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A Needlepoint Stitch Technique Guide

There are many different ways to form a basic needlepoint stitch. Directions are here. This page is all about needlepoint techniques you can use to make your stitching life easier, or to enhance a design by adding a new dimension to it.

Click on the links to take you through to the technique you are looking for.

Continuous Motion Stitch

This is a great needlepoint technique to make your stitching go faster. It is the
"6 Million Dollar Man" of needlepoint stitches (we might be dating ourselves here!). If you use a continuous motion stitch to stitch your canvas you are not having to move your hand from front to back of the canvas. The needle is woven in and out on the top of the canvas. But, ladies and gentlemen, this does mean not using a frame. If you are happy to substitute speed for tautness (and I gave up being "taut" in my thirties), then this one is for you. Click here for directions for a continuous motion needlepoint stitch.

Needlepoint Stitching With Color Changes

If you are stitching a canvas that has a regular repeating pattern it can become frustrating tying off the yarns all the time to start a new color. Click here to learn a needlepoint technique for stitching with multiple colors in a repeating pattern. Your stitching will go faster and look neat and tidy on the back of the canvas. Multi-color technique.

Needlepoint Backstitch

Needlepoint backstitch is a very useful surface embroidery stitch to learn. It allows you to outline your needlepoint design and provides more definition where it is needed. We use it a lot to outline design features that we want to enhance and that otherwise might blend into the background. It's a surface embroidery stitch you do after you have completed the entire needlepoint design. Click here for information about this easy stitch.

How To Needlepoint Left Handed

Click through to learn two ways to needlepoint left handed. We have kept the instructions and the needlepoint techniques as low fuss as possible. Click here

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