Braided embroidery stitch

Heavy chain stitch is similar to regular chain stitch, except it creates a wider, thicker band for those times when you want to make a bold statement.

The split stitch is a lovely outline stitch. It's raised a bit from the surface of the fabric, and it has a lovely, almost-braided look to it. It also forms a more continuous line - unlike the backstitch where you can see the individual stitches. Here's how to split stitch. See how easy it is?

Learn how to embroider Braided Chain Stitch (also known as Hungarian Chain Stitch) with this simple video tutorial from Paraffle!

Stitches are prevalent in peasant and ethnic embroidery where braids are used to edge garments and the chain stitches worked to fill complete designs.

How is everyone? Hope you're doing well! Today we're going to learn the last two stitches from this month. Braid stitch and Plaited braided stitch. As you may guess, they are related to each other. Basically, you can learn the braid stitch and then add one step to it and it will turn into the plaited one. The process of working the stitches is not really that hard. That is, as long as you understand how exactly the needle moves. So, I did my best to make the demonstration as detailed as…

Posts about chain braid stitch written by Elizabeth

I love ombre. Whether it’s on a dress, or on a wall, I just love the effect. And for a while now I’ve been mulling over the idea of creating an ombre embroidery sampler. (I should add h…

Learning all the embroidery stitches can be challenging and daunting. But let me tell you this: embroidery is super easy! Just think of it this way — it’s ju...