Hand embroidery tips and tricks

These are the most common beginner mistakes in hand embroidery. Avoid these mistakes if you want to excel at the art of hand embroidery.

Check out the 10 best hand embroidery stitches for outlining, filling and decorating designs, so you can conquer any hand embroidery project!

Download and practice these 9 hand embroidery stitches with this free hand embroidery pattern and step-by-step tutorial suited for beginners.

Need to trace your embroidery patterns onto your fabric? We've got you! Sophie Timms of Mindful Mantra Embroidery shares her 4 best tips for tracing embroidery patterns to fabric in this blog post. Filled with hand embroidery tips and tricks, read this post to find out more.

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Celebrate National Embroidery Month. Learn hand embroidery with these 29 stitching tutorials from MCreativeJ.

Oooh la la! French knots - so very fancy - and so very frustrating. When you don't know the trick to them, that is. For years I had a love/hate relationship with them. I loved the effect - there's nothing quite like it for teeny polkadots and nubbly texture. But I hated their unpredictability. Sometimes

Embroidery is a beautiful craft which includes different types of stitches. If you are a beginner looking for a tutorial on how to start embroidery with basic stitches, this one may be for you. Here I collected a number of embroidery stitches which is suitable for variety of design patterns. There are different types of […]

Celebrate National Embroidery Month. Learn hand embroidery with these 29 stitching tutorials from MCreativeJ.

10 Stitches in 7 Minutes | Beginners Guide to Hand Embroidery

First things first, before you dive into your embroidery project, I’d like to show you how you can start and finish your embroidery thread to secure it. Traditionally using knots to start and finish your embroidery thread is a big no-no. And there are several reasons for this. Firstly the knot can show through your

Do you struggle to neatly transfer your embroidery pattern onto fabric? Let us share our secrets! Click through to the blog post to find out our 4 best tips for transferring embroidery patterns onto fabric the simple way, without any overwhelm or hurdles along the way.

Embroidery lifehacks to make this journey easier for you

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Years ago, I wrote a series of articles on hand embroidered writing. The articles take you step-by-step through different embroidery stitches that work well for embroidered writing. Today, we’re going to add a stitch to that list – particularly, a stitch known today as the “Quaker Stitch” because it was formulated to work as the ...

Can't get the bullion knot right? Read this post to know which needle you need to use, an alternative (and easier) way to work bullion knot and the possible mistakes you might be making.

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Sometimes as people are on their embroidery journeys, they ask me how they can stitch more neatly. This article is my attempt to answer that question based on what I’ve learned in my own stitching, rather than what I think is “good embroidery” and “the way you have to do things”. If you’ve had some

What stitches do you use for embroidering letters by hand? How to do script fonts and initials? Get started with letter embroidery!