Silk Shading Garden Bird greetings card blending colours and shading

blending colours and shading

chain stitch

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

size 18 chenille needle

Small greetings cards are printed on high quality textured card

Silk Shading Garden Bird greetings card blending colours and shadingLearn 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