Good morning, all! Today, because it’s Saturday, because it’s a gorgeous day out, because I’m behind the 8-ball as usual (hence, the post is late!), and because I think you all deserve a little needlepainting in your Needlework Lives – I’m giving away a Trish Burr Needlepainting Embroidery Kit!!!
The kit is compliments of Trish Burr (thank you, Trish!), and it’s suitable for beginner to intermediate levels.
This is Trish Burr’s Daisy Spray with Rosebuds (and a blue ribbon) kit. It’s a great way to introduce yourself to needlepainting, which is shaded embroidery using primarily long and short stitch, but also including other stitches for texture and interest. So if you’ve wanted to learn needlepainting techniques, here’s a great way to get started.
If you’re already proficient at needlepainting, or if it’s a technique that hasn’t grabbed you yet, the kit would make a great gift for a stitcher in your life!
The kit comes with everything you need to complete the project – fabric with the design pre-printed, step-by-step instructions, and all the necessary threads. The threads are organized on thread drops, so you can connect these to a ring and keep them all together at your fingertips.
If you’d like to win the give-away, here’s what you have to do:
1. Leave a comment below this post (not via e-mail, not on any other post on the website), answering the following question:
What embroidery technique do you want to try, that you haven’t already tried? or, What technique do you want to improve in, that you have tried and liked?
2. Make sure you leave an identifiable name on your comment!
3. Leave the comment before 5:00 am CST, Wednesday, December 1st. I’ll draw for a winner on Wednesday morning and post the winner that day.
4. Check back to see if you won! The winner will need to contact me with a mailing address.
Best of luck!!!
The Fine Print: The give-away is open to anyone, anywhere. If mailed overseas, the receiver is responsible for any customs fees, taxes, etc. Should the item go astray in the post, please understand that I will not be able to send a replacement. (In the past five years, only two packages mailed overseas – to my knowledge – have gone astray. I don’t always hear back from the winners after the items are mailed, but I do know that one book sent to Australia never made it, and one package sent to Hungary never made it.) But I will do my best, from my end, to make sure that all is right in the mailing of the package.
I have not yet tried stitch painting, but I am ready to try it. Actually I am usually ready to try just about anything.
How wonderful! This is one of the embroidery techniques I have been wanting to learn!
What technique do you want to improve in, that you have tried and liked? I want to improve on the dimensionality of my stitching. I have mental ideas for designs I’d like to do, but my ability to bring them to fruition is symied because of my skill level. So all techniques that will help bring dimension are of interest to me.
I have not tried thread painting. The local EGA is willing to take a beginner and help me in February. I loved your needle minder and will make some for gifts.
Would love to try cutwork. It is so precise. The needlepainting kit is beautiful. I haven’t done any of that kind of work. Good luck to me!
Oh I have been admiring her work for some time at her blog and would LOVE it! Please pick me!
I would love to win this! I’m definitely a beginner and it sounds like this would be a good project to practice the Short & Long stitch, which is one I’ve been wanting to learn. I really enjoy reading this blog. Thank you!
I have never tried Needlepainting so I will be a real beginner. I think this kit is lovely and really special as a beginner’s kit. What a generous offer this designer is making and what a wonderful opportunity to try something new.
Thank you.Dee.
Easy answer: long and short stitch! I’ve never tried shading embroidery.
I’m not particularly proficient at anything, but would definitely love to increase my skill, such as it is, in needlepainting. I especially love needlepainted flowers, but would also love to try the birds that Trish designs. Did you see her blog on screen printing? Here’s the link, it makes for pretty funny reading.
http://trishburr.wordpress.com/2010/11/09/screen-printing/
Mary, great news of yours.
My answer to your question is that I never triedout stumpwork. I want to learn it and know the technics.
I dontknow how i am going to learn it.
viji
Two techniques that I would love to become more proficient in are goldwork and temari. I practice the temari more because it’s more portable, and have noticed myself getting better. I still need, though, to stretch myself. One problem I have is that I live in South America at the moment and have no one nearby to give me feedback. My next post is Moldova, so it won’t be much better there.
Well, first of all, that is a beautiful piece of stitchery!
The one kind of needlework I’ve never done but would love to learn and do is Goldwork. I can’t exactly afford it right now, but it’s definitely on my list, and someday I will try it!
And needlepainting is the one I want to improve in. I took your Short and Long Stitch course, here on your blog, and I’ve done one stitchery using that technique. And one that is about half done, but that’s the one I want to improve in. The needlework pictures using needlepainting are so pretty, I want to be able to give them as gifts.
Thank you for offering this – it’s gorgeous!
Karen Gass
I have not tried needlepainting (it’s the “painting” part that intimidates me) .. but I have a book and have always wanted to try it. I am somewhat of an acedemic embroiderer (and gardener); if reading about something could be translated into “doing it” I would have fewer books and more finished projects. I am also fascinated by any whitework: I love how the stitches on the fabric are so beautiful to not need colour.
Thanks to Trish and you for the contest. If I win I promise to actually DO the kit
Cross my heart …
There is a Turkish technique for embroidering on leather I have always wanted to try, so far I have always chickened out. May be soon, cross your fingers.
Love it!!
Haven’t done any needlepainting yet, but would just love to try it.
I’d love to learn this needle-painting technique! I’m fairly new to embroidery, but have conquered many stitches so far. However, I still need to practice & master satin stitch.
Hi! I would love to win the Trish Burr thread painting kit. I have done a little bit of thread painting and certainly need to improve on it. Winning the kit would give me motivation to try again. Thanks, Donna D.
Blending and/or shading of colors in my needlepoint. Thanks
I love goldwork and whitework. I have never tried to do thread painting as I honestly never knew where to begin. My brother is a priest and I make vestments for him. I am a mixed media artist so learning to paint with thread would expand my repertoire of media. I see so many things on this site but am limited by my lack of knowledge of thread painting. Please help me expand my horizons. Adele
I would like to learn how to embroidery period. I have been “practicing” my stitches on flour sack towels. I did some embroidery as a child; some of the stitches are coming back to me. Mary, your videos are so helpful! I sit in front of my laptop and follow along. One might think I was crazy if they saw me starting and stopping the video to make sure that I am creating the stitch just like Mary does. Thank you for your dedication and love of embroidery.
