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Embroidery Tutorials

Category: <span>Embroidery Tutorials</span>

Step-by-step directions for embroidery stitches, including videos and samplers. Our embroidery tutorials provide tips and hints for stitching basic to complex stitches to embellish your project. Embroidery stitches add visual interest to garments, home dec items, quilts, toys and more! Browse through our embroidery tutorials and find a new stitch to try today!

Back Stitch Embroidery Tutorials

Back stitch embroidery pig sample

How to Back Stitch Embroidery: Tutorial with Video

For an unbroken stitched line of hand embroidery, there’s nothing quite like the back stitch! It’s one of the most popular hand embroidery stitches among newer stitchers for its simplicity...

Running Stitch Embroidery Tutorials

Running Stitch sample

Running Stitch Embroidery: Instructions and YouTube

The Running Stitch is the simplest and quickest of all embroidery stitches and creates simple lines and outlines. So many stitches use the running stitch as the basis, like the...

Laced Running Stitch sample

Laced Running Stitch: Hand Embroidery Tutorial

What fun! I loved doing this stitch and love the effect! The Laced Running Stitch is an easy variation on the running stitch, but looks like you did a lot...

Whipped Running stitch sampler

Embroidery: Whipped Running Stitch (Cordonnet Stitch)

The whipped running stitch is a quick and easy way to outline a shape, giving texture to the line and producing a twisted cord effect. You can either use the...

More Embroidery Tutorials

Fern stitch finished 3

Fern Stitch Embroidery

The fern stitch is great for vegetation fill on your hand embroidery project. Vary the threads and size of the stitches to convey different sizes of plants.
Pekinese stitch finished

Pekinese Stitch

The Pekinese stitch makes a great outline where you want more texture with its loops. Perfect hand embroidery stitch for linear surface design.
Cable Stitch Sample

Cable Embroidery Stitch

The cable stitch works well for straight and curved lines in your embroidery project. It is worked left to right with parallel lines of stitching.
Basic Arrowhead Stitch

Basic Arrowhead Stitch Hand Embroidery Tutorial

The Arrowhead Embroidery Stitch is a great stitch for a row or border, or as a fill stitch. Two straight stitches are connected to form an arrow shape..
Finished sample of the bosnian embroidery stitch

Bosnian Embroidery Stitch

The Bosnian Stitch is a zig zag stitch that can be used as a row or border stitch, or to fill a space. Sometimes it is called a fence or…
Stacked arrowhead sampler

Embroidery: Stacked Arrowhead Stitch

The Stacked (or Vertical) Arrowhead Stitch is a variation of the basic Arrowhead Stitch. It can be worked with gaps or close together, often to make leaves.
Finished sample of Algerian Eye embroidery stitch using #8 pearl cotton

Embroidery: Algerian Eye Stitch

The Algerian Eye Stitch is also known as the Algerian Eyelet Stitch or the Star Eyelet Stitch. It is used in cross stitch, embroidery and hardanger.
Double Laced Running Stitch finished

Laced Double Running Stitch

The Laced Double Running Stitch starts with two running stitches on separate lines. Lace the working thread between the two lines for a zigzag effect.
Star Stitch Sampler

Star Stitch Embroidery: How To Tutorial with Video

The Star Stitch can be used as a combination stitch, or as a filler stitch on your hand embroidery projects. Each star has 8 or more points. Lots of variations.

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