Best Threads for Hand Embroidery: Floss and Thread Guide
Changing up the stitches is certainly a big element in making your hand embroidery as creative as it can be, but what you choose to stitch with adds yet another...
Embroidery
Embroidery, whether by hand or machine, is gaining popularity as a fiber arts technique that anyone can do. Some folks prefer to follow a pattern for tried and true embroidery designs. Others will take their embroidery stitches in brand new directions to create original art. And stitches can look very different depending on your choice of embroidery thread – color, weight, twist and fiber all add unique elements that make your work unique.
Beginners will find patterns and tutorials to learn everything from French Knots to Lazy Daisies. Experienced stitchers will find inspiration and resources while exploring the creations of working embroidery artists. So, let’s start stitching!
Embroidery Basics
10 Easy Embroidery Stitches to Embellish Your Projects
Hand embroidery is so relaxing, and small projects can go anywhere with you. There are a gazillion stitches out there. (Sometimes we invent our own if we embrace little slips...
Best Tools for Hand Embroidery
I love to stitch, and I’ve found that I enjoy the experience much more when I have my favorite tools close at hand. Hand embroidery doesn’t require a lot of...
Embroidery Artists and Inspiration
Spotlight: Michelle Kingdom, Embroidery Artist
With a strong sense of narrative, Michelle Kingdom embraces embroidery as an art form that has long been sidelined as "women's work". With lines of stitching, she creates textural drawings...
Spotlight: Alexis Acevedo, Embroidery Artist
Alexis Acevedo was studying fashion design when the needlepoint bug that had bitten her in childhood came buzzing back with the infinite design possibilities of color and texture she could...
Spotlight: Shirley Hudson, Designer
While her first embroidery project at age 10 presented challenges, Shirley Hudson is glad she persisted. She has made a career out of stitch, and her work designing patterns doesn't...
Sashiko Embroidery
Beginner’s Guide to Sashiko Supplies
Whether a student of historical Japanese Sashiko or a Modern Creative just looking for an easy, enjoyable slow stitching project, Sashiko might be “it”. All you need are simple sashiko...
How to Sashiko Stitch: A Step-by-Step Guide
Sometimes I want to get a project done really fast, but lately I have picked up a hand stitching project when I want to unwind. The slow, meditative process of...
How to Make Sashiko Ornaments
Making Sashiko ornaments is a great way to see what the slow-stitch movement is all about. It's slow stitch, to be sure, but the projects are so small you can...
More Embroidery
Spotlight: Gwen Rucker, Textile Artist
Gwen Rucker has found art to be a soothing activity for as long as she can remember. She is inspired by tiny details, shapes and color combinations in unexpected places.…
Spotlight: Alicja Kozlowska, Fiber Artist
Alicja Kozlowska is a contemporary fiber artist creating 3D embroidered felt sculptures of everyday objects. She is inspired by daily life, mass culture and drawn to things we may not…
Broderie Perse Appliqué, How To Tutorial by Machine or Hand
Looking for another reason to take a perfectly good piece of fabric and cut it up to make something new? Broderie perse is an appliqué technique where motifs, such as…
Spotlight: Theresa Wensing, Embroidery Artist
Theresa Wensing creates embroidery designs using a calm, pastel color palette to create works of art that are bold and sometimes not ladylike. Her patterns are designed to show people…
Spotlight: Riki Inge, Fiber Artist
Riki Inge creates fiber art with her hand dyed fabrics layered with acrylic paints and hand stitching to create depth and texture. Using her graphic design skills she launched her…
Spotlight: Lynn Comley, Felt Artist
Lynn Comley, aka UpandDownDale, learned the basics of felt making and then began experimenting with incorporating other fibers to create interesting textures. Her works are inspired by the photographs she takes…
Spotlight: Rosanna Diggs, Embroidery Artist
Rosanna Diggs is inspired by the adventures with her family creating unique embroidery designs capturing the beauty of nature. Started by participating in a 100 day project, her embroidery designs…
Chicken Scratch Hand Embroidery: Free Tutorial
Chicken scratch embroidery is also referred to as gingham embroidery, Broiderie Suisse, Australian cross stitch and depression lace. It is a traditional type of embroidery stitched on gingham fabric, a…