Types of stitches

If you've never embroidered, have only just started, or only know a few of the stitch techniques, then you'll appreciate this Common and Traditional Embroidery Stitches Infographic. While there are dozens of embroidery stitches to learn, this downloadable chart features different types of embroidery stitches in pdf form. Save this chart and start working through these stitches or keep it handy for when you want to learn. Anyone who hand sews will want to memorize and learn the most common…

The following post will help in your quest to decide which types of sewing stitches are best for your project.

Stitch tutorials, lessons, tips for better stitches and samplers for practice - everything in one free library.

Basic Stitches Britannica Online Encyclopedia Dressmaking is a craft of making dresses. It is the basis and the start of the fashion world. When you make dresses, you will be called a dressmaker or historically, modiste. Learning the basics of...

This page gives you an idea of how the reverse of the basic stitches looks like. As a beginner, we are curious to know how the reverse or the back-side should end up - just to make sure that we are stitching the right way. So, I have picked the...

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I love ombre. Whether it's on a dress, or on a wall, I just love the effect. And for a while now I've been mulling over the idea of creating an ombre embroidery sampler. (I should add here that Wordpress wants me to correct "ombre" to "hombre". I think that would be a very different piece…

Back in December I had the amazing privilege of helping renowned textile artist Diana Springall in producing one of the fabulous new course...

Thank you to all of you who wrote about your favorite stitch this past week for the 2000 Likes on Facebook Giveaway. I loved hearing your descriptions of how certain stitches bring back sweet memor…

Apply Crazy Quilt Stitches

Keeping track of all of the different stitch functions on your sewing machine can seem overwhelming, but with our free Guide to Mastering Different Stitches, you won't ever have to worry about not knowing the difference between a blend hem and a blin

Learn the common types of sewing stitches. Although there are quite a few types of stitches, this is only the beginning.

Stitches, stitches, and evermore stitches! Have you ever wondered when and where and how to use all those stitches you see (or sometimes don't see) on

I love embroidery samplers. While the purpose of the sampler is to use a variety of stitches, the simple compositions always capture my imagination. Samplers aren’t fussy. They are all about…