This comprehensive guide to embroidery stitches contains all the embroiderer needs to know to work dozens of stitches, and includes full advice on everything from choosing materials, beginning and ending a thread and using hoops to working as a left-handed embroiderer and learning how to paint threads. Step-by-step photography and clear instructions make the techniques achievable for beginners as well as providing an invaluable reference guide for experienced embroiderers.4 welcome fabric beginning and ending thread transferring designs needles 8 Algerian Eye Stitch 9 Arrowhead stitch 9 Back stitch 10 Blanket stitch pinwheel double detached detached twisted long and short looped scallops 17 Braid stitch 18 Bullion knot rose with bullion centre Susan O'Connor rose rosebuds rose with padded satin centre bears bow detached chain combination 31 Buttonhole stitch 32 Cast-on stitch rose 34 Chain stitch twisted alternating whipped interlaced open rosette rose 40 Chinese knot 41 Colonial knot 42 Combination stitch apple blossom flower bud 44 Concertina rose 45 Coral stitch 46 Couching bow Bokhara lattice Roumanian trellis 51 Cretan stitch 52 Cross stitch long armed straight stitch combination 54 Crows foot 55 Cutwork embroidery 56 Danish knot 57 Detached chain flowers French knot combination flower blanket stitch combination 59 Detached wheatear stitch 60 Drizzle stitch flower 61 Ermine filling stitch 62 Eyelets flowers shaped 64 Faggoting 65 Feather stitch closed double and triple variations single Spanish knotted 70 Fishbone stitch raised 72 Fly stitch twisted leaf 74 Folded Ribbon rose rosebud 76 Four-legged knot stitch 77 French knot ribbon flower 79 Gathered rose 80 Ghiordes knot 81 Glove stitch 81 Grab stitch with ribbon bud 82 Granitos 82 Hem stitch antique serlC“
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