Needle painting embroidery

A blog about hand embroidery and needlework adventures

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…

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 :)

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.

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…

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…

a bit scary though!

Meet embroidery artist Victoria Matthewson, who paints exquisite pieces of art with needle and thread – each one embroidered meticulously in luminous silk thread and each taking weeks or even months to stitch.