Let your hand embroidery speak for you! Learn how to stitch letters in four decorative ways.

If you’re a hand embroiderer, a quilter, a textile artist, or a crafter, you’ve probably run into situations where you could add words, text, and lettering to your projects. Hand embroidery is an excellent way to personalize gifts, household objects, momentos, quilts, journal covers – just about anything! Writing with your needle and thread can ...

In this starter guide, I'll take you through how to hand embroider letters, or cursive - it's easier than you think!

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Do you want to stitch handwriting and make it look neat? There is nothing simpler! :) There are many ways to work lettering in hand embroidery and I actually already prepared a post on this topic before: Hand embroidery lettering ideas I based that article mostly on the posts that I already had on the blog and I actually did mention the trick from today in passing there. But without the visual support of a picture it's likely that some might have missed that. And then I got questions about…

It’s pretty wonderful that the alphabet samplers crafted by girls and women of centuries past…

Find out 4 of the best embroidery stitches for script lettering. I'll tell you why each stitch works and why you want to use it.