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…

Key tips for turning your long and short stitch into gorgeous thread paintings! Hand embroidery tutorial.

The long and short stitch is a series of straight stitches that interlock to fill in a larger shape. This embroidery fill stitch allows for a smooth transition of colors, giving the piece a blended effect. Whereas the satin stitch does a good job filling in small areas, the long and short stitch works great to fill in larger areas.

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A beginner look at thread painting using long and short stitch. Remember that the first stitch is the hardest!

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Learn how to embroider a long and short stitch. This is commonly used in silk shading and thread painting and blends colors together nicely..

Today I offer you a new case study! So if you ever wondered about the correlation between the number of layers (rows) on long and short stitching and the quality of blending, today's post might answer some of your questions, The task when stitching these 3 shapes was to make a transition from yellow to blue. The first example has only 2 colors: yellow and blue. The second example has 3 colors: yellow → green → blue And the third example has 7 colors: yellow → 2 mid shades of yellow-green →…

This topic is something I've wanted to cover for a while now. It is especially beneficial for beginner embroiderers who are currently exploring long and short stitching and needlepainting. So, today's topic is actually not just “using long and short stitch as a filler”. I mean, we all know that it can be used as one, right? And we all know the main “how's” of using it as a filler: outline the shape and fill with long and short stitches. In fact, the main point that I wanted to speak about…

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