How to embroider letters by hand

Let your hand embroidery speak for you! Learn how to stitch letters in four decorative ways.

Find out 4 of the best embroidery stitches for script lettering. I'll tell you why each stitch works and why you want to use it.

Years ago, I wrote a series of articles on hand embroidered writing. The articles take you step-by-step through different embroidery stitches that work well for embroidered writing. Today, we’re going to add a stitch to that list – particularly, a stitch known today as the “Quaker Stitch” because it was formulated to work as the ...

Spread the loveThe Easiest Way to Hand Embroider Letters- a simple method that any beginner can do! Lately, I’ve been finding all these beautiful embroidery work on Pinterest. It inspired me to give it a try and make something for Indigo. I created a pattern using a fancy, elaborate cursive font and got to work...

Do you want to stitch handwriting and make it look neat? There is nothing simpler! :) There are many ways to work lettering in hand embroidery and I actually already prepared a post on this topic before: Hand embroidery lettering ideas I based that article mostly on the posts that I already had on the blog and I actually did mention the trick from today in passing there. But without the visual support of a picture it's likely that some might have missed that. And then I got questions about…

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Learn how to embroider letters with simple embroidery stitches Learn how to embroider Backstitch, Whipped Backstitch, Stem stitch, Chain stitch, Split stitch, and Running stitch. I also added the French knots as an extra stitch, as they are great for the dots and other punctuation you might need when stitching. Click to watch a video tutorial now or Pin for later.

5 tired and true tips for making embroidery lettering for beginners. We cover both block and script lettering.