See this lovely picture of a mountainscape? Wouldn’t it be a wonderful needlepoint? To make one of your own, mark the outline of the shape you want on your canvas. Next, create an irregular edge the width of your finished piece and use it to trace each range of mountains on your canvas. The painting used four, a good amount. Be sure to use a pen made for drawing on canvas.
You don’t have to make the mountains fill the space, you can leave some sky, so it’s like the Blue Ridge canvas pictured below.
You’ve got the basic design. Now to pick colors. You’ll need four colors of thread, getting successively lighter and, possibly, grayer. They can be shades of a single color or different colors
Since stitches aren’t flat like the paint you will have to pick four or them too. They should become less and less textured as the colors get lighter.
Now that you have your design on canvas and your threads and stitches picked — go out and stitch!
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Janet,
Love the photo. Out of curiosity can you use an over-dyed for the bottom as well as the top? I can see the bottom in such thread and it would give you the dark and light like foliage. But would it be to distracting to the eye to use a pale over-dyed for the sky? Would it make the eye focus more on the top and bottom and not so much on the middle?
Claudia
I think that an overdye would be best for the bottom, you’re right it would look like foliage. Using overdyes elsewhere they would need to be extremely subtle or, you’re right, they would distract.
Keep Stitching,
Janet