One of the best parts about embroidery is the ability to personalise your stitching with words. Adding names, initials or messages can turn your work into something that is, even more, special and meaningful. Especially if you are giving it as a gift! Read this blog to learn how to add embroidered words to patterns.

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

What stitches do you use for embroidering letters by hand? How to do script fonts and initials? Get started with letter embroidery!

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 ...

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5 tired and true tips for making embroidery lettering for beginners. We cover both block and script lettering.

Celebrate National Embroidery Month. Learn hand embroidery with these 29 stitching tutorials from MCreativeJ.

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

Have you noticed all of the hand embroidery projects with letters on them? From funny to inspirational, there is something for everyone. It’s not that hard to write your own messages with e…

This isn't the first time I've gotten into embroidered handwriting - and it probably won't be the last! If you've poked around a bit on Needle 'n Thread, you might be familiar with my tutorials on embroidered lettering and text. That was a fun sampler! And it morphed into a series of 15 free tuto