May 5, 2025
Learning Lots of Stitches & How to Go About It
A little while ago, I received an inquiry that I thought was pretty interesting.
There are so many embroidery stitches, but how do people really use them all? If I want to learn them, what’s the best way to go about it? And then how do you put them to use?
It’s actually more than one question, and it generates a whole slew of possibilities for answers.
My first answer was going to be simple, “You don’t.”
People, taken individually, don’t tend to learn every embroidery stitch under the sun, and they certainly don’t use all the embroidery stitches that have been implemented in stitchery over the ages in one project – or even in a whole lifetime of projects.
Most stitchers stick with a relatively small repertoire of stitches, in fact. And there’s nothing wrong with that!