Actually, needlepainting is a technique I’ve been planning on trying for a while now! I love the way needlepainting looks. My daughter is an oil painter, and I would love to be a needle painter!
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I want to learn to needlepaint. I’ve been embroidering for a number of years and am just finishing the 14th design on an embroidery floss embroidery called “A Colonial Herb Garden”. That will complete the entire embroidery and I’m ready to start a new one. I’ve been doing some research on how to needlepaint on the internet. Winning your kit would give me the opportunity to learn to needlepaint by actually using the techniques in the kit. I would love to win it!
I love needlework–it’s relaxing and so satisfying! I love threadpainting! Stumpwork is a technique that I’d love to try. Some of the results are just stunning!
I am using one of Trish Burr’s books to improve my long and short stitch, I would love to try this kit.
Thank you both for your generosity,
Camille
i would like to and love to learn needlepainting and this kit will be a great help.I know some basics of embroidery but will like to improve much more far in needle painting and ribbon embroidery and your videos have also were a great help.thanks and regards nilima.
Sure hope I win…it is beautiful !!!
Hi Mary, I’m recently retired, yea, and, also, new to your Daily Newsletter. I love it and I am happily viewing your videos and trying new stitches (to me). I have been stitching a long time and am happy to be embroidering again. I would love to win the beautiful Trish Burr Needlepainting Kit! It looks like a technique my Mother used to do and I would love to learn. Thanks again. I love the frog button!! Connie
I am a novice embroider, but I will admit black work fascinates me. Mastering that I think would be wonderful.
This is a beautiful kit I would love to work. My needle painting skills are a bit rusty and this will help me get them rejuvenated again.
May you all have a Blessed Christmas, Mary
I just would like to say, I came across Trish Burr’s website just recently and everything is really beautiful.
I have done some embroidery like smocking and embroidery patterns from the 1940′s. I have accomplished the french knots and outline stitches and have done some satin stitches also Now that I have come across Trish Burr’s Embroidery Kits, I feel it is time to take the next step up in needle painting.
I love your website. Thank you for the videos. I think the kit is absolutely beautiful and would love to have it. Blessings.
Charlotte
I would love to try this, it is beautiful. I have never tried Stumpwork. I would like to improve period.
Stumpwork Embroidery!! I love it but hesitate to try it for fear of failure!!! Silly I know, BUT……. I do admire the wonderful aspects of it and respect those who accomplish the beauty of it. Tutorial maybe??
I would love to use this kit to improve my surface stitching, i.e. long and short stitch. I have never felt proficient in the skill. As far as what type of stitching I would like to try, I think (and I used that term in the broadest sense) I would like to give gold work a try. You make it look soooo tempting.
Oh, Mary, how generous of you to offer this kit up for a drawing. Please enter my name. I have wanted to do needlepainting for some time now and this would be so wonderful to start with. You are one generous lady.
I would love to try needle painting, this is something that I’ve seen you do and it is just beautiful. I haven’t done any surface embroidery since my grandmother gave me a small project when I was a little girl. Mostly I do counted cross stitch and hardanger. I would really like to give this a try.
I have always wanted to try blackwork, but for some reason, I haven’t done it yet.
I have tried needlepainting, and really enjoy it. I definitely need to improve, though. This kit would give me the chance.
Thanks so much for the opportunity to win, Mary!
Shirley Crockett
I can’t do silk shading because it always turns into needlepainting. I would love to have a Trisha Burr kit with her instructions so that I might be able to make my needlepainting look a little more like silk shading. (I love Trisha’s work!)
I have not tried needlepainting and would love to add it to my crazy quilting. I believe that I have the hang of the long and short stitch so needlepainting would be next. I love your how-to videos, by the way.
Alice
The Loon
Mary, I have made a few unsuccessful attempts at needlepainting. I’m certain with more practice and a lot of patience I will get the hang of it eventually. To have a Trish Burr kit would give me the perfect incentive that I need. Her work is stunning as is yours.
Cheers,
Linda Adam
Ontario, Canada
Good Morning Mary,
It is so enjoyable to receive your wonderful newsletters every day. I do now miss a one.
Trish Burr’s Daisy Spray with Red Rosebuds is just what I need to try the long and short stitch technique so I can do the shaded embroidery. I need to improve in the Basic technique so as to show my Grand Daughter, who is 9 years old, how to embroidery.
Thank you for your beautiful embroidery.
Pat Hadder
I would love to try my hand at long and short stitch.
Since I consider myself a “generalist” when it comes to embroidery, I have tried many techniques, but although I have admired it greatly, I have never done Mountmellick embroidery. I’m hoping to do so soon.
But since I am a “generalist,” I also have lots of room for improvement in many techniques. Needlepainting can always improve with practice. I’ve done Tanya Berlin designs, and I have Trish’s books, but I’ve not stitched her designs yet. I need lots of help with silk ribbon work, and Brazilian embroidery. The list could go on and on…
I would love to learn needlepainting technique. I have seen many projects done and they are beautiful. I have just never tried it yet. I just found this site and love it, I have learned so much, besides some of just the basic stitches that Grandma taught me. Thank you for sharing so much, you helped me learn to do some of the work I have longed to do for years ,but didn’t know how.
Hi,Mary,
Thanks to you and Trish for yet another fabulous giveaway. I took a class in goldwork (also called zardosi in India) recently. I am currently using the locally available materials but I would like to use the different types of purl and try it. I have never tried stumpwork yet and that is something I want to do next but hesitate as all the materials are not easily available here.
I am just a beginner at needlepainting, but I find with most needlework, even an “easy” pattern can teach you something. I adore Trish’s work and would LOVE to try one of her kits!
Ooo, to fondle that pretty thread! Grin!
