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Technology and Livelihood

Education
HANDICRAFT (NEEDLECRAFT) –
Module 3
Basic Embroidery Stitches
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Quarter 1 – LESSON 1 EMBROIDERY

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 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY

This Learning Module on Handicraft (Needlecraft) course is designed for a

Grade 9 student to develop the basic competencies in needlecraft. It covers
the major needlecraft techniques, namely:
(1) Embroidery (special lesson on Calado and Smocking),
(2) Crocheting,
(3) Knitting, and
(4) Quilting.

Each lesson is organized starting with a brief description of the needlecraft

technique; including a brief history as documented. Then, the tools and
materials are provided together with tips or factors to consider for beginners.
The bulk of each lesson contains the step-by-step procedure for stitches and
techniques aided with pictures to facilitate your learning. It then proceeds
to project planning as each lesson will require learners to create a product.
Along with the knowledge and skills that the learners will obtain from
needlecrafts, a concept review of the Personal Entrepreneurial Competencies
(PECs) and Environment and Market is also included. This review aims to
reinforce the development of entrepreneurial qualities and characteristics as
well as the learner’s positive work habits.
After taking all the learning sessions from this module, it is expected that
the learners will be able to plan and create articles from needlecraft. In
addition, learners will also be prepared to generate business ideas and
identify opportunities and evaluate these ideas according to the strengths,
opportunities, weaknesses and even threats. These competencies will
enable them not only to achieve personal confidence and appreciation in the
arts and their cultural importance but also to become economically
productive citizens of the society and country at large.
 INTRODUCTION

Technology and Livelihood Education (TLE) is one of the nomenclatures in

the implementation of the K to 12 Basic Education Program (BEP) composed
of four components, namely: Agri-Fishery Arts, Home Economics, Industrial
Arts and Information and Communication Technology. In this module, the
focus is on Home Economics course – Handicrafts (Needlecraft) Lesson 1
Embroidery
In this course, varied and relevant activities and opportunities are provided
to demonstrate your understanding of concepts and core competencies.
This will be also provide venue for you to assess yourself and identify
aspects of business that you need to strengthen and safeguard before you
become a part of the workforce.
Today, in the world of work, the number of available jobs is scarce and the
Department of Education is revitalizing its resources to lead the young
minds and to prepare them skillfully as future needlecraft expert. It is in
honing the skills that learners can be assured to have an edge of surviving
the daily needs of oneself and of others. It seeks to provide the learners with
the knowledge, attitude and skills in the field of Needlecraft.
This module is also crafted with a focus on the different activities that will
assess the skills and knowledge that learners are expected to demonstrate
after going through this learner’s materials. To evaluate students’ learning,
assessment instruments such as pre-test, posttest and other relevant
activities and exercises in each lesson are given. Read and answer the
suggested tasks and accomplish them to practice developing a sustainable
program, prioritizing needs and building a vision.
So, explore and experience the K to 12 TLE module and be a successful
needlecraft maker.
What I Need to Know
The primary purpose of Handicraft (Needlecraft) is to provide the learners
with the knowledge, skills and competence that will help them become a
successful needlecraft maker. Thus, this module will help the learners to
understand the basic requirements of Handicraft (Needlecraft) through this
lesson.

LO 2. Create embroidered products with package

2.1 Manipulate properly the tools and materials for embroidery
 What I Know

Matching Type
Directions: Match the descriptions in Column A to their correct names as
listed Column B. Write the letter of the correct answer in your answer sheet.
Column A Column B

_____1. This tool is used for

trimming scallops, A. Fabric
clipping threads, or cutting large
eyelets B. Pencil
_____2. It is selected according to
the purpose C. Ironing
and the design to be used usually
varies from D. Scissors
very soft to very coarse or heavy.
_____3. It is the device used to keep E. Embroider frame
the fabric
heavy stretched while F. Embroidery threads
_____4. This material can be bought
either
in skeins, balls or spool.
_____5. It is commonly used for
placement
of fine lines on fabric. Many of them
have an
eraser or brush and some are water
soluble
so that the marks can be removed
from the fabric.
 LESSON 1: Embroidery

