Needlepoint Stitch Guide for Midnight Garden

Midnight Garden needlepoint design with decorative stitches

Stitch Guide for Midnight Garden

First sort your threads so you know what colors go where. Use the key down the side of the canvas to help with this. These are the threads that should be included in your kit, in order that they appear on the key. Please note, from time to time we need to make substitutions based on thread availability.

Pepperpot Silk Provence	1 skein
Pepperpot Silk Fountain	1 skein
Pepperpot Silk Pistachio	26 strands
Pepperpot Silk Cider	26 strands
Pepperpot Silk Tarragon	26 strands
Pepperpot Silk Key Lime	26 strands
Pepperpot Silk Juniper Berry	26 strands
Pepperpot Silk Tea	26 strands
Pepperpot Silk Raspberry	13 strands
Pepperpot Silk Papaya	13 strands
Pepperpot Silk Zinfindel	6 strands
Essentials Ribbon	1 card
Snow Royal Blue (metallic)	10 strands
Snow Spearmint (metallic)	10 strands
DMC 3813 cotton floss	1 skein

You can stitch the canvas in any order and move around how the mood takes you.

Brick Stitch:

Kalem Stitch:

Upright Cross Stitch:

Mosaic Stitch:

Nobuko Stitch:

Diagonal Mosaic Stitch:

Alternating Continental Stitch:

Rhodes Circle:

Gobelin Stitch:

Up two and over two.

French Knots:

We did these as surface embroidery over the underlying Upright Cross stitches. Bring the needle up and down in the same hole for a tight knot. We also placed French knots on the bottom blue flower sepals. Here is a video on How to make a French Knot in needlepoint.

Leaf:

The orange leaves were free-stitched. We brought stitches of varying lengths into the center of the leaf (following the shape of the leaf) to form a center line. We then placed a long stitch down this center line.

Chain Stitch:

The green stems use a green metallic. The stems are back-stitched and each leaf is a single chain stitch. (The diagram shows a line of chain stitches).

Background—Skip Tent Stitch:

Reach out to us with any questions and enjoy!