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!

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.

Stem stitch is a beautiful rope-like hand embroidery stitch that works great for writing with a needle and thread. There are two real difficulties with stem stitch: stitch direction and curves. I’ll try to eliminate both of those difficulties in this tutorial. Before venturing into the tutorial, you might want to take a look at ...

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 ...

If you want to add a personal touch to your projects, learning how to embroider letters is a great skill to have. This tutorial covers 4 simple stitches.

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

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

This is a brief exercise in the Hand Embroidered Lettering series here on Needle ‘n Thread. The word is short – “The” – and I’m using a fairly easy stitch for it (the heavy chain stitch). I’ll tell you why I chose this stitch, show you the thread I’m using, and give you a look ...