I have been following your newsletter with great interest and have learned so much. I think because of your clear directions I would like to attempt a beginner’s goldwork piece. I completed the long and short stitch seminar you posted last year, and am now ready to try a Trish Burr project. It is so exciting to be able to continue to learn….even into retirement years! Thank you for making advancement in embroidery as easy as accessing our computers!
Late? Hon, it’s ONLY 8am here in rainy California…!
I want to get GOOD at needlepainting. Mine is enough, as they say, to make a cat laugh–and my cats tend to take one look at MY stitchery and do one of three things: Attack it, fall over in what I can only assume is feline for “ROFL”, or get a glimpse and run for the hills!
I’d settle for being competent, really I would…
Making it to ‘competent AND without cat hair in the stitches’ would be asking more than the gods are likely to give… *grin*
Gotta love a bunch of hairballs!
PA
What embroidery technique would I like to try? I would like to try many different ones and I have tried many and enjoyed them all but the technique that I would really like to try is Whitework. The finished effect is so beautiful and delicate that it has won my heart.
There are so many techniques I’d love to learn–threadpainting is one, crewel work and ribbon embroidery are also on the list. The cost is stopping me, as well as time.
I want to learn needle painting because the name expressed exactly what I want to achieve with my stitching. I currently do Brazilian Dimensional Embroidery and have done crewel, cross stitch, some Hardanger and some pulled thread. Thus far, Brazilian is my favorit-actually my passion!
I love needlepainting, and have done some. I’m planning a post-Christmas project that will involve embroidering 36 of the flowers from my garden to be featured on a quilt. Probably over ambitious as usual. I’ve never done any gold work, so I really enjoy looking at what you’ve done. Maybe someday?
This finger painting technique I have never tried before, I would love to learn it. There are no real embroidery classes in my area and it is hard for me to travel where they are available. I so enjoy reading every day your posts and look forward to them every am.
Thank you for the wonderful info you provide all the time.
I’m making a New Year’s resolution to learn needlepainting, especially long and short! Thank you for such generosity.
I’m learning Brazilian Dimensional Embroidery and loving it. I love your newsletter. It is encouraging to me to see the stitches and techniques you talk about. Someday I would love to do a piece that combines both techniques. This kit is one more step toward that goal.
Hi Mary!
I would love to try this. I have several of her books (and books written by others) and have been trying to get my courage up to just do it. This will certainly be the push I need.
I also want to try Goldwork, but that is another story.
Thank you Trish and Mary for this fantastic chance!
Helen
I have been cross-stitching for over 10 years. I just took up Hardanger, Drawn Threads designs and speciality stitches. I am still a novice in needleworks but I enjoy learning new techniques. Please add my name to the draw.
Thank you,
Susan
My first stitching was crewel embroidery. I have tried many other forms of stitching, and love needlepoint in all its forms, but the look and feel of surface embroidery is calling to me still. I recently purchased Trish’s DVD about Long and Short Stitching, and I am heading in that direction again. It’s like coming home!
The kit looks great. Very pretty. Well, needle painting would be something I haven’t tried that I would like to. And I would like to improve my embroidery skills.
Thanks
Good morning,
Thank you for offering such a generous giveaway.
I would love to learn some new techniques to create texture in my work. I also would definitely like to improve my long and short stitch technique.
Helen in SW FL
OH MY, when I saw your give-away, I was so excited…I am learning needle painting,and need all the help I can get. I love this art and Trish Burr is excellent.
Thank you so much for offering this gift.
Good luck to everyone, specially ME.
France from Québec
Thread painting is a technique that about a year ago, I began experimenting with. I find so much satisfaction from every step. Yet, it is something that I definetely need improvement upon. Thank you for holding this give away and allowing me to have a chance at winning the beautiful prize.
Mary, What a great early Christmas present you have decided to give someone! I have tried “needle painting” when you taught the online class and would like to improve my technique. Hope to win this kit because it looks like a good one!
Sheila Keeling in CA
I would like to try counted cross-stitch. I’ve done a few already printed pillowcases and have a cloth and pattern for the counted cross-stitch, but have yet to try it. I would also like to try needlepainting as I’ve never heard of it before.
I love your website by the way, it has helped me alot!
Sarah
Nedle painting is something I would love to try and am so envious of some of the needle painted work I have been. Looks easy until I sit down and am not where to go from there!
Pam L
I really want to try needlepainting embroidery more. I have made a small piece where I used the techniques on children’s faces and hands(pinks, peach, and rose)–ready for a bigger challenge now! Enjoy your blog!
Hmmm, what do I want to try or improve? I’ve never done cut-work, by hand that would be nice. And improve? Well coincidentally thread painting is one. I still don’t feel like the thread painting I have tried comes out fluid enough to please me. Another is satin stitch. It always needs improvement. Thank you for offering this giveaway.
After working all of your long and short stitch sampler, I am still hopelessly inadequate with this stitching technique. Sure, my mother said she liked it, but it’s obvious that the lightbulb over my head is still dim. Nevertheless, I am game to try again.
I’d love to learn Hardanger — but all the tiny stiches and cutting are intimidating. Maybe once I get a 4x magnifier I can tackle it.
I have tried most embroidery techniques, but silk shading or needle painting is the one I find the most daunting. I know how to do long and short stitch and yet I still haven’t got to grips with it. I long to master this technique but to date it has me beat!
This is on my to do list before I die! What a nice gift to get me started.
Linda M in NM
I would love to win this beautiful kit. I’ve been wishing to try needle painting, but have been reluctant to try since it seems so complicated. A kit would be wonderful, to have instructions for guidance. The kit itself is just lovely
I’d like to try more of the fancy stitches that require multiple steps, like Oyster stitch and braided stitches.
I love Trish Burr’s kits. I’d love to improve my needlepainting and to try stumpwork.
Thank you for this wonderful opportunity
There are still many techniques I have not tried but I am mostly interested in improving the Needle Painting technique as it is absolutely gorgeous and so far I have not done much in this technique and I still have lots to learn.
