Video Library of Hand-Embroidery Stitches - Index
Hand embroidery is easier if you have someone around to show you how to do it. You can certainly find just about any embroidery stitch illustrated in a book, but it's not quite the same as sitting down next to a friend who can walk you through the stitches. There are quite a few videos available on embroidery stitches, but what I've noticed about them is that they go into techniques that are either specialized or beyond what the beginning embroiderer wants to know. So I thought I'd see if I could manage a video stitch library...
...and if I could put it online! I've arranged the stitches according to type, and have begun with the most basic stitches, useful for embroidery for all levels of needleworkers.
If people like this concept, I'll continue to expand the library. So let me know what you think, if this helps you learn to stitch, or if you have any suggestions about what kinds of stitches you would like to see!
And, in case you're interested, here's an article about how I make the embroidery stitch video tutorials.
If you have problems playing the videos, please check out the Google Video Help Center on Solving Playback Issues. I find that the few people I hear from who have a problem viewing the videos solve the problems by looking through the list of FAQs on that page.
Here's the Video Library of Stitches Index:
Line Stitches & Bands
Chain, Fly, and Buttonhole Stitches
Detached Stitches & Knots
Filling Stitches
Miscellaneous Embroidery Techniques
Check back often! As the stitches are posted, the links will be added.
...and if I could put it online! I've arranged the stitches according to type, and have begun with the most basic stitches, useful for embroidery for all levels of needleworkers.
If people like this concept, I'll continue to expand the library. So let me know what you think, if this helps you learn to stitch, or if you have any suggestions about what kinds of stitches you would like to see!
And, in case you're interested, here's an article about how I make the embroidery stitch video tutorials.
If you have problems playing the videos, please check out the Google Video Help Center on Solving Playback Issues. I find that the few people I hear from who have a problem viewing the videos solve the problems by looking through the list of FAQs on that page.
Here's the Video Library of Stitches Index:
Line Stitches & Bands
- Running Stitch
- Whipped Running Stitch
- Backstitch
- Whipped Backstitch
- Stem Stitch
- Portuguese Knotted Stem Stitch
- Outline Stitch
- Couching
- Split Stitch
- Herringbone Stitch
- Double Herringbone Stitch
- Cretan Stitch
- Chevron Stitch
- Fern Stitch
- Palestrina Stitch
- Ladder Stitch
Chain, Fly, and Buttonhole Stitches
- Chain Stitch
- Heavy Chain Stitch
- Double Chain Stitch
- Raised Chain Stitch Band
- Alternating or Checkered Chain Stitch
- Cable Chain Stitch
- Rope Stitch
- Rosette Chain Stitch
- Wheat Stitch
- Fly Stitch - Horizontal
- Fly Stitch - Vertical
- Feather Stitch
- Double Feather Stitch
- Blanket Stitch / Buttonhole Stitch
- Buttonhole Wheels
Detached Stitches & Knots
- Lazy Daisy
- Seed Stitch
- Spider Web - Ribbed
- Bullion Knots
- French Knot
- Colonial Knot
- Oyster Stitch
- Drizzle Stitch
- Woven Picot
Filling Stitches
- Fishbone Stitch
- Cretan Stitch
- Detached Buttonhole Filling
- Satin Stitch
- Long and Short Stitch
- Lattice Work
- Bokhara Couching
- Roumanian Couching
Miscellaneous Embroidery Techniques
- Bullion Rose Bud Tutorial
A little over 13 minutes, this tutorial demonstrates how to make rose buds using the bullion knot. It also covers beginning and ending your threads when working small embroidery motifs.
Check back often! As the stitches are posted, the links will be added.
Labels: beginner embroidery, Hand embroidery stitches, video tutorials
Posted By: Mary Corbet on Sunday, October 22, 2006
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Yes please! I would love to see all of those. I have most of the most basic stitches down, but seeing them done could help improve my form...and were I a true beginner, a few short clips like the running stitch video would help get me started with more confidence.
This is a great idea- like the kntting stitch videos. I've recently decided to learn to embroider and I think this is very helpful for beginning neddlework.
wow, this is fantastic... I've watched the first two vids so far, and I can't wait to see the rest as they come up... :D I know it must take so much time and work to do this for us, it is greatly appreshiated.
