Design Your Own Needlepoint Canvas by Anna Maria Horner

Intermediate | 12 min 10 sec

Design Your Own Needlepoint Canvas
Overview00:49
Materials00:43
Designing your canvas 10:38

Taught by Anna Maria Horner

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Love needlepoint? Want to follow your own creative vision rather than stitch a printed needlepoint canvas? Anna Maria Horner teaches you how to design your own! Starting with an artwork reference of your choice, you’ll learn how match your tapestry wool and paint colors to your artwork. Anna Maria then shows you how to trace and paint the design onto your needlepoint canvas, creating your very own custom needlepoint kit.

Want to learn how to needlepoint? Watch Anna Maria’s class on Creativebug.

Here’s what you’ll need:

Reference artwork image, enlarged to fit the canvas size of your choice
4 ply Anchor Tapestry Wool skeins in colors to match reference artwork
Acrylic paint to match wool colors
Unprinted needlepoint canvas or mesh (Anna uses 12-point mesh)
Scissors
Pencil
Paintbrushes in several sizes
Palette or paper plate
Water
Paper towels
Wax paper
Masking tape

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Learn how to:

Design and trace your image onto canvas mesh
Paint canvas mesh with corresponding colors
Tape off and label canvas to complete tapestry kit

What you’ll get:

Step-by-step expert instruction from Anna Maria Horner on how to design your own needlepoint sampler.
3 HD video lessons you can access online anytime, anywhere
Detailed supplies list
The ability to leave comments, ask questions, and interact with other students