Thanks!
Pierrette =^..^=
What embroidery technique do I want to try or improve in? There are so many…the great pleasure of embroidery is the diversity of choices; there is something for everyone.
I just completed a course in Italian hemstitching and that is definitely an area for improvement and more learning. A house full of Italian linens would be wonderful…an ambitious goal, but there would be no end of challenges.
I would love to win one of Trish’s kits. They are lovely! Needlepainting is just the thing that I haven’t tried yet and would love to learn.
i have tried stumpwork lately and really love it!! i need to practice a bit more but ill get there…eventually:)
caro (québec)
I would like to improve my satin stitch, especially in monograms.
What a great giveaway.
I have never really enjoyed crewel, preferring to work on a grid – I have a passion for symmetry! However, this really inspires me to try again. It is SO delicate. Lesley-Anne
I would like to improve my satin stitch
I would love to try thread painting. Since I am not good with a brush. I am self taught so probably need improvement on all my stitches. I have a hard time getting the feather type stitches even.
The embroidery style i would like to learn most is thread painting, and ribbon
I would love to learn thread painting. I had signed up for a class at BATB, but decided to change it when I learned my daughter wanted me to make her wedding dress and I needed to learn beading. That is the one class I regret I did not have a chance to include. Of course there is really not a type of needle work I would not like to try.
I became a grandmother for the very first time last week to a precious baby girl. My embroidery techniqes are limited but I really need to be able to do the padded satin stitch as my daughter has selected a beautiful Christening gown with lots of padded satin stitch. I see alot of hand embroidery and heirloom sewing in my future. I certainly need all of the help that I can get!!
I’d never successfully done satin stitch until i discovered Mary’s site. Now my embroidery has really taken off! I’d love to learn more with this kit. Thanks for such a great web site.
Ohh! I have so much on my todo pile, I don’t if I could add more to it but a Trish Burr give away! Who could resist entering the draw?
Ok, long and short stitch or thread painting has long been high on my list of techniques to try. I’ve dabbled in it but never got to grips with it, and guess what? It is the next phase for me in Japanese Embroidery, I’ll be starting it in the Spring.
Good luck, everyone and thank you, Trish and Mary for another generous give-away.
Actually, I haven’t tried needlepainting yet. I have been drooling over the Trish Burr kits, but I haven’t picked one out yet!
That is gorgeous!
I have been trying my hand recently at Silk Ribbon embroidery. I SO need to practice more. I took a class on Joggles. Class mates helped to encourage Sharon Boggle of Pintange fame to start a group on Stitching fingers. So that I and others just starting out could ask questions of the more experienced. I have been searching around the net and seem to be drawn to embellished prints. The only thing that has stopped me from ordering everything on Di van Nieker breath taking site is cost and my inexperience. Don’t want to get overwhelmed and then discouraged. Right now I am makeing myself do baby steps lol. I picked up some of the wonderful DMC Flouche at a local shop (Sad to say what they have now is it. They will not get it any more.) And have been practicing my satin stitch. The flouch makes it so easy! It is astounding how much I have learned online from you and others on the web. Ever so much more than classes or books! Thank you for helping novices like me.
Other than the fact that perhaps Tish should win the kit by Trish !!!!!!, I am really rusty in my needlework skills, and would love to brush up with this wonderful kit! I have ordered one of the stitch books that you suggested so, at 73 years old, I am ready to get back into the needlework game. Thanks for putting my name into the hat!
I have just brought Trish Burr’s book and would love to try needlepainting…so if I won the kit that would be absolutely perfect:-)
Take care,
Alison Collins
Dear Marymentor:
My “filling in of large spaces” techniques are atrocious ! I really need to work on that. Your recently suggested tool (can’t remember the name ?) to help flatten out the stitches will help when next I shop at JoAnn Fabric. Meanwhile, I’m trying to improve my long-short stitches while my filled in spaces are continuing to look L U M P Y !!
And there’s nothing subtle about my shading when I gradually go from one color to another in long/short.
Judy in Pittsburgh
I would like to try ribbon embroidery.
jane1 at cp-tel dot net
I’d like to try working with gold threads. Thx.
Hi Mary, I recently discovrered your site and look forward to it every day. I joined the EGA just a few years ago and am beginning to do crewel work due to the classes I have taken in the organization. I often struggle with my long and short stitch, so keep trying new things to get the technique perfected. I understand the concept, but don’t always feel it is the best I could do…. I think it is one of those practice makes perfect things! Thank you for giving me some daily inspiration to sit down and stitch. My only frustration is that some days are too long and there is no stitching time left!
Hello,
I know how to improvise and call it needle painting. I know less than nothing about shading.
I am a painter and long time textile designer
before computers stole the field from us
hand painters.
I have embroidered , mostly improvising basic stitches, sometimes combining it with inserts of acrilic painting.
This sounds so delicious. Thanks for considering a senior artist in New York City.
Marcia Bromberg
Well…as a matter of fact I would love to try needlepainting. I might not do it on my own for a while yet, but with a kit it would be so easy to get going.
All the best to you and thanks for all you share, Mary.
I love counted work:cross stitch, pulled thread, hardanger, darning etc. What I need to explore is the creativeness of designing my own projects using any technique.
Needlepainting has become one of my favourite forms of embroidery. I have followed various teachers with regard to this form of embroidery, but my favourite teacher and designer has to be Trish Burr. Her instructions are easy to follow, and her kits are very professional. I am proud to say she lives in South Africa, and I am a big fan of hers. I have all her books, and am looking forward to her two new books next year. I have given her kits and DVD to friends as gifts, and I know they have been appreciated.
I would like to try goldwork. Seeing the gorgeous ribbon you pictured on Wednesday inspires me even more to try that beautiful technique!
I would like to learn thread painting. I have worked my long and short stitch in crewel work; some embroidery. I have as yet to try the same process with thread painting.I would like to master thread painting because it shows a more detailed and refined embroidery piece than crewel work.
