Types of cross stitch stitches

An beginner's guide to cross stitch, from picking out materials to starting your your first project. Avoid common mistakes and learn a new craft!

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If you've never embroidered, have only just started, or only know a few of the stitch techniques, then you'll appreciate this Common and Traditional Embroidery Stitches Infographic. While there are dozens of embroidery stitches to learn, this downloadable chart features different types of embroidery stitches in pdf form. Save this chart and start working through these stitches or keep it handy for when you want to learn. Anyone who hand sews will want to memorize and learn the most common…

I love ombre. Whether it's on a dress, or on a wall, I just love the effect. And for a while now I've been mulling over the idea of creating an ombre embroidery sampler. (I should add here that Wordpress wants me to correct "ombre" to "hombre". I think that would be a very different piece…

A breakdown of the most common advanced and specialty stitches found in modern and traditional cross stitch patterns alike..

Embroidery stitches

Here is my post on cross stitch vs needlepoint. Both are great forms of hand embroidery and so fun to do.

26 ways to display your finished cross stitch. Try covered buttons, lampshades, bookmarks, frames, bracelets, mason jars and more!

From abstract art to nature scenes, we’ve rounded up the best modern cross stitch patterns that you can buy right now.

Learn the basics and get started with cross stitch with the Spruce Craft Co. beginner's guide.

check out this great collection of mini 3 inch and smaller cross stitch patterns. Browse the free tiny embroidery printable pdf charts to download

I love embroidery samplers. While the purpose of the sampler is to use a variety of stitches, the simple compositions always capture my imagination. Samplers aren’t fussy. They are all about…

Stitch tutorials, lessons, tips for better stitches and samplers for practice - everything in one free library.

This page gives you an idea of how the reverse of the basic stitches looks like. As a beginner, we are curious to know how the reverse or the back-side should end up - just to make sure that we are stitching the right way. So, I have picked the...

This is a few months old, but I just came across this roundup of helpful tips cross-stitchers should know from BuzzFeed, and it’s worth a read. The author suggests starting by buying a book (…

There are a lot of cross-stitch charts out there in the world, and if you look long and hard enough you can probably find something a lot like what you are looking for. But if you want to ma…