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Hand Embroidery Needles: How to Choose Them & Use Them
The blunt tip of the tapestry needle helps us avoid piercing the fabric threads while we stitch. Tapestry needles are also used for whipping or lacing embroidery stitches.
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NeedlenThread.com – Tips Tricks and Great Resources for Hand Embroidery
Welcome to the final installment of Twinkle, Twinkle, our Christmas ornament stitch-along for 2025! If you’re just joining in, you can find all the previous lessons – including materials lists and embroidery design – available here in the Twinkle, Twinkle project index.
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Tambour Embroidery How-to Video: The Basic Stitch
Practice until you can stitch in all directions with it. The more you practice, the more the stitch makes sense, and the easier it becomes to stitch in all directions. To get you started, then, I’ve worked up a how-to video for the basic chain stitch with the tambour hook. Before you start, make sure you set up your tambour hook correctly.
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Hand Embroidery Patterns Hand Embroidery Patterns Stylized Wheat Tile Fleur-de-lis Frame Rose Tile with Buds Christmas Tree for Tambour Work Bloomin' Branch Fair Verona Stylized Thistle Rose Rondelle Rose Swirl Snowflake Corner Cross
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Tips & Techniques – NeedlenThread.com
Tips & Techniques A list of all kinds of hand embroidery tutorials, tips, and techniques, including beginner tips for embroidery, tips on transferring embroidery patterns and designs, working with specific embroidery threads, tips on goldwork, on silk shading, on individual embroidery stitches.
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How To Embroider on Gingham – Chicken Scratch Tutorial
Today, a little tutorial for embroidery on gingham, or chicken scratch. Chicken scratch is suited to any level of embroiderer, but, due to its simple nature and pleasing results, it's an especially nice technique for beginners and even for children. You can make up your own patterns for gingh
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Embroidery Stitch Video Tutorial: Stem Stitch - NeedlenThread.com
Stem Stitch is my favorite hand embroidery stitch, because it is so versatile and so attractive. The poor stem stitch doesn't get the attention it is due, in my opinion - most folks tend to stitch lines today using backstitch, running stitch, and chain stitch, more than they do with stem stitch. But
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Stitch Fun: On the Edge with Palestrina Stitch
The whole idea of Stitch Fun is to explore some of the more obscures stitches or to explore more obscure – but fun! – ways of using common stitches. Today’s Stitch Fun is a more obscure way of using a fairly well-known stitch, the Palestrina stitch. Palestrina stitch is one of my all-time favorite embroidery stitches. It creates an interesting line with texture to it, thanks to the knots ...
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Stitch Tip: No-Knot Invisible Thread Start for Hand Embroidery
July 30, 2018 Stitch Tip: No-Knot Invisible Thread Start for Hand Embroidery Today, just a quick little stitch tip to start your week off – and hopefully to make your embroidery quicker and easier! Last week, we talked about the back of embroidery projects and I shared three tips to help you keep the back neat when it matters.
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Bead Embroidery Stitch Samples & Motifs - Books Review
Bead Embroidery Stitch Samples: Motifs is the same concept as the previous book, but instead of mostly line stitching, here you’ll find individual embroidered elements – from flowers to bugs to birds to people, items, and sundries – worked up with traditional embroidery stitches and beads. This book is a lot of fun!