How to tie embroidery thread

Are you struggling to thread up your thread for sewing or hand embroidery. In this tutorial I'll show some quick tips and techniques that make threading up your needle and finishing your thread much easier.

At Sew Modern Bags we bring you lots of fabulous sewing patterns each week. However, now and again we come across a training video or photo tutorial that we

How to thread a needle and tie a knot (embroidery thread) - YouTube

First things first, before you dive into your embroidery project, I’d like to show you how you can start and finish your embroidery thread to secure it. Traditionally using knots to start and finish your embroidery thread is a big no-no. And there are several reasons for this. Firstly the knot can show through your

Are you new to embroidery? Are you wondering how to thread an embroidery needle? It is actually fairly simple to do. Below, I will teach you how to thread an embroidery needle the easy way.

So - one of the very first videos I made showed how to tie a knot in your thread, for sewing or embroidery. A reader recently asked me how I knot off the thread on the back of my embroidery. Good question! Here's the answer. That's the back side of my Firefly Tree embroidery pattern

A quick and easy way for tying the best knot at the end of your thread ready for sewing!

Did you know you can separate hand embroidery thread? Six strand cotton embroidery thread is made up of 6 individual strands of thread that can be separated to create different weights when stitching. This is similar to using a fine line marker vs a bold marker. When I teach embroidery workshops, many attendees who've tried embroidery before don't realize you can in fact separate the embroidery thread. And if they've tried separating their thread, they've probably turned it into a giant…

What are embroidery thread bits called? Do they have a special name? What do you do with them? Do you try to save them for another project? Throw them away? After I had been embroidering for a few years, I started hearing the term orts. I wasn't really sure what it was being referred to or if I was missing something in translation. Turns out orts are thread bits!

The waste knot method is definitely the easiest and fastest I've come across for starting and finishing your embroidery threads.