Mary, I would dearly love to win Trish Burr’s Needle Painting & Embroidery kit. It combines the two areas I am most interest in at present, embroidery and needle painting. I need to improve my embroidery and I would love to learn needle painting. Her design reminds me of an oriental style of embroidery I enjoy most. They have seem to have a unique ability to make their embroidery look like paintings. Hope I am successful this time. Thank you
Pauline
This is one form of needlework, I have always wanted to try. I would love to win this kit. What a wonderful way to learn needlepainting with all the neccesary items included.
Hi Mary!!
Read your site religiously and have been learning about embroidery not only from your site but also from the links you provide in your articles (I’ve bookmarked most of them). That being said, I’m a rank beginner that has not stitched a stitch in my life (accept for sewing lost/broken buttons on my shirts)! The techniques I’m interested in are gold work, needle painting, and Japanese embroidery albeit the more contemporary designs (liked your black work fish!!) but anything to help get me started would be appreciated. I’ve slowly accumulated books (including a number of Trish’s) and equipment and supplies using recommendations gleaned from your site and the links you provide. Now I just need to start accumulating more time and dive in head first – retirement is 2 years away
!! Please keep up the good work Mary!!
Ooops!! I have been keeping an eye out for this post and I was so happy to finally see you offer this that in my enthusiasm I forgot to read the rest of your post and answer the questions!
I hope a double post is not breaking any rules.
I’d love to learn other kinds of embroidery as well such as schwalm and hardangar and even goldwork.
I would just love to learn needle painting! Ever since I read about this technique I have been fascinated by it and I know this is something I have got to learn and really hope to get into this someday – maybe soon.
I’m enjoying finally having the time to back into some crewel embroidery again after a long spell due to other responsibilities and priorities that have taken up a lot of time. I am also now enjoying and learning some Brazilian embroidery.
This is exactly the stitching that I would like to learn! I bought a kit a few years ago, and have no idea how to do these stitches, so it has just been sitting in my stash! I thoughtnit was a cross stitch kit! LOL! Thanks for the wonderful contest!
Melissa
Hi, Mary! Actually, I’ve always wanted to try needlepainting. In pictures I’ve seen, it always seems to turn out soooo beautifully. It would be wonderful to win this kit! Thank you for the chance.
Mary I love reading your blogs. I am learning to embroidery again. I remember doing this as a young girl, but that’s been nearly 40 years ago, so I am starting all over. You could pretty much say I want to learn everything. I love the ribbon embroidery, but am taking it one step at a time. Thank you for your time and passion with this wonderful art.
Hi, Mary–enter me, please!
Embroidery technique I’d like to try: stumpwork. I bought a stumpwork book a few months ago but haven’t dug in yet. I’m hoping to try it out after the holiday season is over.
Thanks for offering the kit giveaway.
I have done basic embroidery, but have never tried needlepainting. Winning this kit would give me the nudge I need to try it.
I would love to learn thread painting! Secondly I’d love to learn how to do stump-work. I absolutely love your website and read it every day. You’re making me a confident beginner.
Claudia
I am fairly new to embroidery and probably spend more time drooling over the beautiful work that these wonderful and talented ladies do when I could be practicing my stitches!
I am especially drawn to the way they shade little “critters” and flowers, etc……just recently found out it is called “long and short stitch”……it is simply beautiful!!! I also like the way they do things with a “bullion stitch” ……..it looks difficult but I am sure it is rather easy…..I love stitching because it is so relaxing!
Actually, there is one technique I’d like to learn and one I’d like to become proficient in. I would LOVE to learn silk shading, and I would LOVE to become proficient in padded satin stitch. I have taken some preliminary whitework instruction at the Royal School of Needlework when we visited England about 10 years ago. These stitches are closely related, so I think learning one would improve my technique with the other.
Happy Thanksgiving to all, and especially to Mary! The embroidery technique I’ve always wanted to try is … no surprise … Needlepainting. This Trish Burr kit is so pretty, and I have a pattern saved on my computer for a gorgeous nosegay of violets I’ve been just dying to try, but was afraid to tackle. This kit might teach me the skills to try the violets too. Thank you, Mary, for the kit offer, and for all the wonderful posts … you brighten all our days with these posts!
Cathy Dassler in PA
Thread painting is a type of needlework that I’ve never tried because it seems very
intimidating when done properly. Perhaps
now is the time to try it if I win your contest.
Pat S.
Honestly, I am a beginner! I’d really like to try the coral stitch. I’m quite partial to dots…so I like the little knots. I have done very few stitches so far, so I am interested in ALL stitches. I’m preparing now to start a sampler to work and will try to make my way through all the videos. Then I have that great DK Stitch book that Mary featured not long ago. Also, I live in a fairly rural area and it is hard to find any nice stitching kits anywhere, so this give-a-way is quite exciting to me! Thanks Mary!!
I would like to learn Crewel. I would love to do the rooster on your website.
I so enjoy your postings, and I wonder how your class in the school is progressing. What a wonderful opportunity for those students!
As for techniques, I would like to know more and be more proficient with the long and short stitch. I know how to proceed, but to make it look wonderful is my goal – the most basic of surface embroidery accomplishments.
Anne Tuley
Thank you, Mary! A lovely giveaway and I would love to win it to work on perfecting my technique in soft shading/ needlepainting.
Softshading is the technique that presents me with the most challenges – I have yet to master it and am determined to make some progress on it this year. Other than that, I’m intrigued with Mountmellick embroidery and have a project with all the materials from Yvette Stanton waiting to be started sometime this year.
I would like to learn the long and short stitch that is used in Trish’s style of embroidery. I have tried it but not with the results that I would like.
Claudia Butler
Seattle WA
Thank you for offering this kit.
Needlepainting is THE technique I want to learn and master this year. It is soooooooooo beautiful.
I want to learn everything! I want my needle to dance, paint, create and evoke an emotional high. The touch of fabric, fine, coarse, soft or hard coupled with the joy of different threads makes my heart sing. Hardanger, satin stitch, smoking, needlepoint, goldwork – I want to live to be 120 so that I can experience all the joys of handwork!
