Needle Painting Embroidery - Fresh Ideas for Beginners

Needle Painting Embroidery: Fresh Ideas for Beginners

This combines is book form fifteen embroidery projects from the numerous kits that Trish Burr has been providing over the years. It includes a variety of traditional flowers and two small colourful and delightful South African birds, the little bee-eater and teh racquet-tailed roller.

The embroideries are divided into 3 levels, from complete beginner through to more intermediate embroiderers, and will also be helpful to those with some experience who are looking for smaller designs to use for gifts. Each level is carefully designed to take you onto the next stage of needle painting and includes all aspects of the technique, plus an introduction to long and short stitch and its' variations - basic, curved, different shapes and feathers.

As a self-taught embroiderer Trish understands the need for clarity and has spent many hours exploring the simplest way to present project instructions so that they are easy to follow -  comprehensive listings, numerous step-by-step photographs, clear illustrations and row-by-row instructions. All designs are presented here use readily available DMC or Anchor Stranded Cottons.