Hand Embroidery Stitches for Everyone, 2nd Edition, is the ultimate stitch guide to embroidery, whatever your level of expertise is.
At 600 pages, this book is a definitive guide to different stitches for various needlework and crafting projects. It has a Picture Dictionary of 306 hand embroidery stitches, including cross-stitching and needlepoint stitches. The technique to each stitch is explained step-by-step with pictures that can be zoomed-in to see better and bigger. Each stitch comes with a small description along with information on the difficulty level, the uses, and alternate names.
All the stitches are neatly categorized into Stitch Families to make it easy for you to choose the best one for your projects. This eBook is interactive with a clickable picture dictionary and links for easy navigation.
If you are an absolute beginner, there are three entire sections to orient and prepare you for this art. You will find methods to handle needles, threads, fabric, hoops, and other tools, making it an ideal reference guide. This book also gives interesting information on traditional embroidery forms, and the origin and history of many stitches, which can inspire learners of all levels to explore more.
A section on helpful tips is a bonus and gives you information that will make your stitching experience better. What’s more? You don’t have to worry about how to practice all these stitches. Find a section on easy and printable patterns, making this the all-in-all eBook for hand embroidery.
The Hand Embroidery Stitch Book includes:
- • 306 hand embroidery stitches with step-by-step photographic illustrations
- • A categorized picture dictionary with 20 Stitch Families for easy selection
- • Helpful tips for better stitch experience
- • Good practices and common mistakes
- • All about hand embroidery tools and supplies
- • Drawing, tracing, and transferring patterns
- • Hooping the fabric, separating the floss, and threading the needle
- • Multiple methods for starting and finishing a stitch
- • Color wheel and guide for picking colors
- • Printable patterns, with stitch guides and ideas
- • Sample embroidery for each stitch family
- • History and maps of traditional embroidery styles
This book in numbers:
306 Stitches | 600 Pages | 2500 Photographs | 20 Stitch Families
Dear Sarah,
Will it be possible for my girls 8 and 12 to learn stiches from your books without any other training?
Hi Ampili,
Thank you for stopping by. Our eBooks are designed to make an absolute beginner feel comfortable with needlework. When, it comes to kids, I take a slightly different approach to introduce hand embroidery. If you can guide them through, my eBook ’12 Basic Hand Embroidery Stitches’ will be good to buy.
Check it out here: https://www.embroidery.rocksea.org/product/hand-embroidery-beginners/
If your girls are absolutely new to stitching, I recommend they have a one on one session with a trainer at least for a few months. This will help them find joy in stitching. Once the essentials and basics of hand embroidery are well grasped, they can take up a book.
In fact, I am running an online course for a few young learners in the US. It is conducted on Saturday mornings. The course is run through different modules using different fun projects. The youngest learner is 8 years old! If you are interested and would like to know more about it, please email to sarah@rocksea.org. ☺️
Here is a link to the course info: https://www.embroidery.rocksea.org/courses/kb1/
❤️ Sarah
Thank you for replying in so detail. I will see to it.🙂
Sarah, this e-book is amazing. I have followed you since you began, and you have incorporated everything so far, into this book. Your directions are clear and very understandable, as well as being visually lovely to look at. Thank you for all the work you’ve put into this over the years, and for making it available all in one place. Bahut, bahut dhaniyavaad!
Hi Ann,
Thank you so much for your lovely words! We are so happy that you liked our eBook. ❣️ I hope you enjoy learning and create inspired embroidery projects.
❤️ Sarah
Amazingly beautiful!
All the information, examples, illustrations are just perfect for any beginner or professional that wants to learn or refresh his knowledge.
I am so happy I got the e-book, anyone will feel automatically inspired to start an embroidery project right away and start stitching.
You are not going to stop reading and passing the pages! day dreaming of replicating Sarah’s embroidery or creating your own.
This e-book It’s truly a treasure! Thank you Sarah! Like I said in the beginning, it’s truly AMAZINGLY BEAUTIFUL!
Wow, Martiza! We are delighted to have these words from you! ❣️ We are so happy that our eBook has impressed you. Thank you for this lovely comment.
❤️ Sarah
Thank you for allowing previews of your E-Book. Now, I would really like to have one in print as I do most of my creative things away from a computer. Is is possible to have a printed version of this E-Book. Aside from myself, I’m sure there would be lots of people that would be interested I a printed version………. Thanks or your comments… and help with this……………..Sylvia
For Syliva; Just an idea for you concerning the e-book. I took an e-book file to a local print shop and had them print it out for me, then bought a binder and put the pages in, and tah-dah my very own hard copy. I too like to look at a book while working on my embroidery instead of the computer screen.
Good Idea! When working on my peacock, I spent a lot of back and forth time going to your tutorial for info. Thank you very much.
Thank you for your suggestion. Appreciate it! ❤️
I truly love the things you do. All your ideas and projects are spectacular!1 I do wish your e-book would come in hard cover. It would make a lovely gift for the crafters on my gift list.
Thank you, Marion. I wish we could do a hardcover too! 😀 It is a huge book and it might take a little for the hardcover to happen, if at all. The eBook is a handier version for a bulky book like this. 🙂
Received the ebook just now. It’s such a wonderful book,I don’t have words to describe. It has covered all the details needed for embroidery. It’s an asset for a beginner as well as an advanced embroider.
Thank you very much Sarah.
Thank you, Raji! We are so happy to know that you are liking our eBook. 🙂
Dear Sarah
I made the payment for your ebook, but forgot to mention my order number . It’s #16783. Hope you received the payment.
Raji Warrier.
Hi… I am from Malaysia. How am I to go about purchasing the book. I am so enthusiastic to embrace your skills and ideas. Please let me know. Thanks so much.
Hi Manimala,
Thank you for interest in our book!
Just click on the orange ‘BUY’ button in this page or, you can directly go to the purchase link here:
https://www.embroidery.rocksea.org/product/ebook/
-Sarah