Hi Mary-Because I’m very interested in historical clothes, sewing them professionally. There is a great field for an embroiderer- (at the moment for instance I’m working on a 1540 Italian renaissance gown with silver embroidered borders all araund the “gonna” (a mantle of black velvet). I haven’t yet tried goldwork, and I would very much like to learn this embroidery-technique.(Many garments of the 18.th century are often embellished with goldwork)
cheers
martina
I’m a beginner so there is alot I would like to learn. I have done some small projects long ago.
Thank you Mary for this wonderful opportunity. I would love to learn needlepainting- it is so beautiful! I have never attempted it, but this lovely kit would be a great way to start!
Happy Holidays!
Peg in NJ
I have been doing embroidery on and off for many years. I was a teacher for over 20 years and found that handwork would make meetings go so much faster. I have been retired for more than 10 years and finally finished most of the projects to give as presents this Christmas. This is a relief, but now I have nothing to work on and needlepainting would be a new embroidery technique that I have not tried. I no longer have the meeting but would be able to learn and work in the quiet of my own home…what fun.
I’ve never tried Brazilian embroidery, although I’ve admired it for a long time. I like the colors, the shiny thread, and the beautiful things that can be made.
Hi Mary, I have not tried Hardanger but would love too.
At the moment I am stitching a Christmas runner with a friend, on it we are doing some thread painting, I haven’t done much of it before but I am really enjoying it.
I have not do needlepainting in a very long time and would like to refresh and improve my skills. I think this kit would be very helpful.
I would love to have Trish Burr’s beautiful kit. I would like to learn how to do thread painting better and this kit would be perfect. I do many types of needlework but this is the latest that I am working on. I have done one small flower but this kit would give me alot more experience and I would love the challenge of this thread painting kit.
I would like to learn more about satin stitch and long and short stitches. I am a beginner in embrodiery and I love learning about new ways and ideas.
My goal is to learn needlepainting well enough to someday create the beloved face of my beautiful Shetland Sheepdog, Bridie. He is a sable colored Sheltie and has The Most Beautiful Face and warm brown eyes. I’d love to capture his loving gaze in needlepaint. I often look at him, and “see” the threads that make up his lovely coat. I purchased one of Helen M. Steven’s books with needlepainted animals to teach myself, but am a bit intimidated with learning from scratch! Perhaps beginning with a small flower is a more manageable start.
I would like to better my long & short stitches – I’ve done some very small ones which turned out nice. Like all embroidery (actually everything in life) I believe to practise, practise and some more practise.
I am experienced in counted thread work but I am working on improving my surface embroidery. I plan to move on from stitching with graphs to freehand embroidery. What little I have done so far is making thirsty for more. Where my needle goes I must follow!
Dawn C.
I would like to better my long & short stitches – I’ve done some very small ones which turned out nice. Like all embroidery (actually everything in life) I believe to practise, practise and some more practise.
I would love to learn mountmellik embroidery sincerely ,Helena.
I am involved with making priestly vestments and would really like learn better the technique of needlepainting as there are a lot of beautiful flowers I can embroider along with the gold metal thread embroidery.
I am currently involved with the making of priestly vestments. I would really like to improve my technique of needlepainting. There are alot of beautiful flowers/leaves I can embroider along with the gold metal thread embroidery which I am doing at present.
I would love to improve my satin stitch skills because I love hand monogrammed items. Thanks so much!
Ooh! I would love to try needle painting! I’ve mostly done counted stitches, but I’ve always liked Trish’s kits, this would be a great way to get started.
I have always wanted to try Hardanger but can’t somehow drum up the connfidence to do it because it involves cutting the fabric.
Dear Mary,
I am a new to needlework stitchery enthusiast. After raising our family’s five kids, I am determined to move beyond the mandatory knee patch, and button hole stitch. You can hardly believe just how happy I’ve been to find your website and all the shared knowledge that I am able to find with you. I have twelve inches of fresh snow outside my mountain home, and the thought of sitting and stitching with new embroidery techniques sounds wonderful to me. Thank you for the chance to enter your giveaway.
I have tried Brazilian Demensional embroidery twice and liked it very much. However, another type of embroidery always catches my eye and thoughts and I have always moved on to something else, meanwhile collecting patterns and those beautiful threads for future Brazilian projects.
Marti from Mohnton, PA
I am just delving into the world of surface embroidery and am especially intrigued by needlepainting. So far I’ve only completed one very small, sample pansy pattern.
Thanks for the chance to win this beautiful kit.
Hi – I’m in on this one!
) so I’d really like to improve on that.
As you know, I’ve just started needlepainting (an it’s partly your fault
Trish’s kits seems so alive, and it would be so nice to be able to do something aspiering to that level.
Here’s my efforts so far – unfortunately no new pictures yet.
http://smgj.wordpress.com/2010/10/01/i-serien-smgj-gjr-ting-hun-ikke-kan-schattersm/
Shadow work!! I have tried this technique and like it very much. However, I would like to improve and do some more complicated designs. How do you do an odd shape?
Needle painting is something I have never done and would like to really give it a go. I love fabrics and threads; but I am intimidated by my inexperience. Seems like everyone into this art accomplishes so much. They give these treasures away to friends. I would love to have that much confidence to feel free to give my work away. But, like most I guess, I have to complete one of these projects to give it away. I would also love to hang my love for needle work on my walls; not doing that as yet as well. Guess I need therapy more than a kit. But I would love to have the kit and instructions at my fingertips…
Dear Mary,
Besides embroidery, one of my other interests is botanical watercolor. I bought Trish’s Long-Short book to learn the technique, that to me is just like botanical watercoloring. I haven’t gotten around to selecting a project yet. Flowers are my first love for a subject but I also enjoy birds. I have been following Trish’s Blog and her progress on her new projects with great interest. Thanks for offering us a chance to win such a valuable and beautiful kit.