I again, this is great help for not only the beginner stricther, and I feel this is very beneficial for the experienced stitcher (as reminders).
I love this idea! I would like to see the colonial knot! Oh and a finer thread in your video would be nice, not too thin but the stem stitch one was a little thick to see how it was going.
I LOVE THESE!! I'm a quilter and a cross stitcher so my hand work is pretty good, but I'm a visual learner and these videos are PERFECT and easy to understand. I'm going to try couching tonight! I'll check back often for more - you've been bookmarked! :-)
Thank you all so much for your enthusiasm! It's encouraging to know that people find these useful!
I enjoy doing them even more, knowing that people are using them!
I am amazed! The videos make everything so clear. Look forward to more! Thank you so much! Sue
These are so helpful to me! For some reason I have difficulty learning stitches from a book, but it's so easy when I see it done in video format. Thank you so much, and I do hope you'll add more!
Thank you so much for taking time to help a new stitcher! Your videos are fantastic. Please keep them coming.
Thanks a lot!!! I'm a beginer myself and understood them pretty well. Even if my mother tongue is not english, your instructions were easy to get =D
I'll be looking forward for more stitches
What a great service you are providing for those who don't have mother, grandmother or aunt to teach them the stitches. I can hardly wait until you get to the bullion knot. That's the one that just gives me fit, chenille needle notwithstanding. I need to see how the hands work together.
Oh, what a good idea!! I love it. Very clear, please, please, continue. You are very generous showing them.
Can I talk about your videos in my blog? I will put the link to your site. I know a lot of Spanish needleworker who visit my blog will enjoy with your explication.
Thanks again for all the enthusiasm! I plan to keep expanding the video library, so feel free to bookmark the site or add your email address to the feedreader. Your e-mail will only be used to send you the daily updates on this site. I'm so glad people find the videos useful - it makes it worthwhile to do them!
Mercedes, of course you may talk about the videos on your blog! I'm more than happy to have you spread the word about them - the more they can be helpful to others, the better!
Stay tuned for more videos this week, as well as a few book reviews and whatnot.
Thanks again, everyone!
simply great! please keep adding more , for a beginner like me they are really helpful
I'm not certain why you're only getting a monitor!! Try double-clicking on the play button. I generally have to click it two or three times to get it going, but the monitor isn't blank, either - usually the last frame of the stitch or the introductory frame is showing.
The website's had some tweaking in the last few weeks, so perhaps this is solved!
Thank you for such a helpful video library! It's just priceless for a beginner like me.
I was wondering if you'd consider including some stitching videos for cross stitch?
These videos are so wonderful. I could not, no matter what, get a French Knot down without seeing a video. Thank you!!!
I'm new to embrodiery and this site is so very helpful!! The piece that I'm going to start working on has a lot of long and short stitches in it. I was wondering if you will be posting that video soon. Once it is I will be able to start my project. Thanks so much for taking the time to do this!! I'm a visual learner and this is right up my alley!!
this is fantastic. you have saved me so much time in figuring out the instructions that just didn't make sense in my stitching book. thanks so much for this great service!
Thank you so much for these videos! As a truly beginner, I found it so hard to "get the hand" by only looking at the explanations in a book!!
Please, keep up with all those other lovely embroidery stiches :)
Thank you again from a very happy Stéphanie all the way from Paris France.
Thank you so much for building this website and providing these videos. They are so much better than any book I have read. I look forward to more videos. Thank you again.
I love your video stitch libaray, and have passed your link on to my friends. It's wonderful for those of us who are "visual" learners. Please add more stitches and some intermeidate and advanced stitches as well. Thank you so much for a great website!
...thank you so much for taking the time to do this. I have books but nothing is the same as seeing the stitches done. I would love to see long and short stitch, I get the first line ok but after that I'm lost.
Thank you again
Pip
Awesome. Tell u the truth cant make sense of stitching from only static pics.. video is the way to go.. PLS can u add a Ladder Stitch.. how its done.. im going nutz trying it.
thks
these are sooo great! exactly what I needed. thank you!!
oh boy! this is just what I have been looking for! thank you for creating this!!
xxxox
I am new to this and this was exactly waht I needed! Thanks!
wonderful job. i love it.
hats off to you.
