A cutwork embroidery involves making embroidery stitches over design outlines and after the embroidery is done, parts of the foundation fabric are cut away, leaving the embroidery stitches intact, resulting in projecting outlines of the design. It is usually done by hand using various hand embroidery stitches but mainly with buttonhole stitches.
Needlepoint embroidery is not for the fainthearted. It takes a lot of dedication and patience to complete a small area in needlepoint embroidery but once completed, no other embroidery looks as beautiful. Needlepoint is a kind of embroidery in which the whole foundation fabric is covered with embroidery stitches. usha sewing machine Silk threads, wool yarn or embroidery
There are countless stitches and their variations in needle point embroidery. If you go through a needle point book with all the different variety of stitches, you may decide to quit the embroidery altogether and go do something else- in confusion as to which to choose. They are all beautiful and incomparable. But some stitches truly elevate the beauty of a needlepoint artwork, and at the same time are very easy to make.
This is the simplest of all needle point stitches and the most difficult. Simple, because it is very easy to make a single stitch but difficult, because if you make small tent stitches on your canvas, the time taken to complete a work is so much more than when covered with large covering stitches.
The tent stitch is a small diagonal stitch worked in a row. The stitch is worked from left to right. You can create great shading effect using this stitch – and because of this versatility, this is the most commonly used stitch in needle point embroidery.
You can work this over a straight stitch for a raised effect. It can also be done diagonally across the fabric.
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