Work-in-Progress Pictures: Sea Otter
Sea Otter Needle Painting Work-in-Progress Pictures by Tanja Berlin
The sea otter was embroidered for my sister and brother in law’s Christmas present.
The sea otter is worked in the method of needle painting which is the blending of straight long and short stitches using different shades of DMC embroidery cotton (floss).
The embroidery is worked on a blue satin fabric in a 12 inch by 12 inch stretcher bar frame. The fabric is pinned onto the stretcher bar frame so that it is drum tight.
The embroidery is worked from the background to the foreground so that a dimensional picture is created.
The embroidery is worked in eight shades of DMC cotton embroidery thread and took approximately 60 hours to stitch and is 7 1/2 inches wide by 3 3/4 inches high.