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- Stitch Fun: Stacked Herringbone - Its Double, but its Not
Today, we're going to enjoy a bit of Stitch Fun - musing about a stitch, wondering about its name, and showing you how it's worked Stitch Fun! is this series of stitching tutorials here on Needle 'n Thread In the series, we explore different embroidery stitches mostly as combinations or composi
- 10 Hand Embroidery Stitches for Stems Branches
A Good Stitch Dictionary is Useful! If you want to explore other possibilities further, I strongly suggest investing in a good stitch dictionary! A good stitch dictionary will help you master a whole variety of stitches, so that you have a wide repertoire to pull from, when you’re debating about how to interpret stems or branches in embroidery
- Ready-to-Stitch: A Different Approach – NeedlenThread. com
The ready-to-stitch towels make great “relaxing” stitching projects, they leave plenty of room for personal adaption in color choice and stitches, they can be embroidered as simply or as extravagantly as you like, they make great gifts, they’re perfect teaching tools for yourself or for friends and family who want to learn to stitch
- Favorite Old Embroidery Books – Free for Downloading
A Book of Fancy Designs for Ornamenting Oriental Work – (PDF) – This is essentially a collection of interesting stitch patterns for crazy quilting Anand’s Embroidery Book: Hand Drawn Designs to Use in Machine Embroidery – (PDF) – Don’t be put off by the title, even if you aren’t into machine embroidery
- Hand Embroidery Needles: How to Choose Them Use Them
Lately, I’ve been needled a lot about hand embroidery needles – lots of questions from beginners and beyond about this mysterious tool that we certainly can’t live without Today, I want to share a few points about hand embroidery needles, so that you can make a good choice when you select the needle you’ll use on your next embroidered masterpiece
- Embroidery Stitches by Name, from A-Z – NeedlenThread. com
Alternate Stitch Names I cross-checked the stitch names through a stack of about 10 well-known and well-respected stitch dictionaries (old and new) to find alternate names for some of the stitches If you go through the list on the website and find any alternates I missed, do feel free to drop me a line or leave a comment below I’d
- Stitch Archives - a Super-Raised Stem Stitch - NeedlenThread. com
The nature of the raised part of the embroidery is basically a super-dee-duper padded stem stitch You’ll find a very thorough step-by-step photo tutorial for this ultra-raised stem stitch, or Casalguidi stitch, here If you like the look of Casalguidi, but you don’t want something quite so raised, you might enjoy raised stem stitch instead
- Embroidery Stitch Templates - for Straight Uniform Stitches
Embroidery Stitch Templates come in a package of six clear acetate sheets that can be cut down into strips by following the guidelines on the sheets All in a heap, this is pretty much what they look like The sheets are sectioned off into horizontal strips, and within each horizontal strip is a stitching layout marked by blue lines
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