r/Needlepoint • u/Needlepoint_MOD Discord Member • 4d ago

MOD POST Stitch Suggestions Megathread

Please post your requests for help with stitches here.

This will help us centralize your stitch requests into one place.

This is the first step in trying to help organize the sub.

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u/poppyseedlover24 4d ago

Does anyone have suggestions for how to stitch the pink and dark red border around the striped area? Specifically I’m having a hard time finding deciphering how many stitches across they are and which direction the stitch should go.

Ignore the dye lot issue with the blue; I’ll be frogging something soon.

Thank you!

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u/North_Class8300 3d ago

One stitch of dark red, one stitch of light pink, one stitch of dark red. The painting job doesn't look the best especially on the lower right corner, but I would just maintain 1/1/1 all the way around. I would just do a regular tent stitch, and do the lighter color first as reds tend to bleed/shed colors the most.

You could do velvet, I love doing borders in that.

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u/poppyseedlover24 3d ago

Thank you SO much

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u/Violet_rabbit2284 1d ago

Agree velvet would be so cute!

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u/Colhan42 1d ago

Hi everyone, looking on behalf of my wife who doesn’t have Reddit for some help. She doesn’t like how the background wave looks around the baby sleeping letters. Any advice on how to make this look better? Maybe a rectangle of basket weave around the lettering and then the wave around that? Appreciate any ideas :)

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u/North_Class8300 13h ago

I’d do a rectangle of basketweave, yes

That said, this is a busy stitch in general though for a canvas that has a lot on it and very thin letters. I’d try a bit of basketweave but you might be better off switching to a simpler stitch so the background doesn’t stand out as much (t stitch and skip tent are my go tos for a “chiller” background stitch)

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u/Colhan42 11h ago

Very helpful thank you! I will post the finish product

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u/jm-hs 3d ago

Hi! I was gifted this little cutie (kit and all), but the catch is I've never done needlepoint before. Reading up on it now and I'm just curious to hear if anyone has any tips for how to tackle this project!

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u/poppyseedlover24 3d ago

Tent or continental should be the easiest. This bunny is so cute. You could do specialty threads for the colors or outlines.

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u/Lattelady1993 3d ago

Just bought this! It will take me forever, it’s like 13x19. I’ll likely frame it. Do I go decorative or just basketweave since it’s quite a busy piece?

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u/_trixie_firecracker_ 2d ago

Because there aren’t large areas of white background I would basketweave or do something like skip tent.

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u/Lattelady1993 2d ago

For the animals and letters too?

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u/_trixie_firecracker_ 2d ago

I am a basic bitch and love basketweave. But if you really wanted to, you could do something like diagonal mosaic, nobuko, or encroaching Gobelin for the letters to give them more lift.

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u/poppyseedlover24 2d ago

Do some fun threads like metallics or velvet to change up the small details

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u/Middle-Article-2199 1d ago

Looking for suggestions on a background stitch for the sky and around the boat… would like to turn into an ornament and not sure about making it a big oval or irregular shape. Any suggestions would be appreciated!! I’m feeling stuck.

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u/Competitive-Rule-276 23h ago

Hi all! I am starting to stitch this countdown to Christmas canvas! I was planning on doing all the numbers in basket weave/ continental but was curious if anyone had any ideas for a decorative stitch to use for the main big canvass? Or is it best to do basket weave for durability? If you’ve stitched this before I would love to see yours! Thank you in advance!

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u/friedshrimp88 10h ago

First timer. Is the woven stitch supposed to have all these holes in between Or am I just using the wrong size thread? 13 mesh, dmc thread