Lazy Daisy Stitch Tutorial

Welcome to Telecast Thursday where I'm continuing my series on hand embroidery with the Lazy Daisy stitch. This hand embroidery stitch is great for creating single flower petals or can be combined to create actual flowers. It's easy to do, but very effective and you'll find lots of uses for the Lazy Daisy stitch, so let's get started!

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If you haven't seen the other episodes in this series, you'll can find them here.

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Chain Stitch Tutorial

Welcome to Telecast Thursday. This week I have a new video on hand embroidery. In this video, I'll show you how to do the chain stitch. I love the look of the chain stitch and use it anytime I want some extra texture or to outline a shape. It's also perfect for vines and flower stems. It's one of those hand embroidery stitches that looks more complex than it actually is - I like that!

You can watch the video below or on my Youtube channel. 

If you haven't seen the other episodes in this series, you'll can find them here.

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French Knot Tutorial

Welcome to Telecast Thursday. This week I'm continuing my series on hand embroidery by focussing on the French knot stitch. This stitch can be used for many different purposes. I like to use it to add texture to an embroidered piece and it's also perfect for creating eyes or other small details in embroidery or appliqué projects.

You can watch the video below or on my Youtube channel. 

If you haven't seen the other episodes in this series, you'll can find them here.

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I hope you've been trying out the stitches in my embroidery Telecast Thursday series. Let me know which one is your favourite.

Fly Stitch Tutorial

It's another Telecast Thursday and time for more hand embroidery stitches! So far we've mastered the back stitch, the running stitch and the seed stitch. This week's video shows you how to do a fly stitch, which is a little more complicated than the first three stitches that you learned. Don't worry, it's not that complex and it is very effective if you use it on swirls and circles. 

You can watch the video below or on my Youtube channel. 

I hope you're finding these tutorials helpful and are trying out some of these stitches on actual projects. If you're looking for projects using these stitches, check out my FREE embroidery patterns. You'll be learning more stitches in future Telecast Thursday tutorials, allowing you to complete some of the designs, such as Flourishing Heart, that use more than these three stitches. 

Let me know how the stitching goes - and send me photos of your projects.

Telecast Thursday - Quick Projects in a Hoop

This Telecast Thursday I'm taking a break from hand embroidery stitches to show you a quick project you can do with an embroidery hoop (so it is still sort of about embroidery). 

I made these cute designs for gifts for friends and was really pleased by the end result. I think some of it was the fabric I used, which was from the Noteworthy line by Sweetwater for Moda. It was perfect for this project. I used wooden embroidery hoops - just inexpensive ones - but I think this would work equally as well with plastic hoops. You decide which you prefer.

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I hope you'll try this idea and show me what you've created. I love to see your photos!