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Recently I got a wonderful book about needlepainting pollinating insects and flowers, and it has a section with exercises to get you into needlepainting. I had a few fabrics I wanted to try out, as well as some silks, so I'm going to have a go. Here is the first exercise in the book, with my set-up:



A close-up (rotten colours as I photographed it at night by lamp light) to show the texture of the thread - you can see the individual silk filaments at some points:



And a daylight pic with my progress so far beside a standard match to give an idea of the scale. The silk is very very fine and the stitching is not quick. Trying to split something that fine takes concentration

How interesting!

Another fine thing to explore!

Really tiny stitching. Didn't realize at first that was a matchstick. Is it the size that makes needlepointing different than other embroidery? I think I'll have to do a google search.

Carole

needlepAinting rather than needlepOinting, but yes it's generally on a slightly smaller scale than other embroidery (although you could do an enormous needlepainted picture, it would just take you ages )
This uses a fine silk which is about half the thickness of a strand of DMC, but I have also done some at an RSN workshop which used DMC (1 strand) so that went a bit quicker.

Thank you for the info. And thank "autocorrect" for needlepointing instead of needlepainting. (Almost did it to me again )

Carole