Silk Shading Garden Bird greetings card fabrics and needles required to

fabrics and needles required to complete this beautiful hand embroidery design and the clear instruction booklet with step by step photographs will guide you easily through your project

all of which are essential for creating a piece of silk shading

The traditional linen twill background fabric is provided with the design already transferred on for you

Appleton wool threads in delicate tones of blue

size 18 chenille needle

Silk Shading Garden Bird greetings card fabrics and needles required toLearn 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