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kimmariesembroidery:
A good guide for picking out what stitch you want to use from pinterest.
Oh this is making me think of that anon who asked me about embroidery designing. I meant to come back and post a follow-up about this. Because at first I also felt like if I didn’t know which stitch to use I was Doing It Wrong, and after a while I realized that a lot of artists I liked a lot used basically one or two stitches for most things. I like to vary things, but if I’m just doing text, I often just use a backstitch because a continuous line is the most important consideration! Backstitch or split stitch. My stitches are nowhere near this nice or regular, though.
To find out how to do these, I think Sarah’s Hand Embroidery Tutorials are the clearest– or at least, the most comprehensive. I also own a print copy of The Embroidery Stitch Bible because someone gave it to me.
But it turns out there’s no minimum number of different stitches you have to do, and you can pick whatever you like.
kimmariesembroidery:
A good guide for picking out what stitch you want to use from pinterest.
Oh this is making me think of that anon who asked me about embroidery designing. I meant to come back and post a follow-up about this. Because at first I also felt like if I didn’t know which stitch to use I was Doing It Wrong, and after a while I realized that a lot of artists I liked a lot used basically one or two stitches for most things. I like to vary things, but if I’m just doing text, I often just use a backstitch because a continuous line is the most important consideration! Backstitch or split stitch. My stitches are nowhere near this nice or regular, though.
To find out how to do these, I think Sarah’s Hand Embroidery Tutorials are the clearest– or at least, the most comprehensive. I also own a print copy of The Embroidery Stitch Bible because someone gave it to me.
But it turns out there’s no minimum number of different stitches you have to do, and you can pick whatever you like.