OVERVIEW

Embroidery is the handicraft of decorating fabric or other

materials with needle and thread or yarn. It is available with a
wide variety of thread or yarn color. An interesting characteristic
of embroidery is that the basic techniques or stitches on
surviving examples of the earliest embroidery—chain stitch,
buttonhole or blanket stitch, running stitch, satin stitch, cross
stitch—remain the fundamental techniques of hand embroidery
today. It can be a profitable business or additional means of
augmenting income. You can also work from home with minimal
start-up costs.
This lesson covers the learning competencies aiming to develop
and enhance the skill, knowledge and attitude of learners
towards drafting project plans, making of embroidered articles
with package accompanied by project plan.

What’s In
Based on the objectives of the lesson and result of the
preassessment the learners will define their personal goal and
target to be achieved at the end of this module. A self-assessment
to given at the end of the lesson wherein it will assess the
understanding and knowledge of the learner about the module.
 What’s New

The first lesson will let the learners

1. Discuss the basic embroidery stitches
2. Explain the basic embroidery stitches
3. Perform the basic stitches in embroidery
 LEARNING OUTCOME 2: CREATE
EMBROIDERED ARTICLES

BASIC EMBROIDERY STITCHES

1. RUNNING STITCH
One of the most basic stitches, and is usually the first stitch learned
by the beginner embroidery or sewing enthusiast. This stitch can be
worked in straight or curved lines, or for assembly when finishing an
embroidery project. Variations of the embroidery version of this stitch
include the whipped running stitch, laced running stitch, as well as a
few dozen others. Running stitch is also the basic stitch used for
darning stitches, with the straight stitches arranged in patterned row.

To work the Running Stitch:

1. Bring your needle up through the
fabric from the back (or wrong
side,whichever lingo you prefer) until
the knot hits the fabric.
2. Then bring the thread back up and
until the task is completed.

2. BACK STITCH
This stitch most often used to outline a design. This stitch also forms the
base line for other embroidery stitches.
To work the Back Stitch:
1. Start your back stitch as you would any other line
stitch. Start the second stitch on the other side of
your stitch.
2. Start the third stitch at the end of the second
stitch.
3. Make sure all your stitches are the same length.

3. COUCHING
Stitch considered especially useful for outlining or giving more weight to
a single stitch line. Usually two working yarns are used: the laid yarn and
couching yarn. The yarn which is stitched over another yarn – the laid yarn
– to attached it to the fabric is called couching yarn.
To work the Couching:
1. Put a thread on the line of the design.
2. Stitch over using another thread, keeping the
first thread in place by using a small stitches on the
fabric.
3. The second stitch can be of constrasting color to
the laid thread if desired.
4. CROSS STITCH
Stitch formed by two-crossing arms and may be used for outlining, as
borders or to fill an entire area.
To work the Cross Stitch:
1. Complete one half of the cross at a time, first
from lower right to top left and back under the
fabric to the lower left, and so on to the end of the
line (A).
2. Complete the other half of the cross (B).
3. Make sure the upper half of each stitch lies in
the same direction.
5. TENT STITCH
It is also called as the “Continental Stitch”. One of the most often used in
basic needlepoint stitches. This is usually done on single thread canvass.
To work the Tent or Continental Stitch:
1. Work left to right bringing thread out at top of
first stitch, insert needle diagonally down over
crossed threads to bottom of stitch. Bring out to
the right of the first stitch. Continue this way to
the end of the row.
2. The second row is worked from right to left
inserting the needle at top of the stitch.
3. Continue working rows backwards and
forwards until the area is filled making sure all
stitches slope in the same direction . The stitch
can also be worked horizontally or diagonally.
6. FRENCH KNOT
A single detached stitch used primarily to fill in a design area. It is
popular stitch among embroiderers because it can be used to create the eyes
on an embroidered face or the center of the flower.
To work the French Knot:
1. Insert the needle at the wrong side.
2. Holding the thread taut with left thumb,
wind the thread twice or several times
around the needle.
3. Hold the thread in place with your
thumb then pull the needle and insert it
close to the point it came through.
4. Insert the needle to the point where the
next French knot is to be placed.
7. HOLBEIN STITCH
It is also called double running stitch often used to outline blackwork
embroidery. This stitch was first known as the “Italian Stitch”. It became
known as the “Holbein Stitch” after Hans Holbein the Younger, a 16th-
century portrait painter best known for his paintings of Henry VIII and his
children, almost all of whom are depicted wearing clothing decorated with
blackwork embroidery.
To work the Holbein Stitch:
1. Work a row of running stitches, leaving the
same number of threads between the stitches as
stitch length
2. Work back with another row of running
stitches filling in the gaps left on the first row
8. HERRINGBONE STITCH
It is basic overlapping stitch popular in border making.
To work the Herringbone stitch:
1. Bring needle out on lower line. Insert on top
edge a little to the right and take a small stitch
backwards along top edge.
2. Insert on lower edge a little to the right and
take another small stitch to the left. The fabric
lifted by the needle and the space between the
stitches should be the same to achieve best effect.
3. Continue in this way until it was completed.

