Needle painting

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…

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

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

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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…

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…

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…

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…

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.

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

This thread painting pattern is full of fun embroidery stitches. You don't need any experience with thread painting to make it, however some embroidery experience is recommended due to the size and complexity of the design. Happy stitching!

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…

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…

L’artiste lituanienne Jūra Gric a toujours eu une passion pour le textile. Cette dernière l’a conduite à l’art qu’elle pratique aujourd&r

Catch this sneak peek to my first ever e-course on needlepainting for beginners! :) The e-course is going to consist of several modules: Materials, instruments and general tips Long and short stitch basics and common mistakes Exercises Final project And today you can see a preview of the exercises module :) UPDATE: The course is launched! Enroll now The best way to master and polish any skill is to train it over and over. That's just the way it is. Books and theoretical knowledge can only…

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 →…