Needle painting

Beautiful bird embroidery.

If you're a fan of needle painting, you are most likely familiar with Trish Burr's exquisite embroidery, where she uses needle and thread to "paint" embroidered vignettes - primarily, flowers and birds. Trish has a substantial list of published books available for the embroiderer, books that are

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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…

This amazing piece of Embroidery is by sarahjperrydesigns . The dimensional aspect of this piece is breathtaking. It really captures the bird in flight! Textile artist & designer. Using fine em…

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.

Now, this is not exactly a “secret”... but it is also hardly ever brought up, although I do see beginners making this mistake. Congratulations on the 10th post of the needlepainting tips! Wow, who could have thought that there is so much to explore in this area of hand embroidery?? But let me tell you, I actually have more topics to cover! They are just waiting for their turn, haha. Today's topic, in my opinion, is quite important to grasp if you want to master needlepainting, especially, if…