Needlepainting for Beginners: Story of Peony

Read on for the behind-the-scenes view of the final project :)



The beginner needle painting course I'm starting this month focuses on long and short sewing exercises . But working with practice alone can feel tedious and tedious, and while I’ve tried to make shapes and elements beautiful, it’s still not something that many of us want to apply to walls.


That’s why I created this project. Finish the course with elegance and class.

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And before we finally get a glimpse of how it looks, I decided to give you a little peek behind the scenes and tell you a little bit about the design development process.

In fact, I've covered this topic before in other blog posts . But each design is born in a unique way and there is always a special story to tell.

Now it's time for Penny's story :)


Peony's inspiration was the watercolor painting that I showed you in one of the previous posts. I really liked the result and I was wondering how it would be sewn (yes yes I see pictures, diagrams and obviously everything and I thought how it would be embroidered on the fabric ...).

So when it came time to come up with a layout for the course, I still couldn't get Peony out of my head and decided to adapt it for the course.

In the top corner of the image above you can see a sewn eraser which is very helpful to understand what this piece looks like.

After numerous unsuccessful attempts to find a sufficiently similar color for small flowers or to change the color that satisfies me, they needed to be abandoned and the subject left.

It was a strange experience to sit under the window for hours trying to find the thread and to work on this little flower over and over again. I think his fate is only on watercolor paper.

Since the small flowers left the subject, further adjustments had to be made to compensate for the new white space.

I also had to replace the sepals because they were too small in the picture. And the actual leaf is not typical of peonies, but something that I pulled out of my head without any clue.


After editing the design here and there, I dropped the peonies and completely changed the page. You can see the sketch in the left corner.

What I like most about this design is that it is flexible for every stapler. If you find the whole pattern a little complicated, you can remove the top sheet and sew the bottom. Or you can just sew peonies; It only takes one line to continue. Or maybe you just want to embroider leaves without flowers.

It is possible for you to adapt to this with your enthusiasm and confidence without being tested :)


Isn't she so beautiful? I hope you like it too! 3