Such an enjoyable relaxing video. I appreciate that you first show how to do the stitch in a straight line and then apply it to a letter. Beautiful work.
Her videos are so informative and I like how she not only shows you the straight line, but then goes over how to use it in practice - without speeding up the video. I also learned the value of the starting stitch and how the “no knotting” method works. And, I appreciate that she doesn’t edit out her mistakes and instead shows us how she corrects them. Her Palestrina stitches are so beautifully done!
This is a wonderful video! I haven't embroidered for 50 years or more and had forgotten even basic stitches. Thank you for showing, in detail, how to do the stitch and then how to use it. I would like to see the back of your finished work, as well. (I suspect that your back is as neat and precise as your front!)
I did a video all about the back of your work recently Mary, so do check that out! We have lots of videos on all the basics as well, including how to start and finish threads, how to use a hoop, backing fabric...all sorts!
Very inspiring. Best stitching tutorial I've ever seen. I love how you show the stitch technique first and then go on to show how to use it. Thank you.
Thank you, Sarah, that was nicely detailed and easy to follow. I'm just beginning, and I'm glad to have found you early on - I feel like I've gotten a running start! One comment on the overall video, which was excellent overall...I notice that in many, many tutorials, across all kinds of craft, the artist never shows the entire final product. I wish you had showed us the full array of embroidered letters at the end of the demo, to get an idea of how each style contrasts with each other, as in a sampler. I was looking forward, after following through all the intricate work, to seeing a final product - closure, if you will! And a useful tool for selecting and designing.
Fantastic tutorial! I wanted to embroider my little granddaughter's name (its quite long LOL!) on a quilted pump bag for her first day at school this September. I loved the palestrina stitch as soon as I saw it and started straight away. I found it very easy following your detailed instructions. It's looking beautiful in the variegated thread as you suggest. I'm sure my daughter and her little girl will love it. Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video. Your teaching style is very relaxed but also precise.
Thank you for the refresher course. I am 55 and I used to embroider with my great-grandmother as a child. I loved it, and I loved the time with her. I am a grandmother now and want to embroider my granddaughters name on everything. When she is older I hope to teach her. I will have to practice till then. I am starting off with pillow cases with their names for Christmas. I have never seen that last stitch before it's very pretty. Thank you.
Thank you for all your wonderful tutorial videos Sarah. The Palestrina stitch has always intimidated me. I watched this video again, took a deep breath and worked a few samples (as you recommend in another video) and I manged to master the stitch - well, sewed it well enough to add to the embroidery I'm working on at the moment anyway. I was so pleased with myself that I bragged to my husband, who knows what's good for himself, and he complimented my neat stitches. 😀
The fabric I'm using for this project is Linen twill and is available from our online shop here: www.sarahhomfray.com/myshop/prod_5747879-Jacobean-linen-Twill-Large-48cm-x-48cm.html
When I was a kid growing up in the fifties I was sent every Saturday afternoon to the house of an elderly lady to learn embroidery. Whenever I fly anywhere now, I get one of those little embroidery kits to keep my fingers and mind busy during the flight - for some reason, I’ve realised that a needle is one thing security doesn’t mind you taking on board! Now I can practice some letters as well :-)) Thanks for posting!
Really fun to watch, will try that gorgeous Palestrina stitch - thank you! This is the first of your videos I've seen, currently doing a lot of knitting, I'll have to take a break and try some embroidery!
Job well done! I really appreciate the way your explanations are precise and consistent. Thank you for an excellent video that makes me want to practice and learn more beautiful stitches!!!
seems I'll stick to stem stitch for my little project... but great to see alternatives, they'll come in handy when the letters are bigger. My first try at outlining a shape was flat stitching from left to right, like in some machine embroidery. This is way easier...
I used to do embroidery as a small child, tray clothes, chair backs, hankies etc. but I'm thinking of taking it up again as an lady in my late 60'sso your videos are really awesome for me to 'relearn' this lovely stitchwork.
Thank you for this tutorial, It's so well explained and demonstrated! I was recently inspired to add hand embroidered writing to my designs. Your work is beautiful!
Very nicely done. Would love to see more advanced embroidery stitches and techniques. So many people upload the same basics. It was good to learn the Palestrina stitch
We've had alot of embroidery beginners recently so we are trying to give something for everyone! We have some more complicated stitches coming for those that need a bit of a challenge!
Well blow me down, here I am at 68 and I always thought you had to stitch the bottom thread underneath in some fashion then couch it afterward. How I laughed🥴 Thank you for this little gem 💞
you just have such a calm and gentle demeanor. It's so peaceful watching your do embroidery! Thank you, I will try embroidering my newborn niece's name on the diaper bloomer I made :)
I'm like a swan Tara, calm on the surface...:) Hope your lettering works well; I don't know what fabric that would be but if it has any stretch make sure you don't stretch it before you sew on it!
Thank you so much Sarah! You made it very easy to understand and I could see everything you were doing! I hope to make my letters as beautiful as you have!
