Make Your Embroidery Pop With Creative Stitch Play

Ever wonder how I take the most basic stitches—like Straight stitch, Chain stitch, Buttonhole, Herringbone, Cretan, or Chevron stitch—and make them look completely different? I’ve spent years exploring how far a “simple” stitch can go and I share it in this class. Big news—I’ll be one of the instructors at …

TAST Week 3

For Take a Stitch Tuesday Week 3, I am suggesting you learn and experiment with Stem Stitch. Stem Stitch is a basic quick and easy linear stitch, which I, personally, think is one of the most useful stitches there are. You can use this stitch to outline just about anything, and …

TAST Week 2

For Take a Stitch Tuesday Week 2 the basic stitch is back stitch. This stitch is one of the core stitches in embroidery as it is a very useful linear stitch. It is an easy stitch to master and quick to learn. Visit the tutorial for Back Stitch for instructions …

TAST Week 1

Happy New Year! And welcome everyone, to Take a Stitch Tuesday, or TAST week 1. I hope you are all energised and up for this year’s challenge. I know I am looking forward to seeing what everyone does this year. Before we start, please check out Why Wobbly stitches are …