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A great stitch for adding a little puff and fluff to your embroidery! Raised Buttonhole Band An easy way to create a textured, raised, thick line or band of embroidery. Small Knot Stitches: There are several small knot stitches that work great for adding texture, including the French knot, the colonial knot, and the Chinese knot. Cast-On Stitch:
Embroidery Stitches by Name, from A-Z. This is an Alphabetical Listing of Hand Embroidery Stitches, with links to video tutorials for each stitch. As more stitch videos are added to Needle ‘n Thread, the stitches will be added to this list as well as to the visual index above.
Thanks for the list of stitches for stems and branches and the links to the instructions, this is such a useful and helpful list as sometimes when starting a project it is difficult to choose the stitches to use. I must invest in stitch dictionary book. Thanks for sharing with us this very useful stitch list and for the links. Regards Anita ...
Once these stitches are mastered, it’s very easy to move into other specific embroidery techniques. Here, you can see diagrams of different stitches, with an explanation of how to execute them. The stitches are categorized by “stitch families” – for example, outline stitches, chain stitches, detached stitches, knots, filling stitches, etc.
To help you answer that question, I’ve rounded up 16 different filling techniques that can be effectively used in embroidery, with links to articles and tutorials. Satin Stitch. Satin stitch is the queen of filling stitches. It’s gorgeous and versatile, but really only suitable for smaller areas that need filling.
Stem Stitch is also used in Casalguidi Embroidery, worked over thick string to create a highly textured, super-raised stem stitch rope. You can find instructions for this Casalguidi embroidery technique here. And finally, stem stitch can be used to fill an area, by working rows of stem stitch close together.
You could definitely use an outline stitch for that, though, if you wanted to go with a surface embroidery stitch. But usually on counted cross stitch, the stitches are backstitch, straight stitch, cross stitch, and occasionally, you’ll see surface stitches like French knots. But my guess is that they mean a regular straight stitch. Hope that ...
If you're left-handed and you embroider, and you find embroidery stitches and diagrams difficult to follow, you might be interested in this bit o' news...Yvette Stanton of Vetty Creations is planning to put together a left-handed stitch dictionary. There are a couple stitch dictionaries available (I
We've been talking a lot about tambour embroidery recently, and since I promised a tutorial for you, here's a video on the basic stitch! The very best way to get familiar with tambour embroidery is just to do it - that is, sit down with a hook, a piece of fabric in a hoop, and some thread, and tr
Knotted Line & Band Stitches. There are many knotted line stitches and knotted band stitches (and knotted variations on other stitches) that work great for adding texture and interest to embroidery. This is a list of my favorite knotted stitches that are worked on a line or in a band. Palestrina Stitch