Herringbone Stitch  is also called plaited stitch or catch stitch, and is often used to work decorative borders and to accent the patchwork ...

Running stitch  is primarily used for borders and accent details. I’ve seen it trimming the bottoms of tea towels—a nice way to pick up some...

Another stitch from  Erica Wilson's Embroidery Book  is the  guilloche . From the French verb  guillocher , which means to ornament with...

There are actually a couple of ways to work  satin stitch . One involves outlining your shape with split stitch and we haven’t done that one...

I was wrong when I said that stem and outline stitch are the most common stitches. The  straight stitch  is even more basic. It can be stitc...

Another relatively easy stitch is called  Granitos . As near as I can figure,  granitos  means "little grains" in Spanish—like in ...

The  four-legged knot stitch  looks like a simple cross stitch with a knot in the center, but the knot is actually part of the second crosse...