Thank you for doing this. It is a great help. Siometimes just reading something in a book doesn't make it happen but seeing you actually doing the stitches step by step is wonderful. I have you in my favorites.
thanks again
Hi these stitches are really helpful. I'm really desperate to know how to do a bullion knot. Any idea when this will be posted. Thanks, Heather.
Hi, Heather - As soon as I have a chance to work up a decent video, I'll post one on the bullion knot! I've tried it about four times now, and haven't been satisfied with the outcome of the video.
Thanks for asking.
I'm so glad so many people find the videos helpful!
These videos are fantastic. I takes the hard work out of trying to make sense of book illustrations. Thanks
miss mary I'm very thankful for the video tutorial that you provide. i have been able to so stitches that i couldn't do with the how-to book. i would like to suggest if you could put up a video on Rosette Chain Stitch and Split Stitch. Thank you again.
Hi, Yamini - Rosette Chain Stitch is a good idea! I'll work on that! In the meantime, you can find my split stitch tutorial here.
Thanks!
These videos are very helpful and well done. If you take requests, I'm having trouble with Hardanger picot stitches and would love to see your technique.
Thanks
Hi Mam,I would like to see a video on long and short stitch.I would be much grateful.
Thanx
Amudha
Thanks so much for continuing to expand the video library. I've referred many a beginner to it, and used it myself. One of these days I hope to see the Oyster stitch up there, now that I think I've figured out the Colonial knot. =)
Yes!! I love the tutorials! You have made my day. Thank you
Thank you so, so much for doing this. You are extraordinarily generous of spirit for doing so! I am so glad that I found your site. I will be visiting again and again!
Thank you so much!!! This is beyond awesome!
Annie from Down Under
Around 10 years ago I tried to find embroidery information and was only able to find instructions on counted-cross stitch and the, then new, silk ribbon work. I was thrilled to find this site today.
These videos are utterly perfect!
Your site is wonderful and thank you so much. I could never get the hang of the Palestrina Stitch until I saw your video. Any chance you would be doing the Oyster Stitch? That one has me so confused!
Thanks again
FYI: I tried sending this page to my wife at her AOL e-mail account and was unable to because your URL has somehow ended up on an AOL block list. AOL said only the site owner could start the investigation that would lead to getting the site off the list. Here's there contact in info.
I finally ended up sending her the site at G-mail and she's enjoying it every much. :-D Thanks for all the great work you've done here.
I learned embroidery from my mom, and I taught my kids a little when they were small. Now my youngest is a Fashion Design major in college and just called me to ask for help with a design she is making of a faux-Renaissance dress with an embroidered bodice. I found your site and sent her the link. The videos are clear and the directions good. Thank you so much for putting this online - it's the next best thing to me being there with her at school!
your vidio tutorial is very useful pleas inclood more
Wonderful wonderful Idea! I have bookmarked your site and sent a link to your video library to everyone I know. Thank you.
Hi there!
What a GREAT site! The instructions are so clear!
I'm so glad I found your site, I'm going to practise those stitches soon!
Thanks!
Elaine
Mary, I miss seeing you on the HGTV board. I have started using your tutorials many times as I have taken up doing a Crazy Quilt block. Seeing me do this my 9 yo now wants to do the same. Guess where I've sat her? Here on your site to learn the basic stitches. This is a great learning tool you have made. Thanks ever so much again. PS...I always refer someone new here.
Mary,
God bless you!!!
Thank you so much! You helped me finally make a French knot! Now I can finish this baby quilt for my 1st granddaughter!
When I want to know how to embroider something, I'll go to your tutorials... extremely helpful!
Thanks again.... Lori
Mary,
This is a wonderful,helpful site. It makes learning the various embroidery stitches so easy - much easier than from a book. My craft group and I are very appreciative of all the work you have put into these instructions. I look forward to seeing the Long and Short stitch tutorial very much. Keep up the good work.
