Sunday, January 29, 2012

My First Needlepoint Experience

One of my new year's resolutions is to learn how to needlepoint. I didn't want to start on a miniature scale, so instead, I bought myself a plastic canvas and used some yarn to make a coaster. I used an image I found online for the pattern, and here it is.

Needlepoint Coaster

I got the hang of needlepointing, so I got my first needlepoint kit and started working on it. It is a beautiful humming bird design which is printed on the canvas with all the threads included.

Half way there!

This is my progress so far and I'm at a half way point.  I'm realizing how tedious and time consuming needlepoint is!

The humming bird is a complex design with more colors involved compared to the coaster, so I find it quite challenging. I have to think ahead on which colors to stitch first, so I can securely stitch the colors that have only few stitches. Even though, I was extremely careful, I still managed to miss some stitches. :-(

Close up

This is how the back looks and I'm not even sure if it's supposed to look like this.  Does it even matter how it looks on the back? Anyway, thinking of doing this in miniature scale seems more daunting than I initially thought!

The back.

I hope everyone is keeping up with their new years resolutions! Have a great week!

10 comments:

  1. Needlepointing is a lot of work and even more so in miniature. Your projects look great! :)

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  2. Beautiful work! The figure with the hummingbird is getting wonderful!

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  3. Te está quedando muy bién!!
    Besitos

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  4. The back looks extremely neat - I have done needle point, you do need to concentrate, however, I found it relaxing -keep at it you are doing a great job.
    Hugs
    Debs

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  5. You chose a beautiful design and done a wonderful job so far. It will look gorgeos when finished.
    Hugs

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  6. Your needle point is beautiful. I love the design. Good luck with it :)
    Hugs Maria

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  7. wow! Thank you everyone! So much! :-) xoxo, Amy

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  8. Yay, needlepoint! The back of your work looks quite immaculate :) It's true that moving to the miniature scale seems a bit daunting, but it's actually really pretty easy, with good light (and/or good eyes!) I know you'll do brilliantly!

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  9. @The Dangerous Mezzo and Meg: Thank you and welcome to my blog!

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