9. FISH BONE STITCH

This is a kind of filling stitch which is ideal for making leaves or feather.
In a broader sense, it is regarded as a member of the satin stitch family.
To work the Fish Bone Stitch:
1. Bring the needle out at the top of the shape (1) and
make a small straight stitch
2. Continue down the shape, bringing the needle out at
the edge (2 and 3) and down at the right or left of the
center.
10. BLANKET and BUTTONHOLE STITCHES
The blanket stitch is a basic, popular embroidery stitch that can be used
to create an edging, used as a surface embroidery stitch, or to stitch
elements in place on an embroidery project, while buttonhole stitch are
mostly used for cutwork embroidery.
These stitches are done in the same manner. Their difference lies in the
distance between stitches. Buttonhole stitches have less space between
them as compared to blanket stitches.
To work the blanket stitch:
1. Pull the needle through to make an l-shaped half
loop with the embroidery thread. Continue working
the stitch, spacing them a short distance apart at
regular intervals.
2. Bring the needle up from the lower left edge and
insert your needle through the embroidery fabric at
the top of the location of the first stitch.
 3. Bring the tip of the needle through the fabric a
short distance below the entry point, making a
vertical stitch. If working along a marked line, the
needle tip is brought through the fabric to the right
side. If it is worked along an edge, the needle tip
extends beyond the edge of the fabric.
11. ROUMANIAN STITCH
A couching stitch which has only one working yarn. This means that
the yarn used as the laid yarn is also the yarn used for couching.
To work the Roumanian Stitch:
1. Bring the thread through at top left of the
space.
2. Carry the thread across and lift a stitch on
the right side of the space.
3. Thread below the needle (A). Take a stitch
at the left side, thread above the needle (B).
4. These two movement are worked until
space is filled. Keep stitches close together.
12. CHEVRON STITCH
It is a wider form of backstitch ideal for decorative borders and bands.
To work the Chevron:
1. Holding the needle downward, put the thread
through the lower line of the design.
2. Insert the needle a little to the right on the
same line and take a small stitch to the left
emerging halfway between the stitch being made.
3. Insert the needle on the upper line a little to the
right and take a small stitch a little to the left.
4. Insert the needle again on the same line a little
to the right and take a small stitch to the left
emerging at center.
5. Continue doing this stitch alternately on the
upper and lower lines.
13. SATIN STITCHES
A solid filling stitch that is used to cover a design area with long,
straight stitches worked very close together.
To work the Satin Stitches:
1. Apply straight stitches across the design
perpendicular to the lines which form the shape.
2. Chain stitch or running stitch may be used as
padding underneath to give a raised effect.
3. Keep the edge even and follow the contour of
the shape. Avoid making too long stitches
14. SPLIT STITCH
A loose stitch catching only a thread or two of fabric. It is designed to be
invisible from the right side. It is a stitch for securing hems.
 To work the Split Stitch:
1. Start your split stitch by coming up through the
middle of your first stitch, splitting it in half.
2. Make the rest of your stitches the same length as
your first to get a nice, even line.
3. Start your stitches in the middle of the stitch before.
Use the end of the stitch two stitches before as a guide.
15. STEM STITCH
Basically an outline stitch, this stitch is often used for the stems in
floral designs.
To work the Stem Stitch:
1. Start your split stitch by coming up through
the middle of your first stitch, splitting it in half.
2. Make the rest of your stitches the same
length as your first to get a nice, even line.
3. Start your stitches in the middle of the stitch
before. Use the end of the stitch two stitches
before as a guide.
16. LAZY DAISY CHAIN STITCH
It is also called as Detached Chain Stitch. This stitch is worked in a
circle to resemble the petals of a flower.
To work the Daisy Stitch:
1. The first stitch of your chain stitch is a loop. It
should start and stop in the same place.
2. Fasten each loop at the bottom (as presented in
the diagram) with a small stitch. This stitch can be
worked singly or in groups to form flower petals.
17. HEMSTITCH
Italian hemstitching is a kind of counted thread embroidery. It is a
stitch used to draw out parallel threads and stitch the exposed threads in
groups to form various designs. Hemstitching done along both sides of the
drawn threads is also called ladder hemstitch or double hemstitching.
To work the Hem Stitch:
1. Draw out the threads from the fabric. Fasten the
thread near the drawn threads at the right side.
2. Pass the needle behind four loose threads. The
number of threads taken together may vary
depending on the kind of fabric used.
3. Pass the needle behind the same four threads, this
time bringing the point of the needle through the
fabric which is ready for the next stitch. (At this
point, the folded hem of the article should now be
turned to the drawn threads and secured with the
 stitch.)