Jenny (Australia)
Oh, thank you, thank you, thank you!
thank u for the advice. i really needed that :-)
Thank you so much for providing these online tutorials. They are so helpful, so clear, so good! I am using them to learn the stitches so that I can get into embroidery as a hobby and can teach it to my granddaughters.
I come from a familly who were great embroiderers. Unfortunately, they didn't pass it on to any of us.I look at lots of sites, and without doubt your is the best.
If clear, easy to follow and it inspired ones to want to try it.
great work! Your ite will help to preserve this values art forever.
Yvonnev
I'm an avid knitter but haven't embroidered in about 14 years. Recently I decided to pick up the needle again and found your video by accident while searching for some advice on transferring images to my fabric. This is awesome! Thank you.
Great site.. Couldn't help to leave a comment about this site.. Really a good work.. Good videos to guide beginners... Put more patterns and suggestions about the stichings to be used. Once again.. Wonderful site!!!!!!!
Wonderful idea! It's been years since I've done embroidery, and I've just purchased a vintage dish towel to do. Your site will be a great help. Much easier to learn from seeing a stitch worked (compared to looking at a diagram). Thank you!
Mary, your site is WONDERFUL. I learned to embroider when I was a child but never understood the more difficult stitches. I would also be VERY interested in purchasing a DVD with all your stitch videos on it. Any chance of you producing one of those? Please, please???
Brenda
Thanks, Brenda - I would love to produce a series on DVD - perhaps in the future it will be a possibility. I'm afraid I'm (obviously) no professional when it comes to filming and editing!
I just wanted to jump onto this thread to thank everyone again for your kind comments. I'm still expanding the list - it just takes a little bit of time! I'm so happy that the videos are useful to so many people, and I'm looking forward to having time to edit a few that are waiting, and to produce a few more - I've got a list of 20 or more stitches that I want to do, and some overall techniques that I also think would be useful, especially for beginners.
Anyway, thank you again for the supportive comments - it makes it worth the effort, when I know the little videos are so helpful to so many, even if they aren't "perfect"!
MC
A great site - well above the "WOW factor." and Yes, please, I endorse the request for a video of stitches to purchase. What a clever idea and how clever you are too.
Thank you, thank you, thank you! I am definitely "direction-following challenged" and often resort to having my husband read the directions and show me what to do (which he loves, as you can guess....especially when it involves sewing...) So I am so thrilled to stumble upon your videos and I appreciate the time you put into them! I am going to watch them all and learn the stitches along with you!!! I finally will learn to embroider!!!
Thank you so much for all the work you've put into this! I love the videos, they're so helpful!
My day couldn't be any better. Very good video library. Thank you very much.
thank you SO much for all your work in putting together this extremely well done and informative site. i have sewing night every week at my home and will be telling everyone about this site. it will be so helpful to everyone. thanks again, patti
I have been trying to make French Knots for 40 years with no success...until today. Thank you!!
Thank you so much for this wonderful tutorial. I am starting over in learning how to embroider and do crewel work after being away from it for 25 years! I have purchased books but find them confusing at times. Seeing a demonstration is so much better. This is a terrific find for me and I am certain for many others!
Starting Over - and Everyone Else - I'm really very happy you like the videos! Thank you for the kind and encouraging comments. I'm getting the camera set-up out again this weekend, so I'll be updating the list again with a few new additions soon!
Thanks again!
MC
Wow! What a wonderful resource you have created here! I'm excited to have found you. I am going to put a link to your wonderful site on my blog so that others can find you. I do a lot of sewing and simple embroidery and a lot of the people who read my blog enjoy those things too--and I'm sure they will love to "discover" your site too!
HAve a wonderful day!
Smiles, Karen
Wow! What a wonderful resource you have created here! I'm excited to have found you. I am going to put a link to your wonderful site on my blog so that others can find you. I do a lot of sewing and simple embroidery and a lot of the people who read my blog enjoy those things too--and I'm sure they will love to "discover" your site too!
HAve a wonderful day!
Smiles, Karen
Thank you, Karen! I'm glad you like it!
When I watched the first video I almost cried. It has been years since I've embroidered and I need a brush up course. I bought a book that shows all kinds of stitches but here I sit without one project even started. You have given me the courage to take that first step. I thank you from the bottom of my heart. If your web site were a book I'm afraid it would be well worn from all the use.
