Surface embroidery

Grab your morning cuppa and let’s have a chat about surface embroidery! Terminology can be a huge source of confusion for beginning embroiderers, and even for stitchers who have been plying the needle for years. While there are lots of terminology lists with short definitions out there, I’ve always found that the one-line definition of ...

You might remember that, last autumn, I was fiddling around a bit with some fun needle woven fillings that can be used to add color, texture, and pattern to large areas of embroidery. Needle weaving is pretty much just weaving embroidery thread on the surface of fabric. In concept, it’s not too complicated. But the ...

Index page for a Stitch Dictionary of hand embroidery stitch tutorials. A library of Illustrated step by step instructions for each stitch.

The fun thing about free style surface embroidery is that you can add texture and dimension here and there, just by changing up the stitches a bit. Flowers, for example, don’t have to be embroidered just in daisy stitch. Lines and borders sometimes need a bit more oomph to them than backstitch or stem stitch ...

Here are 9 of my go-to hand embroidery stitches for filling in spaces, step-by-step instructions, and examples.

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If you don't know what to stitch and don't want to start anything big, do some small stitching and turn it into a journal :) A tutorial inside! *Do you remember the embroidery art journal that I've made recently? It's getting a sibling! :)* I'm currently going through a little creative... confusion. It wouldn't be correct to call it a “block” because, in fact, the problem is that I have far too many ideas for projects, patterns, courses outlined in my notebook and I just don't know what to…

Discover the different types of Indian surface works from zari to chikan - precious things that seem to be from another time.

Traditional Chikankari Embroidery at a NYC based company. The city of Lucknow with its detailed architecture is synonymous with Chikankari embroidery.