Sarah's Hand Embroidery Tutorials

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Plucked Knot

Plucked Knot is also known as Susan’s Knot, Baby Bullion Stitch [EN] About the Plucked Knot The Plucked Knot could be a stitcher’s best friend. I learned this knot from my mother who used to end her stitching with such a knot. The only thing was that at times that...

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Hair in Breeze

Embroidery Pattern: Hair in Breeze. You will learn 3 Stitches At a Time – Split Stitch, Raised Chain Stitch, Cable Stitch. A gentle breeze makes you feel beautiful. This pattern is inspired by that feeling of when the breeze goes through your hair. You will see that a couple of...

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Berries

Embroidery Pattern: Berries. You will learn 3 Stitches At a Time – Back Stitch, Leaf Stitch, French Knots. This beautiful and elegant berry pattern can be tempting to stitch and used over table cloths and napkins. It can be easily drawn by hand and stitched within a day. This pattern...

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Pearl Knot Stitch

This stitch is a very simple stitch worked from right to left. Make these stitches close enough to see it look like like a string of pearls, which explains the name. I will be working over a single stitch line. Fig 1: Begin by bringing out the needle at the...

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Colonial Knot

Colonial Knot is also known as Figure 8 Knot [EN], Nudo Colonial [ES], Noeud Colonial [FR], Kolonialknotenstich [DE],  Punto Coloniale [IT], Ponto Nó Colonial [PT]. About the Colonial Knot The Colonial Knot looks pretty much like the French Knot but has a higher profile, which means, it looks more prominent....

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Pistil Stitch

Pistil Stitch is also known as Long French Knot [EN], Puntada de Pistilo [ES], Point de Pistil [FR], Stielstich [DE],  Punto Pistillo [IT], Ponto Pistilo [PT]. About Pistil Stitch This is a decorative stitch. We can also say it is a motif stitch that can be used to make flower...

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Bluework Lessons

Bluework This page is just to give a feel on how Bluework will look like. Bluework and Redwork share the same history. Only that, Bluework came as a successor to Redwork when a new colorfast blue thread was available in the market. Later, a lot many other colors came into...

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Redwork Lessons

In this tutorial, the step by step process on how I went about finishing this design is mentioned. You may click on the stitch name to go to the lessons of those stitches. I have used Anchor thread number 47. I have traced the design to a white cotton fabric...

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French Knot

French Knot is also known as Punto de Nudo Francés [ES], Point de Noeud [FR], Knötchenstich [DE], Punto Nodini [IT], Ponto de Nó Francés[PT], Franska Knutar [SV]. About the French Knot The French knot is one of the easiest of all knots. Interestingly, however, it is often hailed as one...

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Knots Family

About the Knot Stitch Family Knotted stitches are either stand-alone like French Knots and Colonial Knots or follow a series to make a line, like the Coral Stitch. A few of them can be used for filling of motifs, or they can be used as motifs in themselves! For instance,...