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Anemone needlepoint pillow kit by Jennifer Pudney.

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Needlepoint Stitch Technique Guide

This page is all about needlepoint stitch 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 needlepoint stitch technique you are looking for. Or click the link for basic needlepoint stitches.

Create Even Needlepoint Stitch Tension

If you want your stitches to sit nice and evenly on the canvas, then some needlepoint stitch techniques that ensure you achieve even stitch tension are in order. Find out about creating even needlepoint stitch tension.

How To Shade Needlepoint

Learn two easy methods for how to shade needlepoint. Whenever a canvas has areas of graduated color you will need to know how to stitch it without forming a hard line. Learn how to shade needlepoint here.

Needlepoint Couching

Learn about needlepoint couching - a useful and easy technique for laying thread on top of the canvas too define features.

Continuous Motion Needlepoint Stitch

This is a great needlepoint stitch technique to make your canvas stitch up 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 do not have to move your hand from the front to the back of the canvas. The needle is woven in and out on the top of the canvas. But, ladies and gentlemen, you cannot use a frame with this needlepoint stitch technique. 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 Stitch 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 stitch technique for using 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.

Stitch A Needlepoint Curve

Learn some easy ways to stitch a needlepoint curve so it ends up like a curved line and not a jagged line.

How To Stitch A Penelope Needlepoint Canvas

how to stitch penelope needlepoint canvas

You can use a basic needlepoint stitch on a penelope canvas, but as this is a double weave canvas, there are some tricks to it. Click the link for more information on how to stitch a penelope needlepoint canvas.

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.

Questions? Contact Us about any needlepoint stitch, or anything else, of course. We love to hear from you. Contact us.