Long stitch

Learn how to fill the parts of embroidery design with texture and color with these six embroidery stitches: Seed stitch, French knots, Long and short stitch,...

As you probably know, I am very fond of the embroidery technique called long and short stitching, and I hope more and more people fall in love with it and see that it is actually not that scary and not that hard. Well, it is not that easy either and it requires some time and patience to get friendly with it. But it is totally worth it, isn't it? By today I actually have plenty of material on this blog about long and short stitch as well as needle painting. So I decided to gather it all up in…

Long and Short embroidery stitch, also called needle painting or thread painting, is a fill type of stitch that produces … Read More

Long and short stitch is the key stitch used in the silk shading technique. While simple in concept, it's taken practice to get to grips with it.

Hello everyone We have had a lot of holidays over and between the Easter period in South Africa which has given me time to do some “guilty pleasure stitching” – guilty because this stitching is not…

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Get these 6 quick and easy Bargello long stitch needlepoint patterns that can be finished in as little as a couple of hours or over a weekend.