A French knot is fancy and elegant. It can add just the right touch to a piece of embroidery and making perfect French knots is an important embroidery accomplishment. It is worth taking the time to practice, and once you get it, it is not hard.
Straight stitch is a simple, basic stitch. It looks simple and might be the easiest embroidery stitch of all. Because of this, it is sometimes overlooked, but you can have fun using it in your embroidery projects.
Adding couching to embroidery is like wearing an infinity scarf. It tends to be a focal point and draws attention to itself. It is easier to do if you happen to have a third hand, but even with two, don’t shy away from it. Couching is basically stitching a thread onto the surface of the…
Stem stitch is a common embroidery stitch that can be used for far more than stems. This embroidery stitch is useful anytime you want to stitch a line.
If you want any words in your design, you are going to need lettering. This is the one time you will probably want marking. You can just go for it, but marking will help with spacing and balance. It is great to use your own handwriting, but if you prefer something else, it is pretty…
This quilt – Feathers and Pinwheels was primarily a practice quilt. I can see that practice is taking my free motion quilting to the next level. In this quilt, I really wanted to practice different shapes of feathers.