Hand embroidered alphabets

What stitches should you use when hand embroidering letters? In this blog and video tutorial I go over using back stitch, split stitch, stem stitch, chain stitch, couching and satin stitch.

For hundreds of years, if you were a European or American girl, chances are fairly…

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The Letter Nest is a collection of watercolor Alphabet Art by New York City-based artist Sally King McBride. Comprising 13 themed alphabets ranging from Animals to Flowers, Woodland to Nautical, NYC to Paris, The Letter Nest offers a delightful, educational, and fine-art approach to letter and image.

If you want to add a personal touch to your projects, learning how to embroider letters is a great skill to have. This tutorial covers 4 simple stitches.

Next week the members of my Stitchery Club will receive their March patterns, but this month it's a little different than usual because it's one extra large pattern with a couple of smalls that compliment it... If you look closely you can see that the individual sampler monograms are mostly sewn with backstitch, with scattered touches of lazy daisy, satin, French knots and running stitch... There's really no exact way to stitch the letters of this alphabet because if you don't like lazy…

I am so excited to show this project off to you today! This darling sampler has been on my To-Do list for.ev.er. I had purchased the pattern ages ago – it’s from the super talented Alicia Paulson. Other fun things kept getting in the way though and I sort of forgot about it. I came ... Read More about Alphabet Embroidery Sampler

Isn't this lovely? I just purchased Alicia's pattern for this from Rosy Little Things (still one of the best shop names ever). She's done this in crewel... and I have zero experience with crewel. Is it easier than traditional floss...