I'm offering a free embroidery pattern to say Happy Valentine's Day and as a thank you for your support of Stitch School. I get comm...

I recently helped out Susan at The T-Cozy by drafting a pattern from a very cute tea towel in her personal collection and she's now off...

In embroidery,  couching  is a technique for attaching a length of thread to a base fabric by taking tiny stitches over it at regular interv...

Back stitch  is yet another stitch that can be used for outlining. Not much else to say about it, except that it's pretty simple to do. ...

A reader asked a few weeks ago if I could talk about ending your work so it's both neat and holds up to washing and use. It's a subj...

French Knot or, as some of you have started referring to them, the dreaded French knot. Really, they aren’t that bad. French knots are e...

Today we're talking about coral stitch . Also called beaded stitch, German knot stitch, or snail trail, this stitch can be used singly t...