Hilltop poppies painting with thread free embroidery design

Recommended materials for photo stitch

For embroidery large-sized paintings as a basis, I recommend using flax. When choosing linen fabric, be guided by its structure. The fabric should be flat, smooth. Do not choose coarse linen fabric. It keeps its shape poorly and is not suitable for embroidery designs using the photo stitch technique.
For ease of wadding, the size of the base fabric should exceed the size of the picture. So, for example, for embroidery of a 30x40 cm painting, we need a piece of fabric of about 50x70 cm.
Use when stitching a tight tear-off glue stabilizer the size of a piece of cloth.
You can embroider paintings with both viscose and polyester. The main thing - to choose the right palette of threads.
As the lower thread, I use a thin overlock thread Serafil or a special lower thread No. 120-150.
I want to draw your attention to the fact that in addition to the main palette, you will have to choose two contrasting threads of any color that will be used when embroidering basting lines at the end and beginning of each embroidered file.