Silk Shading Garden Bird print satin stitch and long and

satin stitch and long and short stitch

trellis stitch

Materials included in the kit: china blue cotton fabric

Difficulty level: beginner to intermediate

This simple design will introduce you to a select range of embroidery stitches and a number of the techniques used to create both ribbonwork and stumpwork embroidery

Silk Shading Garden Bird print satin stitch and long andLearn the beautiful embroidery technique of silk shading to create this charming garden bird design of a long tailed tit. Fine stranded cotton threads are used to delicately blend between colours and to build up the texture of feathers. Silk Shading refers to the hand embroidery technique which uses a variety of long and short stitches and colour blending in stranded cotton or silk threads. Often referred to as painting with a needle, this technique