Needle painting

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

These astounding needlework pieces are by self-taught embroiderer Trish Burr from Cape Town. She has written several books on the technique, contributed widely to magazines and teaches throughout South Africa and overseas. Trish lives in Cape town, South Africa with her husband and three children. Trish willingly shares her knowledge with fellow embroiderers, and in her own words she says, “We need to keep hand embroidery alive - if we hug our ideas to ourselves, they will become lost and…

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

Join me for another year of free mini-embroidery patterns as part of the Floral Garden Bunting stitch-along! Free to email subscribers :)

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…

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.

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. ...

Drawn with “embroidery” isn’t something new, while most of those thread painting is about animal and human. Apparently, Russian artist