Discover how to do basic embroidery stitches with our easy-to-follow step-by-step guide. Enhance your embroidery skills and create beautiful designs with these essential stitches.
This is the last of the outline stitches we'll be doing for a little while - and it's definitely the fanciest so far. Chain stitch is one of my favorite hand embroidery outline stitches, but it's not the first one I teach. I generally start with running stitch because that's the easiest stitch there is.
This graphic features different types of embroidery stitches with names on each photo. There are hundreds of different stitches, but these are some of the most common! Click the link to learn how to embroider each one of them.
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...