Needle painting embroidery free pattern

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

Today I bring you a new stitch tutorial. Along with the lesson itself, I thought it would be nice to see where it can be used, so you will also see the process of stitching this little blueberry twig :) To be honest, this stitch fascinated me from the first time I saw it in some pictures a long time ago. But when I tried to learn it, it didn't work so after a while I gave up, haha. Well, not really gave up... It's just that if something is not going right I tend to put it away until a better…

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Free hand embroidery project: easy rose embroidery pattern and tutorial

Do you want to embroider a beautiful monarch butterfly? Check out this pattern shared by Emillie Ferris In the art of needle painting, a needle acts like a brush and the thread as the paint, helping you achieve hyper-realistic designs. You can create realistic embroidered pieces using the long and short stitch technique, just like Emillie Ferris (@emillieferris), who makes contemporary embroidery patterns, kits, pins, and original hoop art using traditional methods. Insects are a wonderful…

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

Ansie of Sol y Sombra shares a quick tutorial for modifying a scanned image so you can use it as an embroidery pattern. See her tute.

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. ...

Sometimes we are stumped with what embroidery design we want to use. Perhaps we are bored with our normal go to pattern, or maybe we just can’t find the perfect fit for a project. This amazi…

Trish Burr creates amazing thread painted birds and then shares them with us so we can stitch them. How lucky are we? This is Trish's exquisite little bluebird. By the way, I think all of Trish's avians should be called 'Burrds'! I stitched this several years ago and it was a lot of fun. The bluebird is an adaptation of a painting by Sherry C. Nelson whose books are well worth checking out if you want to try adapting images for your own thread painting projects. Her compositions are…