and short stitching! Especially since there was a similar request recently. See all the other posts on needlepainting tips here. By the way, if you recognize the motif, tell in the comments below! :) I was previously asked about how to fill large spaces with long and short stitching. Like, when you have a motif and you want to fill the white space…

The long and short stitch, also known as “thread-painting” or “needle-painting”, is a form of freestyle embroidery, often used for filling big areas and shading flower petals or bird feathers in needle painting. Head to the Easy To Make designs YouTube channel, watch a video tutorial and learn to embroider long and short stitch. Pin for later or click to watch now!

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The long and short stitch is a classic needlepoint technique that will give your creations depth and dimension. From traditional samplers to complex realistic landscape scenes, the long and short stitch can help you create the perfect masterpiece. Read on to learn all about the needlepoint long and short stitch!

Threads Across the Web: Long and Short Stitch, An Alternative Method

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Tutorial to do Long and short stitch with instructions. This is best used for filling in large areas of embroidery designs like flower petals and leaves

Learning hand embroidery is both fun and relaxing, plus it's an easy way to create beautiful art with fabric and thread. Getting started in embroidery may seem intimidating at first, but most patterns only require

It goes by several names but is perhaps most widely known as Long and Short Stitch and but why it is called this is a mystery to me! Although the first and last rows contain short stitches, all the other rows consist entirely of long stitches. Japanese embroidery calls the technique sashinui which is described as "a stitch used to fill an area with different layers of threads, which are superimposed on the threads below or inserted between them". I don’t think that 'long and short stitch' is…

Learn how to fill the parts of embroidery design with texture and color with these six embroidery stitches: Seed stitch, French knots, Long and short stitch,...

Long and short stitch. This stitch I avoided for quite awhile when I was learning to embroider. I thought it was too slow and didn't understand how to handle it so it looked reasonable. There was a period I didn't even like how it looked. I just didn't want to do it. But somewhere my