Needle Painting Embroidery: Fresh Ideas For Beginners

This book is fabulous. The instructions are very clear. I'm a beginner, always wanted to try needle painting, and really glad I bought the book. I was surprised that my first attempt looked similar to the one in the book! Plenty of pictures and as you move through the book its divided sections easy to experienced. It's like having a good friend teaching you. I will treasure this book, and would buy others from the author too.

Well worth the wait! This new title ties in perfectly with Trish's DVD, introducing the techniques of long and short stitch. Trish Burr is a self-taught embroiderer. This book is the perfect introduction for a beginner to master the techniques of long and short stitch, but also challenging enough to satisfy the experienced embroiderer, who is perhaps seeking a smaller project to make into a gift or card. There are fifteen designs including a detailed introduction to long and short stitch and a handy stitch glossary. The photos are clear and combined with clear instructions, that take you through each stage. You will also find the practice motifs that Trish demonstrated exceptionally well in her DVD. All the projects use DMC or Anchor threads (DMC colours listed but you can easily get a conversion chart). My heartfelt thanks to Trish for sharing this wonderful technique with us and for keeping embroidery alive! Happy stitching!

I had got the RSN book first, but this one is far better. Worth every penny.

Gorgeous book with a few step by step instructions. I have done a couple of the birds and it has easy to follow instructions

Excellent guide for those who want to give this type of embroidery a try. It’s guides are well written and easy to follow. The amount of projects included are really good and include both simple starter projects and leading to more advanced projects. I totally recommend this book.

If you were looking for something different this is it. The book starts with the simple things and then you slowly build up the diagrams are very easy to understand I think this book is a must for anybody who has done stump work .you should then know about building up a picture and shading a very good book

Lovely book but not really for beginners , however there are easier books for learning this technique before moving on to this one and I hope one day I can produce this quality of work !

This is a beautiful book, the quality of the the pages and the stunning pictures are great. I bought this book to help teach me needle painting, the book contains transfer patterns and different motifs to trace and practice with.

Tiene muy buenos consejos y tips para pintar con hilo, patrones que se pueden fotocopiar y ampliar, claves de color e instrucciones para llevar a cabo los proyectos. Llegó un poco maltratado y sin envoltura, pero fuera de eso, es hermoso

I bought this book as a gift for my daughter — she likes embroidery and wants to expand her skills in satin embroidery. The book is amazing — colourful photos and detailed descriptions. My daughter loves it and said she is going to study it.

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Really beautiful and easy projects.. good for beginners.. but so many colors of thread is needed

I got this book because I have been learning how to sketch birds, use colored pencils and water color pencil. I have no art training. I thought it would be nice to embroidery some of my sketches and as I searched on the Internet, I discovered this book. Exactly what I was thinking. I embroidered some as a teenager so had some experience with a few stitches. This book is great for a beginner. I have started out with the practice motifs first. So glad I did. Unlike knitting needles, these needles numbers are 1 for largest, 10 for smallest. I also forgot about the fabric grain needs to be correct when you put your hoop on. My first try, was puckered! The book has great instruction and I have been looking at some videos on the Internet regarding the "starting and ending off". I had always used a knot. So glad I know how to do this properly now. I also searched the Internet for storage ideas and found some good ones. (Floss-Away Bags). I also went back to craft store to get a magnifying light. The first small one I bought, OttLite, was too small, missing instructions and no light? Took it back and just got a magnifying light that hangs from my neck. It actually works good. Had 60 % off coupon. So will use this for now but will keep looking around for a better one later. It really speeds things up to see better! I can see this is very time consuming. Hopefully, I will get faster. I like to get results quickly and I can see, doing a bird is going to take lots of work and time, but I am enjoying it. Suppose that is the point anyway. Love this technique. I hope I will eventually get mine to look like the authors. Absolutely beautiful work in this book. May 20, 2016. Sketched, (juvenile marsh wren) did color pencil and then made a guide for needle painting. Need to practice, but I think I learned a bit through this project. 3/5/2017. Completed my second bird pillow and starting a third.