Hi Mary,
I have just finished a wool blanket with wool needle painting. I have wanted to try a Trish Burr project, however, I have been quite daunted by it, as wool seems to be quite forgiving, whereas her projects seem to be quite difficult in comparison.
Also, thank you so much for your daily blog … I love it!
Cheers, Gerda
Hi Mary
Needlepainting is DEFINITELY a technique which I love and admire and would love to improve on! There are some experts out there who do wonders with their needle and thread – veritable masterpieces. I´ve tried it (I´d upload my attempt if you had a facility for it) but obviously the result is very amateurish. Maybe a Trish Burr kit will help me improve!
I want to learn how to stitch with gold/silver metals and I want to learn Japanese silk embroidery. They are both on my “one day” list, but I have an embarrassingly large stash of projects already lined up. I do love thread painting, and this is a particulary nice design. Janet.
Wow, I didn’t know they had kits for needlepainting. I thought it had to be done by machine. You have inspired me try something new. Even if I don’t win, I know I will be buying a kit in the future
Dear Mary,
Thats a very nice giveaway! Thanks a ton for the same. I have not tried gold work embroidery and I am looking forward to trying it though I’m a little apprehensive about it. I have done needle painting before but have not mastered it yet!So, if I happen to win the kit, it would be a great learning for me.
Hi,
The embroidery technique that i have not tried yet is the Brazilian embroidery.
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It sounds easy when i read about it, but when i think of really doing a project, i end up saying not now, maybe later.
For now it comes under my one of these days i will do project list. eventually i will.. hoping it would be soon
Needlepainting happens to be the technique I would like to learn. I have only tried it once with wool for crewel work but would love to try it with silk or cotton to get that lovely shaded look.
I also haven’t tried cut work which I think looks lovely and feminine.
Thankyou for the offer Mary
Lynette
I really love your website. As a relatively new CQER and embroidery lover, I’m in the early stages of exploring stitches and designs. Without exception, your website has provided me with hours of instructional help, design inspiration, and just general good stuff to read!
Thank you.
Truthfully, my embroidery skills aren’t very good (although I would say I am a very skilled cross stitcher). I would like to improve in all areas, but I would especially like to try needle painting and maybe do a spot sampler.
Thank you for hosting this great giveway!
Montmellick Embroidery is one that has always had a fascination for me. It is hard to pick one technique to get better at, as improvement in all of them is needed. This is a lovely giveaway, and actually,if there was nothing given away, your website is gift enough.
Blackwork – always admired it but can’t get to grips with it.
Needlepainting – love doing this but would love to improve the finer points.
The next-up technique on my things to try that I have never tried is Merezhka Poltavska.
At the top of my “want to improve” list is Goldwork.
I would love to try needlepainting – I haven’t tried it yet. Also on my list for some time in the future is bullion.
Hi Mary,
Personally, I would love to try needle painting, but it scares the heck out of me. When you know what you’re doing, the colors seem to transition SO seamlessly; however, where I DON’T KNOW what I’m doing, I’m afraid to start a project for fear I end up disappointed. I guess I need to practice, practice, practice. Thanks for the post!
I would love to do gold work I have tried to do a basic kit but I can not get a perfect look. Also I have wanted to try needle painting it would be greast if I win the prize as I would be able to try before I buy.
Regards
Beb
Hi Mary,
I would like to try so many techniques – where do I start? Thread painting would definately be one of them. I need more hours in the day!
Keep up the good work.
Trish Hughes, Whangarei, New Zealand
Hello Mary,
I’ve got the book, so I won’t play.
But to answer to your question, I would like to improve and try more creative and modern embroidery, a bit like the work of Jane Hall, and “just stitch” from Lesley Turpin Delport. Try textured thread, etc…
I would like to improve or master the long and short stitch. I have tried it but can’t quite seem to get it to look as it should. As for new stitches I would like to try any other than the usual you see in most embroideries. In fact after the holidays I plan on a “sampler” to try every stitch that I can find in my embroidery “how to” books.
Long and short stitch embroidery (Needlepainting) I have tried but with not a lot of success its something I would love to be able to do poperly. I love hand embroidery and do lots of silk ribbon embroidery with Crazy Patchwork this also entails other embroidery stitchers. So I would love to win Trish Burr’s stitch kit it would help me I’m sure in my quest to better Needlepainting and a better understanding of this lovely embroidery art
There are several techniques that I’d like to try, but haven’t yet. Needlepainting is one of them – so I would love to win this kit
Sue
I have been needle crafting for on and off for 40 years, but I have jumped back and forth between crewel, hand embroidery, crochet, needlepoint, and cross stitch and never really focused on anyone craft. Recently, I decided that my true love is with hand embroidery. When I was in my mid twenties, I dabbled in pulled thread because I was, and still am fascinated, with linen table cloths/napkins/guest hand towels, etc. with pulled edging adorned with beautiful hand stitching. Recently, I joined your website, enjoying learning and perfecting stitches from your videos, and would be so happy to perfect pulled thread techniques. My current project is hand embroidered cotton kitchen towels with herb themes for my sisters (I have five)for Christmas. My daughter is expecting my third grandchild and one of my strong desires is to gift her with a fine pulled thread, hand embroidery table cloth with matching napkins.
Hi Mary, Earlier this year I participated in a workshop run by the Treasurer of my Embroiderer’s guild. It was needlepainting. I signed up for this because needlepainting has always been one of those techniques I wanted to try, but did not have enough confidence to do on my own.
My little rose is almost finished and then I can make it up into ‘whatever’. I will post pictures when it’s done.
So I guess my comment would be, that I would like to win Trish Burr’s kit so that I can become more proficient at needlpainting, without have to sort out my own designs or colours – yet!!
Thank you Trish for making your kits available as a giveaway.
I would love to win this gorgeous little prize, It is always nice to try soemthing new. However, i know that I need to improve my cross stitch and back stitch sometimes it looks nice and sometime it looks a bit to rush. So, i need to practice patience!
