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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
How To Videos – NeedlenThread. com How To Videos Embroidery By Name, from A-Z Line Stitches Bands Running Stitch Whipped Running Stitch Backstitch Laced Backstitch Whipped Backstitch Stem Stitch Portuguese Knotted Stem Stitch Coral Stitch Outline Stitch Co
26 Tutorials for Chain Stitch Variations – NeedlenThread. com Oyster stitch: a combination of a twisted chain stitch inside a larger chain stitch, these stand on their own and make nice, plump ovals, great for leaves, flower petals, and oyster stitch rose buds Raised chain stitch band: a great way to create a nice, chunky composite stitch It makes great edgings when finishing ornaments and the like, too!
Outline Stitch Video Tutorial – NeedlenThread. com The outline stitch is a basic stitch used in hand embroidery for lines and filling It’s an easy embroidery stitch and works up quickly, with a nice rhythm You can work the stitch in a “sewing method” (in hand embroidery, this means “scooping” the fabric up with the needle to make the stitch) or a “stabbing method, which means taking the needle and thread all the way to the back
Stitch Tip: A Clean Start with Two Strands – NeedlenThread. com Take your first stitch forward along your design line, as shown above For this tutorial, I’m working a stem stitch line, but the principle holds true for any line stitch when working with an even number of strands of floss in the needle
Stitch Fun! Stem Stitch Rose Tutorial - NeedlenThread. com The stem stitch rose is pretty simple in concept The most complicated part about it is the center knot that’s often used to start the rose But I’ll let you in on a little secret below, after we go through the standard steps for the starting knot, in case you want to skip the knot altogether You can make any size roses with this technique We’ll discuss that below, too Materials Used
Stitch Fun: Cretan Stitch Leaves - NeedlenThread. com Lower right: Cretan stitch leaf with coton a broder #25 Lower left: Cretan stitch leaf with cotton floche, worked with a little more space between the stitches to give an open, sketchy look For more Stitch Fun articles, feel free to visit the Stitch Fun Index, where you’ll find all the articles in the series conveniently listed for your
Highlighting Satin Stitch – NeedlenThread. com Following the arrival and distribution of Elisabetta Sforza's new book on padded satin stitched monograms earlier this year, I've received lots of little questions here and there lately about satin stitch techniques Today seems like as good a day as any - especially because I'm pushing a deadli
Hand Embroidery: Lettering and Text 4: Stem Stitch Stem stitch is a beautiful rope-like hand embroidery stitch that works great for writing with a needle and thread There are two real difficulties with stem stitch: stitch direction and curves I'll try to eliminate both of those difficulties in this tutorial Before venturing into the tutorial, you
Tips Techniques – NeedlenThread. com Tips Techniques A list of all kinds of hand embroidery tutorials, tips, and techniques, including beginner tips for embroidery, tips on transferring embroidery patterns and designs, working with specific embroidery threads, tips on goldwork, on silk shading, on individual embroidery stitches