by Laurence | Aug 25, 2017 | Needle painted peony, Needle Painting, Techniques
Needle painted Peony This project is fully embroidered with long and short stitch. The purpose of this embroidery is to realize a project in needle painting, which is not necessarily obvious. I know that many of you find this technique very difficult and sometimes,...
by Laurence | Sep 1, 2017 | Needle painted peony, Needle Painting, Techniques
Peony, petals 2, 3 and 4 Here are the necessary explanations for the realization of the petals 2, 3 and 4. Petal 2 This petal is embroidered with the colors n° 3716, 962, 961, 3832 and 777. Split back stitch 1 thread color 3716. Embroider the top of the petal with...
by Laurence | Sep 17, 2017 | Needle painted peony, Needle Painting, Techniques
Peony, petal 5 Here are the necessary explanations for the realization of the petal. This petal is embroidered with the colors n° 3716, 962, 961, 3832, 3831, 3803, 777 and B5200. Split back stitch with 1 thread and color B5200. Embroider with the color B5200 in the...
by Laurence | Oct 1, 2017 | Needle painted peony, Needle Painting, Techniques
Peony, petal 6 and 7 Here are the necessary explanations for the realization of the 2 petals Petal 6 This petal is embroidered with the colors n° B5200, 3716, 962, 961, 3832, 3831 and 777. Begin with split backstitch 1 thread and color B5200. Embroider with color...
by Laurence | Oct 15, 2017 | Needle painted peony, Needle Painting, Techniques
Peony, petals 8, 9 and 10 Here are the explanations necessary for the realization of the 3 petals. Petal 8 This petal is embroidered with the colors DMC n° B5200, 3716, 962, 961, 3832, 3831, 777 and 3803. Begin with split backstitch 1 thread and the color B5200....
by Laurence | Oct 29, 2017 | Needle painted peony, Needle Painting, Techniques
Peony, petal 14, stem and leaves Here are the explanations necessary for the realization of the 14th petal, the stem and the leaves Petal 14 This petal is embroidered with the colors B5200, 3716, 962, 961, 3832, 3831 and 777. Embroider the outline of the petal with...
by Laurence | Nov 10, 2017 | Needle painted peony, Needle Painting
Peony, petals 15, 11 and 13 Here are the explanations necessary for the realization of petals 15, 11 and 13. Petal 15 This petal is embroidered with the colors B5200, 3716, 962, 3832 and 3831. Embroider the outline of the petal with split backstitch 1 thread and the...
by Laurence | Nov 26, 2017 | Needle painted peony, Needle Painting, Techniques
Peony, petal 12 Here are the explanations necessary for the realization of the petal 12. Petal 12 This petal is embroidered with the colors B5200, 3716, 962, 961, 3832, 3831 and 777. Embroider the outline of the petal with split backstitch 1 thread and color B5200 ...
by Laurence | Dec 10, 2017 | Needle painted peony, Needle Painting, Techniques
Peony, petals 12b and 16 Here are the explanations necessary for the realization of the petals 12b and 16. Petal 12b This petal is embroidered with the colors n° 961, 3832, 3831, 777 and 3803. Embroider the outline of the petal with split backstitch 1 thread and the...
by Laurence | Jan 20, 2018 | Needle painted Morning Glories, Needle Painting
Needle painted Morning Glories This project is carried out mainly in long and short stitch. This is our second project using the needle painting technique. After realizing the peony, I chose this design because of its difference with the previous work. Indeed the...
by Laurence | Feb 2, 2018 | Needle painted Morning Glories, Needle Painting
Morning Glories, part one Here are the explanations of the upper part of this design. I added the following 2 colors, DMC 3078 and 1026 to the palette proposed in the introductory post.The stitches used are the long and short stitch with 1 thread and the stem stitch...
by Laurence | Feb 16, 2018 | Needle painted Morning Glories, Needle Painting
Morning Glories, part 2 Here are the explanations of the upper part of the design. I added the following 2 colors, DMC 3078 and 1026 to the palette proposed in the introductory post.The stitches used are the long and short stitch with 1 thread and the stem stitch with...
by Laurence | Mar 9, 2018 | Needle painted Morning Glories, Needle Painting
Morning Glories, part 3 Here are the explanations of the upper part of the design. I added the following 2 colors, DMC 3078 and 225 to the palette proposed in the introductory post. The stitches used are the long and short stitch with 1 thread and the stem stitch with...
by Laurence | Mar 24, 2018 | Needle painted Morning Glories, Needle Painting
Morning Glories, part 4 I added the following 2 colors, DMC 3078 and 225 to the palette proposed in the introductory post. The stitches used are the long and short stitch with 1 thread and the stem stitch with 2 threads. I remind you that to get a nice result, it is...
by Laurence | Apr 20, 2018 | Needle Painting
This poll has ended (since 6 years). Which one of these birds would you like to embroider? Oiseau jaune 47.92% Oiseau gris 39.58% Oiseau bleu...
