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Embroidery Stitch Guide: Videos and Tutorials for Hand Embroidery

Updated: Oct 31


Embroidery Stitch Guide: Videos and Tutorials

Want to learn a specific embroidery stitch? Have questions about why your stitches aren't turning out? Or maybe you're just looking to expand your hand embroidery stitch knowledge?


Use this post as an embroidery stitch guide to find all of my hand embroidery stitch videos and step-by-step tutorials. You'll find beginner-friendly basic embroidery stitches like the satin stitch, back stitch, and French knot as well as more intricate and advanced embroidery stitches like the woven picot stitch and the cast on stitch. You'll even find variations of stitches!


Hand Embroidery Stitch Guide: Video and Step-By-Step Tutorials

Stitch tutorials are updated regularly. If you do not see a hyper-link on a specific stitch, those videos and step-by-step instructions are in the works and will be added soon.


Back Stitch


Basket Weave/ Woven Stitch


Bullion Knot


Buttonhole Stitch and Variations


Cast On Stitch and Variations


Chain Stitch and Variations

Chinese Knot


Colonial Knot


Couching


Cross Stitch


Detached Chain/ Lazy Daisy Stitch and Variations


Drizzle Stitch


Ending Thread

  • Sinking Thread

  • Slip Knot

  • Square Knot


Fabric Slip

  • Fabric Slip


Feather Stitch


Fly Stitch Variations


Four-Legged Knot


French Knot


Herringbone Stitch and Variations


Knots- Decorative


Lacing

  • Lacing


Ladder Stitch

  • Ladder Stitch

  • Beaded Ladder Stitch


Leaf Stitch and Variations


Needle Weaving Stitches


Pistil Stitch


Raised Cup Stitch

  • Raised Cup Stitch


Rhodes Stitch

  • Rhodes Stitch


Ribbed Spider Web Stitch


Running Stitch


Satin Stitch and Variations


Seed Stitch


Spiral Trellis Stitch

Stab Stitch

  • Stab Stitch


Starting Thread

  • Covered Stitches Start

  • Laid Thread Start

  • Loop Start

  • Quilter's Knot

  • Waste Knot


Stem Stitch


Straight Stitch

  • Straight Stitch


Tassel Stitch

  • Tassel Stitch


Thread Painting

  • Thread Painting for Stumpwork


Turkey Work


Wire Slip

  • Wire Slip


Wire Wrap

  • Wire Wrap


Woven Picot Stitch


Woven Wagon Wheel


Wrapped Beads

  • Wrapped Beads


 

Looking for more helpful embroidery tips, supplies, and hands-on workshops?



Workshops

Join Melissa Galbraith of MCreativeJ for a hands-on workshop! Melissa makes hand embroidery easy with a wide variety of embroidery classes. Classes are beginner-friendly to advanced and will walk you through a wide variety of stitches, techniques, and designs.

Find all upcoming workshops at: www.mcreativej.com/upcoming-seattle-events




Embroidery Books

Want a great hand embroidery reference? Try one of Melissa's hand embroidery books! Each book is great for beginners and breaks down materials, stitches, techniques, and projects for you.


Hand embroidery stitch tutorials from MCreativeJ

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