18. FLY STITCH

A single stitch with a loop that is similar to that of the feather stitch.
This stitch can be used for borders or to fill in a design area. This stitch can
be worked singly or in vertical or horizontal rows.
To work the Fly Stitch:
1. Bring the needle out at top left. Hold the thread
down with the left thumb.
2. Insert to the right on the same level a small
distance from where it emerged and take a small
stitch downwards to center.
3. With the thread under the needle, pull through
and insert the needle again below at the center
and emerge in position for the next stitch.
19. PEKINESE STITCH
It is also known as the Chinese stitch. This stitch has back stitches as a
base. Several Pekinese stitches can be used to outline or fill in a design area.
To work the Pekinese Stitch:
1. Make a row of back stitches.
2. Interlace the row with a thread of either
the same tone or different color. When
working, pull on the loops slightly but strive
to create an even finish throughout the row.
20. FEATHER STITCH
A stitch with a loop and stitches and stitches evenly worked on both left
and right sides of a design area.
To work the Feather Stitch:
1. Pull the needle out of the center while doing
holding the thread down with the left thumb.
2. Insert the needle a little to the right at the
same level and take a small stitch down to the
center. Make sure to keep the thread under
the needle point.
3. Insert the needle a little to the left on the
same level and take stitch to the center. Again,
keeping the thread under the needle point.
4. Work these two movements alternately.
21. BULLION STITCH/BULLION KNOT
This stitch is a single, detached stitch that is used for filling in a design
area. Rows of bullion stitches may also be used to outline a design. It is
recommended that one uses a needle with a small eye for ease in pulling.
To work the Bullion stitch:
1. Bring needle out at top of length required for knot
and make a backstitch to bottom of length required.
 2. Bring needle only partly out at original point. Twist
thread loosely round the top of the needle, 6 or 8
times or enough to make the right length of stitch.
3. Hold carefully with left thumb while pulling needle
through.
4. Turn needle ready to insert at bottom of stitch, pull
the needle tight and pass needle through to back.
22. ROSETTE CHAIN STITCH
A chain stitch that is popularly used for making decorative borders. Its
name derives from the resemblance of a rose bud. It is worked from right to
left between double lines of a design area. In a row, rosette chain stitches
are worked close together.
To work the Rosette Chain Stitch:
1. Insert the needle through at the right end of
the upper line, then pass the thread across to
the left side while holding down with the left
thumb.
2. Bring the needle into the upper line a short
distance from where the thread emerges and
bring it out just above bottom line.
3. Pass the thread around under the needle
point, draw needle through the loop and then
pass under the top thread avoiding picking up
any fabric.
23. TWISTED CHAIN STITCH
A Chain stitch which is used to create an unusual outline.
