Crewel stitches

I promised to show you this, my crewel embroidery piece 'Tree of Life' started and completed in the mid 1970's. I recall it took me perhaps a couple of years, picking it up now and then between family and work commitments when we lived in Massachusetts. I bought it as a kit - complete with the skeins of wools in beautiful colors, printed Belgian linen, and stitch instructions - offered by one of the most admired American stitchery women ever, the late Elsa Williams. After a lengthy search…

Burden stitch is a lovely stitch for filling areas of your embroidery. It creates a good texture and can be stitched in different ways to mix this up.

The last time we visited Party in Provence, an embroidered kaleidoscope project that we’re working through step-by-step here on Needle ‘n Thread, we worked the big petals in the center of the design and the little flowers between them. Originally, I was going to start the week with some beadwork on Party in Provence, but ...

Ah, Embroidery Project Rotation! It can drive you nuts or keep you sane, depending on how you look at it! These days, I have several embroidery projects going, and I work them in a kind of rotation schedule. I showed you earlier this year how I organize multiple embroidery projects at once. And a

Some crewel embroidery stitches are easy, and some are complex. The basic embroidery stitches are used in many other embroidery methods.

Chain stitch is a must-have in your embroidery vocabulary! These valuable tips will show you the way to work curves and corners, join the ends and save the thread as you chain stitch.

Create a delicate pink rose embroidery pattern! This 47-page PDF guide teaches you to stitch a beautiful letter C. Includes step-by-step instructions, photos, and video tutorial. Perfect for beginners! #embroidery #embroiderypattern #pdfpattern #roseembroidery #letterC #handmade #DIY #crossstitch #needlework

Braid stitch is used to make borders, flowers, etc. In this tutorial we will demonstrate in a simple way how to make this stitch.----------------------------...

I ❤ embroidery . . . SharonB of PinTangle blog continually showers us with new stitches & variations that beg us to try them on our embroidery and crazy-quilt projects. Here are just four recent beauties. Get the details and see more photos from Sharon’s linked posts. (1) a combination of cable chain & wheatear stitch, (2) crested chain stitch, (3) beaded hedebo edge, (4) chain stitch worked in acrylic knitting yarn