by Laurence | May 4, 2018 | Needle painted yellow bird, Needle Painting
Yellow bird This project is embroidered mainly in long and short stitch with 1 thread. Here is our 3rd embroidery in needle painting technique. After making a peony and morning glories, I thought we might venture into making a bird. I know it is a subject that is very...
by Laurence | May 17, 2018 | Needle painted yellow bird, Needle Painting
Yellow bird, body In this post, we will embroider the body of the bird. As I suspected, I did not use all my first choice and finally, I used the colors DMC 3799, 535, 3022, 372, 3821, 3822 and 746 and I discarded definitively the colors 3820, 677 and 371. Preceding...
by Laurence | Jun 1, 2018 | Needle painted yellow bird
Yellow bird, tail and wing Here are the explanations necessary for the realization of the tail and the wing. For that, I used the colors DMC 3842, 517, 930, 931, 932, 310 and B5200. The blue lines mark the direction of the stitches in the main part of the body of the...
by Laurence | Jun 23, 2018 | Needle painted yellow bird
Yellow bird, head In this post, you will find the necessary explanations for the realization of the bird’s head. We used the following colors: DMC B5200, 310, 517, 3842, 3753, 930, 931 and 932. Start by delimiting the lower part of the beak with a split...
by Laurence | Jul 6, 2018 | Needle painted yellow bird
Yellow bird, legs and trunk The colors used to embroider the legs are DMC 931, 3753 and black. The color used for the trunk is the House of Embroidery stranded cotton Bark 72. The colors used for the moss are DMC 501, 320 and 368. As usual, embroider the outline of...
by Laurence | Sep 14, 2018 | Needle painted Tulips, Needle Painting
Needle painted Tulips This design is entirely embroidered with long and short stitch. This embroidery is the 4th in our series of needle paintings. After the peony, the morning glories and the tit, you chose the tulips among the 3 engravings that I proposed to you. I...
by Laurence | Sep 20, 2018 | Needle painted Tulips, Needle Painting
Needle painted Tulips Flower n°1 Petals 1 to 3 Petal n°1 You will notice that the colors 893 and 3833, as well as 819 and 225, are relatively similar. I often use them quite close to each other. If in the photos you do not necessarily distinguish the shades, the end...
by Laurence | Oct 5, 2018 | Needle painted Tulips, Needle Painting
Needled painted tulips Flower n°1 Petals 4 and 5 Petal n°4 For this petal, I have not used any new color I used colors 221, 3831, 3833, 760, 725 and 746. As usual, border the top of the petal with split backstitch and 1 thread in a neutral color (eg 760). Drawing the...
by Laurence | Oct 19, 2018 | Needle painted Tulips, Needle Painting
Needled painted tulips Flower n°1 Petal 6, right side To embroider this petal, I used the colors 3833, 760, 224, 225, 893, 3078, 725, 369, 471 and 367. As usual, outline the petal with split backstitch 1 thread and the color 760. Start with the right side of the petal...
by Laurence | Oct 27, 2018 | Needle painted Tulips, Needle Painting
Needle painted tulips Flower n°1 Petal 6, left side To embroider this petal, I used the colors 893, 760, 224, 225, 3078, 445, 725, 369, 471 and 367. Start by embroidering the edge of the petal with the color 893 and leaving empty spaces as in the picture. Fill in the...
by Laurence | Nov 24, 2018 | Needle painted Tulips, Needle Painting
Needle painted tulips Flower n°2 Petal 1 To embroider this petal, I used colors 893, 760, 224, 445, 725, 472, 471 and 221. Start by embroidering the edge of the petal with split backstitch and color 893. Start the petal by embroidering with the same color 893. Extend...
by Laurence | Dec 14, 2018 | Needle painted Tulips, Needle Painting
Needle painted tulips Flower n°2 Petal 3 To embroider this petal, I used colors 3831, 893, 746, 224, 445, 725, 369, 760, 471, 472, 304 and 221. Start by embroidering the edge of the petal with split backstitch and colors 3831 and 224. I turned the embroidery 180 ° to...
by Laurence | Jan 4, 2019 | Needle painted Tulips, Needle Painting
Needle painted tulips Flower n°2 Petal 5 To embroider this petal, I used the colors 224, 893, 760, 225, 746, 445, 725, 369, 472, 471, 520, 742, 221 and 304. Start by embroidering the edge of the petal with split back stitch and color 224. Start by embroidering with...
by Laurence | Jan 19, 2019 | Needle painted Tulips, Needle Painting
Needle painted tulips Stems and leaves To embroider the stems and leaves, I used the colors 369, 368, 367 and 520. I chose to embroider the stems and leaves in the soberest possible way because the strong point of this embroidery is the flowers.I did not put detailed...
by Laurence | Jun 15, 2019 | Needle Painting
Orchids This embroidery has a history. One day, my mother who is an art bookbinder brought me this book saying “I’m sure it’ll interest you” and she was right, he’s just BEAUTIFUL. The book “Des fleurs...