To work the Twisted Chain Stitch:
1. Start with chain stitch, but instead of inserting
the needle into the place from where it emerged,
insert close to the last loop.
2. Use a slanting stitch as you go out of the
design’s line as you pull the thread through. For a
better effect, keep the loops of this stitch close
together.
24. CORAL STITCH
A simple outline stitch marked by knots along a stitch line. This is
used particularly for making stems and twigs. Several rows of coral stitches
can likewise be used to fill in a design area, producing a remarkably
different texture.
To work the Coral Stitch:
1. Insert the needle from the wrong side and pull
the thread up to the right end of the line.
2. Hold the thread on the design lines with the left
thumb.
3. Stitch under the line and thread and pull
 through bringing the needle over the lower thread.
What is It

The teacher will help and guide the students to understand and
meet the set of objectives of the module.
1. Learners will able to recognize the importance of knowing the different
kinds of embroidery stitches
2. Learners will able to know and practice the proper procedure of basic
stitches in embroidery

What I Have Learned

1. Knowing the Basic embroidery stitches

2. Practice/Performed the proper procedure of basic stitches in
embroidery
 What I Can Do

ACTUAL PERFORMANCE on BASIC STITCHES OF EMBROIDERY

FOLLOWING ITS PROPER PROCEDURE
(Please see attached rubrics for performance)

Embroidery Stitches
Rubrics
 Assessment

1. CROSSWORD PUZZLE
Name:_________________ Date: _______________
Year and Section:__________ Rating: ________________
Direction: Answer the crossword puzzle using the hint for horizontal and
vertical direction.

Hint: HORIZONTAL Hint: VERTICAL

1. It is regarded as a member 6. It is a solid filling stitch worked very

of satin stitch family ideal for close together.___stitch
making leaves or feather. ____stitch
2. It is wider form of back stitch ideal 7. It is a chain stitch popularly used for
for decorative borders. _____stitch making decorative borders. It derived its
name from its resemblance to a rose
bud.___chain stitch
3. It is a loose stitch designed to 8. It is also called as double running
be invisible from the right side stitch.___stitch
usually used for sewing hems.___stitch

4. An outline stitch often used for

the stems in floral designs. ___stitch
5. It also called the continental
stitch. ___stitch

2. “Call-out”
Name: __________________________ Date: ________________________

Year and Section: _______________ Rating: ________________________

Direction: Choose at least five embroidery stitches. Write each stitch inside the call out.
Then make a brief description or code that would help you to remember each stitch.
Example: Lazy Daisy Chain Stitch: Circle in shape. Flowers petal look alike.
 Additional Activities

Practice and study the basic embroidery stitches

Answer Key

LESSON 1 Assessment
Pre-Test Crosswords Horizontal
Matching Type 1. Fishbone
1. D 2. Chevron
2. A 3. Split
3. E 4. Stem
4. F 5. Tent
5. B
Vertical
6. Satin
7. Rosette
8. Holbein
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