Freehand Needle Painting: Embroider the Beauty of Wildlife

Learn to create realistic, nature-inspired embroidery using freehand, needle painting techniques

• Introduction
• Getting Ready to Embroider
• Embroidering the Squirrel
• After the Final Stitch: Backing Your Embroidery
• Final project

Delve into the world of needle and thread to create beautiful animal hand embroidery. Join embroidery artist Chloe Giordano as she shares her passion for needlework. Since university, she’s been using wildlife as inspiration in her work, which has led her to collaborate on book covers and illustrate children’s books for publishers including Penguin and Bloomsbury.

In this course, Chloe shares her expertise to guide you to create realistic animal embroidery of your own. Learn how to take inspiration from the world around you and transform it into art using freehand needle painting techniques.

• About Me
• Influences
• Materials
• Sketching Your Design
• Choosing Colours
• Hoop and Practice Stitching
• Transferring the Design
• The Head 1
• The Head 2
• The Neck and Shoulders 1
• The Neck and Shoulders 2
• The Torso
• The Background
• Transferring to the Final Hoop
• Photographing Your Embroidery
• Freehand Needle Painting: Embroider the Beauty of Wildlife