I would love to learn to do the bullion knot,have tried it in the past,but did not come out nice. Thank you for all your help. : )
Mary I would love to learn the art of needlepainting and this kit looks like a great way to start. I saw a real expert at Musikfest in Bethlehem, PA and have been wanting to learn ever since. Please consider me for your contest. Thank you.
Rose Koslap
would like to try crewel.
would like to improve french knots.
Hi
I love your site, your work is always so beautiful. I have also used a few of your tutorials, very clear and extremely helpful.
I would like to learn any new stitches, I just stitch in my comfort zone . . . back, straight, split, stem, etc.
Thanks for the opportunity to learn some more new things.
Keep up the wonderful work.
Diana
sdsunshine@sio.midco.net
The embroidery techniques that I would most like to try are blackwork patterns with Holbein stitch, and the long and short stitch to do needle painting. So far, I have only done counted stitch projects such as cross-stitch and needlepoint, so this would be a great step towards learning other techniques.
Thanks for offering this give-away.
I have just done some crewel embroidery and was impressed with my long and short stitch, (even if I say so myself) and now I would like to have a go at Needlepainting. Thanks
Hi!
I truthfully need to learn the very basics. I remember watching my mom as a child, but was never taught. I think the starter kit would be a great place for me to start! Thanks!
I want to try gold work, but have not saved up to get a kit or supplies yet.
I’ve only dabbled with thread painting and would love to learn more and become more proficient. I’ve been wanting to try one of Trish Burr’s kits but hadn’t yet taken that leap. Thanks once again for such a lovely give-away, Mary!
I’ve never done needle painting unless you call long and short stitch needle painting (which I’ve tried) so I would love to win Trish’s Kit.
I’ve done alot of different things like silk ribbon embroidery on my crazy quilt squares.I
also do counted cross stitch and Brazilian Dimentional Embroidery. The latter is what I’d love to get better at.
I would love to try stumpwork. I visited Hardwick hall in england where there is a stumpwork box in a glass case from the 16th century,that was worked by a child! – very humbling. I would also like to learn needle painting and learn how to shade those colours.
Hmm, what technique? Let’s see, most techniques required for needlepainting are a good start…I’m a cross stitcher who loves learning about all the other fiber arts. I’m pretty good at backstitching, but I really would like to work on so many others…Oh, and I’m a flower freak too…I haven’t met a flower I didn’t like…so I would love to try this out…
TIA!
I found your website when looking for a French knots tutorial so I could improve my technique on those, and I’ve been lurking ever since. The lovely needlepainting looks like something I would really enjoy, so I will be looking for tips on that, now, with or without the lovely kit you showed in today’s post.
Dear Mary,
Your website was recommended to me by a friend in my embroidery group as I wanted to learn more stitches and no one else knew how to do them. Since then, you have turned me on to goldwork and thread painting. I tried a little thread painting last year for a Christmas gift. It wasn’t great but it was appreciated by the giftee. I have been trying to improve on my thread painting and would love to give this one a try. Maybe Trish Burr has some insights in her kit that would help me. The kit is beautiful and I would love to have it.
I read your blog everyday and you give me so much inspiration, thank you for that. Have a great holiday.
Kathleen
I would love to learn Cutwork, Pulled Thread,and
definitely Long and Short Stitch with mixed threads.
Thank you for this opportunity and thank you so much for all the wonderful information that you so generously share.
Dayan
Maureen
I do needlepoint, hardanger, pulled thread, hem stitching and almost any counted thread but have never had enough confidence to do embroidery or needlepainting. Please help
me learn this new to me technique.
Thanks for your help.
I’m new to all embroidery, so there are lots of stitches I would like to learn.
When first seeing Trish Burr’s website (because of NeedlenThread) I zeroed in on this particular design!
It’s for a beginner and I’ve never done needlepainting, and have put away my oils, and love learning.
When my daughter was little and got sick, I gave her a yellow rosebud and told her ‘love makes the hurt go away’ and she always felt better.
The daisy to me is from my fav poem ‘… if I had my life to live over, I’d pick more daisies …’
This is the needlepainting design that I would love to do.
I’d live to try threadpainting. I’ve bought books but never started.
I have tried the thread painting. Needless, to say, I haven’t produced a decent piece yet. I would like to learn to do the bullion flowers.
I just love needle painting, it is fabulous! I have done one picture using this techique. I love all forms of embroidey, but not to keen on one’s I have to count. Eg cross stitch, hardanger,etc.
I think crewel is proberly my favourite!
Pick-me..Pick-me..Pick-me.!!…:)
What a wonderful prize draw. Thanks for the opportunity to win it.
Years ago I did a flower bouquet in needlepainting but nothing recently. This delightful kit would be super to stitch up.
Regards Phillipa
Although I have done some needlepainting or thread painting, I confess to being no great shakes at it. So of course winning this kit would be a wonderful opportunity to improve. I have tried – once or twice – Russian punch needle embroidery with no success at all. Clearly I need help with this too.
i want to try crewel embroidery, especially jacobean styles. i got old wool thread . just now need to make myself to find an book and material to do it. pick me please.
oh well i tried again.
Thanks for the fun giveaway!
I would like to improve my satin stitch. I’ve enjoyed your instruction on the integration of padding with satin stitch and monogramming.
I would like to learn more brazilian embroidery. Beverley baggett
I would love to learn needlepainting but my main focus is to learn to do satin stitches better. I do model work for an online designer and would feel better if my satin stitching was better. I’m pretty fussy about my work and never feel really good about the satin stitches. Thanks for the opportunity to win this beautiful kit.
Brenda Schiesser
brendaschiesser @gmail.com
I would definitely like to learn blackwork and white work. I have only learned a couple stitches and need a good reference book to learn the rest. I found an old white table runner at a yard sale with embroidery all in white. I wondered who would use white on white and why. At that time I had not even heard the term white work. Its simple and clean somehow. Blackwork seems more classic and old to me I think. I just get two different feelings from the two types of work.
Valerie in Virginia