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: Murriel Mapa, Embroidery Artist
Murriel Mapa picked up an embroidery kit and fell in love with stitching. After doing a few kits, she tried making her own designs. She now sells her designs as…
Spotlight: Jenny Bolhofner, Felt Artist
Jenny Bolhofner found herself looking for a creative outlet and discovered felt food tutorials. Creating art with layers of felt and hand stitching, she manipulates the fibers and layers textures,…
Spotlight: Anna and Piotr Angiel, Embroidery Artists
Meet Anna and Piotr Angiel, who create embroidery art and kits inspired by their hikes in the mountains of the Canadian Rockies. Piotr's photographs of their adventures are translated into…
Spotlight: Samantha Montella, Fiber Artist
Samantha Montella is a self-taught fiber artist who creates shaped weaving with embroidery and needle felting. She specializes in home portraits that are inspired by books, fairy tales and fantasy…
Spotlight: Manoela Grigorova, Embroidery and Mixed Media Artist
Manoela Grigorova (a.k.a Mojo and Muse) found her creative passion during the pandemic, merging her experimentation with alcohol inks and basic embroidery into colorful works of art full of texture.…
Spotlight: Rita Gaspar, Thread Painter
Rita Gaspar tried her hand at crochet and cross-stitch and wanted to try something different. She now creates detailed portraits with thread (and sometimes beads) on unique fabric backgrounds. Inspired…
Spotlight: Zena van de Poel, Embroidery Artist
Zena van de Poel started stitching at the beginning of the Pandemic, creating small pieces of art for her friends and family across the world. Inspired by memories of her…
Spotlight: Bettina Csolkovits, Photographer and Embroidery Artist
Meet Bettina Csolkovits. Inspired by her favorite things from her childhood, she creates 3D hand-embroidered works of art. Look closely at all of the details. She plans her work for…