Hand embroidery stitches for lettering

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

5 tired and true tips for making embroidery lettering for beginners. We cover both block and script lettering.

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.

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 ...

What stitches do you use for embroidering letters by hand? How to do script fonts and initials? Get started with letter embroidery!

This is a tutorial for how to hand embroider letters. In this tutorial you will learn 4 easy stitches to make perfect hand embroidery lettering. This is a beginner friendly hand embroidery letter tutorial that is step by step with pictures. How to hand embroidery letters Explore my embroidery design collection and tutorials. Click now to get inspired and start stitching! #EmbroideryForBeginners #EasyEmbroideryDesigns #HandEmbroideryTutorials #MachineEmbroidery #EmbroideryPatterns…

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…

Learn different ways to start and end your embroidery stitches without using knots. I show you various methods for different stitches!

Do you want to stitch handwriting and make it look neat? There is nothing simpler! :) There are many ways to work lettering in hand embroidery and I actually already prepared a post on this topic before: Hand embroidery lettering ideas I based that article mostly on the posts that I already had on the blog and I actually did mention the trick from today in passing there. But without the visual support of a picture it's likely that some might have missed that. And then I got questions about…

The 7 best fill stitches for thick embroidery letters. Learn which stitch add smooth textures and which stitch add extra character.