Mary I cannot tell you how much the video library has helped this newbie to hand stitching. I come back hee often. And thank yu so much for being here with yur videos for all of us that need to know or refresh ourselves with certain stitches. Thanks for all you do.
This is the coolest thing ever. I decided to tackle embroidery this Christmas. You totally saved my life!!!
This is a cool site. I came across it by accident via a Google search for "buttonhole stitch tutorial" for sewing on some snap buttons. I'm a visual learner so the video was fabulous and very clear. I've bookmarked this page and hope to come back soon for some future embroidery projects! Thanks for the inspiration :)
Thank you so much for all the time and effort you put into these little videos. I have been wanting to embroider for years but didn't have a teacher. This is exactly what a visual learner like myself needs.
Thanks a lot for the wonderful videos. I got to your website while searching for something else and now I am hooked uo to embroidery.
The viseos are amazing.
Thank you so much for taking the time to share your expertise and knowledge, it shows that you have a gracious and kind heart. I am learning so much from your videos now I need to practise. Best Wishes from Scotland
I love these! thank you so much! this is going to help my a ton, I'm just starting to learn. So many of the books are just confusing and not helpful at all. this is exactly what I've been looking for.
You are truly appreciated. I am totally a beginner and have searched many sites and don't understand looking at simple instructions but your video explains it all. Thank you so much!
thanks you Mary for these videos.
Michèle (France)
Hi Mary, I cannot tell you how much I refer back to your wonderful videos for support and understanding in doing some of my stitches. Do you know anything about a stem stich rose. I am looking for some information on it and coming up with a blank, any ideas on what they are refering too.
Hi, Sharon -
My guess is that it's a ribbon embroidery stitch. You can find instructions for it at Camille's Place.
Hope that helps!
This has been very helpful, I have this site in my favorites!
These videos are awesome! I found this site looking for hardanger picots. The video on the oyster stitch was really great! I have tried to learn this (from a teacher no less) twice. Your video explained it really well.
Thanks!
JonniVA
Mrs. Corbet,
This is the very best instructional video that I have seen! I am so grateful for all your hard work and thoughtfulness. You have made it possible for someone like me to really enjoy and learn this beautiful art.
Once again, thank you so very much for making this available to us. It takes someone special and someone so giving. You are certainly very much appreciated.
Sylvia Angermeier
San Angelo, Tx
hi'it really helps me lot!!! thank you very much'. i can understand it well!!!
Great Info !
Wow, what a great resource! I am going to try making a set of "Days of the Week" dish towels for my mom for Christmas '08, but the iron-on pattern has zilch for embroidery instructions. You saved the day. Thanks so much & greetings from Nebraska! :)
WOW! Thank you soo much for taking the time to do this! It's incredibly helpful for a beginner like me.
It's wonderful to see them demonstrated. Much much easier than trying to decipher the stitches from a picture.
Thank you! I am a novice and your videos teach me so much more than the books I have bought. Thank you for your time and energy you have put into this project.
Cheers from South Africa,
Roberta
Hi
I was just wondering when you were going to post more tutorials mentioned in a previous message. Just anxious to try more stitches.
Nora
Hi, Nora!
I'd like to post some this weekend. I have the feathered chain ready for editing, as well as ceylon stitch and raised chain. But I'm swamped right now with other stuff, too! I promise I'll TRY to get one (or more) up this weekend and early next week. But if not, I'll make it as soon as I possibly can!!
Thanks!
MC
I see my comment from 11/24/06. Thought I'd drop in and tell you I still check videos, and I recommend this site to everyone who has a question about any stitch! Thanks for keeping it going. I like the new look (which has probably been up for a while!)
Thanks, Susan! I'm glad you like the "new" look!
May I please just also say Thank you thank you thank you thank you. Your work is very much appreciated!
DianaW
Wondered why my Colonial knots all looked came out differently, now I know why! I was doing them the wrong way. Thank you for showing me the right way. These videos are fantastic!!!
This is a wonderful web site!!! I haven't done embroidery in years and had forgotten sooo much. This is a great refresher!! Thanks, Sherrie
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