A French knot is a knot stitch made by wrapping thread once or twice around the needle and pulling through, leaving a small and beautiful knot on the fabric’s surface. This is one stitch every embroiderer should be learning early in the learning process, but most of the first timers have a dread of this … Read more
Hand embroidery is a wonderful thing. Simple one-dimensional outlines drawn on fabric are filled with some colorful threads, and you have a beautiful work of art that delights and rejuvenates your mind and comes alive in different dimensions. Most of the stitches in hand embroidery can be used to fill these design outlines. Even the … Read more
There is no wonder the needle painting is called that. It is literally painting with your hand-sewing needle and embroidery thread ie, embroidering realistic-looking designs with small straight stitches, which almost look like paint strokes. The whole design is filled with small straight stitches, either long and short or of the same length resulting in … Read more
Bullion knots are one of the most versatile stitches in the whole Hand embroidery stitch types repertoire. They are used in almost all types of embroidery techniques – be it cutwork, Brazilian embroidery, lacework, wool to wool embroidery. It is a staple decoration on smocking designs. You can see bullion roses on all the kids’ finely made dresses. In … Read more
All of us have a photo to which we have a little partiality. It may be that of your grandmother or that of a beautiful flower which you took as a fledgling photographer or your baby smiling. What if you could turn it into a work of art with your embroidery skills. It is easy enough to do that and very … Read more
This post provides you some very simple hand embroidery motifs that can be used on your clothes, home decor etc. These embroidered motifs are for the lazy embroiderer who wants a beautiful embroidered fabric but without much effort or time spend -like me. I scoured the net for some small motifs and that was the … Read more