Hand embroidery design

Embroidery is a fun and relaxing craft that lends to making beautiful pieces of art..This guide will show you stitches that are perfect for beginners, but also look impressive. First, we'll start with the running stitch. This is an extremely basic, albeit boring, stitch. However, the running stitch is super easy and is the basis for some really intricate (and more fun) stitches introduced later.

The running stitch is extremely simple to make, making it the perfect stitch for learning how to embroider. In fact, if you ever played with sewing cards when you were a child, you've probably already got this stitch down to an art!

I learned to embroider with this very first stitch after I was inspired by really cute designs I found in the book, Doodle Stitching. To this day, Doodle Stitching is one of my favorite embroidery books. If you want some trendy design motifs to get you started, I highly recommend this book.

So let's learn how to embroider!