Needle painting embroidery tutorials

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…

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!

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…

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

Part 2 of the needle painting stitch along. Hop on and practice the long and short stitching.

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.

What is thread painting? MCreativeJ shares more on this hand embroidery technique, along with patterns, kits, and resources.

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…

Little by little I've mentioned in my posts some mistakes that you might be making as a hand embroidery beginner and warned you from some other things that you can do as a rookie. But all of it is scattered around the blog, so I thought it is a high time I make a compilation and gather all of that in one place. So here we go! The list of the most common mistakes as a hand embroidery beginner: 1. Not taking your fabric out of the hoop after stitching session So, let's say, you have an…