Hand embroidery lettering

Let your hand embroidery speak for you! Learn how to stitch letters in four decorative ways.

If you’re a hand embroiderer, a quilter, a textile artist, or a crafter, you’ve probably run into situations where you could add words, text, and lettering to your projects. Hand embroidery is an excellent way to personalize gifts, household objects, momentos, quilts, journal covers – just about anything! Writing with your needle and thread can ...

One of the best parts about embroidery is the ability to personalise your stitching with words. Adding names, initials or messages can turn your work into something that is, even more, special and meaningful. Especially if you are giving it as a gift! Read this blog to learn how to add embroidered words to patterns.

Find out 4 of the best embroidery stitches for script lettering. I'll tell you why each stitch works and why you want to use it.

Here are some ideas on how to work quotes and monograms in hand embroidery! I don't embroider quotes and phrases that often but there are some universal tips that you can use for that *wink wink*. Handwriting style Handwriting can be elegant, sometimes quirky and at times sharp and rash. But either way, you will most probably need to work a fine line and your stitch should flexible enough to be able to bend in tight curves. So, from the family of line stitches, I would recommend stem stitch…

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.

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Learn how to embroider letters with my easy tutorial. I'll show you two of my favorite ways to embroider script fonts for two beautiful looks!

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 ...