Needle painting
also known as thread painting, silk shading, soft
shading painting with a needle and long and short stitch is a hand
embroidery technique, creating realistic pictures using
needle and thread, embroidering long and short straight stitches.
The
long and short stitches are worked in rows in a range of shades to
closely represent the animal or flower that is being worked. Each new
row of long and short stitches splits the stitches of the preceding
row in this way the long and short stitches blend together. The
blending of the stitches helps create a realistic design.
Needle
painting is not a well known technique but I would say it is my
favourite technique, as I love to make the flowers and animals that I
do realistic. This technique takes a few hours of practice to perfect
but once the technique becomes familiar it is a very
forgiving stitch. If there are gaps you can go back and fill
them in or you can embroider over some stitches if you make
a mistake; unlike a counted technique which has to be unpicked if one
stitch is counted incorrectly.
I design all the needle painting kits
myself, most of which I take from photographs or
real life.
Each
Needle painting kit has an Instruction Booklet. The Instruction
booklet has a actual size colour picture of the embroidery and
instructions typed onto 8 1/2 by 11 (A4) sheets of paper making a
booklet of 5 - 18 pages (depending on the level of the kit) and with
18 - over 50 diagrams to guide you through the embroidery. The
instructions are detailed, covering all the little tricks that I
would teach in a class - to make the embroidery perfect.
The fabric comes with the design hand drawn on so there are no
worries about transferring the design.
Click
Here! to see examples of diagrams used in a kit.
I also
do embroidery commissions
of flowers, animals or beloved pets.
To see some examples of previous commissions that I have worked and
details on costs see Commissions then
email me with your request.
I
offer embroidery classes in all types of embroidery, please Contact
me for any requests.
