Needle Painting Embroidery: Fresh Ideas for Beginners

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

Very useful for beginners

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

Livro maravilhoso

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.

Arrived in good order and is as described

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.