After you have bought your needlepoint embroidery’s painted canvas you would need to add stitches to it. Picking Stitches in Needlepoint is an important decision that you would need to take and using the accurate stitch in a right manner would polish your art and make the canvas beautiful.
Where do you use tent stitches?
Tent stitches are the most popular stitches in needlepoint embroidery. You use tent stitches in your canvas for the following reasons –
• You use these stitch to stitch neutral areas in the canvas.
• Tent stitches help the canvas to make its designs readable. Otherwise the ideas in the canvas would look very busy.
• Tent stitches are used to embroidery the face of a human and in areas where lot of shading work is required.
• Tent stitches also add textures to the embroidery in the canvas.
How do you choose stitches?
Picking Stitches in Needlepoint embroidery would involve what design you have in your canvas. For example if you are doing needlepoint embroidery on a cat, you would need stitches which have string geometrical sense when stitching the body of the cat. But if you are using a brick wall design you can use a ticket stitch.
What do you understand by the scale of the stitch?
The scale of the stitch should work with the scale in the canvas. By a thumbs rule any stitch should be used thrice in any direction in a specific color area. Otherwise the stitch is too big for the area. The larger is the scale of the stitch the more attention it would bring to itself. For example when stitching a sunflower if you want to bring attention to the center of the sunflower you have to add big stitches there.
Can the mesh determine the specific type of stitch which needs to be used?
Yes the mesh and the type of yarn used determines the type of stitch you would need to use. The number of yarns you use to make the needlepoint embroidery would also make it look dense and better in most cases.
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What is the best way?
If you are a beginner the best way is to stitch a small portion of a canvas and check out how the different stitches work. If it looks right you can move ahead and choose the same stitch in another area. If it does not work out then remove it and try out a few stitches and choose the most appropriate one for the area.
Most experts of needlepoint embroidery would advise a beginner to take time and learn thru the normal trial and error method. Also you have a strong aesthetic sense and make your eyes the best judge while choosing different stitches which are to be used in your canvas.