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7 days of stitches: straight stitch

Advertisement Coming to the last days of the 7 days of embroidery stitches with the: Straight stitch. Straight stitches are THE stitch. It's like a line you draw with a...

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7 days of stitches: couching

Advertisement On to the 6th day with: couching! Couching is one of the techniques that get overlooked easily. For couching a surface material is attached to the fabric with a...

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7 days of stitches: fly stitch

Advertisement It's already day 5 - time is flying by.... which leads me to the next stitch: the FLY STITCH. This embroidery stitch can be used as a detached stitch...

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7 days of stitches: cross stitch

Advertisement It's time for the 4th part of the 7 days of stitches series introducing the stitch with the 4 corners *drum roll*: the CROSS STITCH. I mean, this stitch...

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7 days of stitches: needle weaving

Advertisement 3 day of the 7 days of stitches features a stitch that is experiencing a revival during the last years: NEEDLE WEAVING. Being a cross over between embroidery and...

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7 days of stitches: feather stitch

Advertisement Day 2 of the 7 days of stitches has arrived and it's all about the FEATHER STITCH. This stitch has a long tradition in plant embroidery. It's so easy...

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7 days of stitches: blanket stitch

Advertisement Let's start off the series with the BLANKET STITCH. This embroidery stitch is often used for hemming blanket edges. Maybe you have/had a baby blanket that was hemmed this...

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7 days of embroidery stitches part 2: 7 basic stitches you need to learn

7 days of embroidery stitches part 2

Hello, fellow embroidery enthusiast! This week is all about embroidery stitches. Each day I'll show you how to make a particular stitch for you...

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7 days of stitches and the labyrinth challenge!

Remember the 7 days of stitches blog series? Every day for an entire week, I showed you one embroidery stitch in detail - how it is done, what you...

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7 days of stitches: herringbone stitch

Contains Advertisement The herringbone stitch is a crossed stitch. It's commonly used to fill areas with a low amount of waste yarn in the back.

Here is how it's done

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7 days of stitches: satin stitch

Satin stitch is widely used as a fill stitch. The name comes from the smooth surface similar to the surface of the fabric called satin. The satin stitch consists of...

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7 days of stitches: the french knot

French knots are part of the knotted stitches family and often used to accentuate parts of embroidery. They form a very textured surface if clouded together but look...

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7 days of stitches: stem stitch

On to stitch 3 of the 7 days of stitches series: the STEM STITCH. Stem stitch is an elegant line stitch that resembles a rope. The slanting segments make this stitch...

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7 days of stitches: chain stitch

Number 3 in this series of 7 basic embroidery stitches is the CHAIN STITCH. This stitch can be used as a line stitch or to fill whole areas with embroidery....

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7 days of stitches: back stitch

It's day 2 of the 7 days of stitches and it's going to be a back and forth. Yeah, I know, bad joke. Of course it's about the BACK STITCH. Back...

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7 days of stitches: running stitch

Let's start with the first of basic stitches for this week! The RUNNING STITCH probably is the most simple and basic embroidery stitch. Yet you can achieve the most intriguing...

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7 days of stitches: 7 basic embroidery stitches you need to learn

When I first started embroidery I wanted to try it all out. There were so many stitches to learn and soon I found myself in a situation where it was...