Wish I could add pictures because I have been avoiding embroidering lettering since I started last year but just watched your video and gave it a go! Really happy with the results :) Thanks so much! x
Just picked up embroidery after a couple of years and this is incredibly helpful! I feel like you've made easy something I would otherwise find complicated. I commend your expertise and look forward to applying these techniques on my next project! :)
I’m struggling deciding with stitching a child’s name on a piece - your woven back stitch is so much nicer than I’ve seen before - just had a quick try and it’s perfect!!!
I'm really looking forward to this 5lettering stitches. I'm planning on making handkerchiefs for my grand daughters. I think they believe hankerchiefs come of of a box ans are made of paper. Can't wait to tell them you don't use them once and throw them away. You wash and reuse them! I was trying to think of a way of combining their first initial with one of your patterns for small floral motifs. Using their favorite colors and flowers. I'd probaby put this in a corner with a small bow to create a bow. Haven't figured out what to do with the rest of all that white space, suggestions anyone?
Hello Sarah! I have been watching many of your videos and my technique is getting a bit better. I have a question....are you using an away holding stitch or the eponymous holding stitch at the beginning of the video?
This is so fun! I left embroidery behind many, many years ago, but have been following The Ugly Stitch Club & now you're teaching me how to add interest to my projects! God bless you & your generosity!
That's how we were taught as it was called in my senior day capital double writing.its a shame as I taught my girls proper double writing diong the capitals like you just showed on paper.unlike what my poor grandchildren writing looks like called now joined up writing??.the idea of double or joined writing is to write a whole name without taking pen from paper only when finished to cross a T or dot and I.now I will learn from you to embroidery on initials on a bag or clothes for my grandchildren .looks better than a plain J dont you think thank you uk
I’m so happy I found your videos, I really enjoyed embroidery as a youngster, but life gets in the way, I am getting back into it and will practice these stitches. You have such a calming voice and your approach is relaxed, I appreciate these videos and the time you have put into making them, thank you
Great tutorial on all these beautiful stitches. I had a question about the stem stitch. As you work up the leg the loop is to the right and is inside the circle of the top part. At the top of the S where it starts to curve back down, do you still keep the loop to the right? Because it would now be outside the circle so the stitch would be going a different direction. Hopefully my question makes sense.
Loved this video! You made it so easy to understand each stitch and the camera showed everything perfectly. I will be trying all of these and watching many more of your embroidery tutorials. Thank you, Sarah!
Thank you you done 3 letters I needed A.S. R I love the look of weaving 2 colours her school one is brown and mustard gold.thats her tie so I'm going to do back stitch in black and the thread you weave in and out in red grat tip not to go over the like.giong to give it a go as it looks realy effective thank you once again
the black carrerier for embroidery thread there was three trays I would to have one like it. i love your instructions , i am 85 please help me. I am a late blommer Elsie Houston
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Thank you for your kind donation to support this video Carol!
It’s 1:43 am why is this so satisfying
Ha ha!!! I hope I'm not keeping you up Ismael!
I don't know but I am relaxed now!
Ismael, I’m a night owl too. There are several nights a week I see 1:43 AM as well. Enjoy your stitching
Because you're seeing it come alive! (It's also 1:43 am when I posted this.)
Its 2 : 26 and its still satisfying
Such an enjoyable relaxing video. I appreciate that you first show how to do the stitch in a straight line and then apply it to a letter. Beautiful work.
Thank you Eloise!
You are the Bob Ross of embroidery. So soothing & calm to watch. Love your vids!
I'll take that! 😁👍
❤️❤️❤️ 🖌️ 🎨
Like good ASMR!
Her videos are so informative and I like how she not only shows you the straight line, but then goes over how to use it in practice - without speeding up the video. I also learned the value of the starting stitch and how the “no knotting” method works. And, I appreciate that she doesn’t edit out her mistakes and instead shows us how she corrects them. Her Palestrina stitches are so beautifully done!
*Wants to learn to embroider* hates all videos until I find an accent that isnt American* Ahh that's nice!!
If you liked these stitches for lettering, here are 5 more for you! ua-cam.com/video/LKZfwEdkoF8/v-deo.html
This is a wonderful video! I haven't embroidered for 50 years or more and had forgotten even basic stitches. Thank you for showing, in detail, how to do the stitch and then how to use it. I would like to see the back of your finished work, as well. (I suspect that your back is as neat and precise as your front!)
I did a video all about the back of your work recently Mary, so do check that out! We have lots of videos on all the basics as well, including how to start and finish threads, how to use a hoop, backing fabric...all sorts!
Very inspiring. Best stitching tutorial I've ever seen. I love how you show the stitch technique first and then go on to show how to use it. Thank you.
Can not say thank you enough for this wonderful tutorial. You are a great teacher.
Thank you! Invaluable teaching... I really do appreciate your time and skills 🌸
You are a lovely teacher, and I love watching your tutorials and listening to your calm voice . Thank you
Thank you, Sarah, that was nicely detailed and easy to follow. I'm just beginning, and I'm glad to have found you early on - I feel like I've gotten a running start!
One comment on the overall video, which was excellent overall...I notice that in many, many tutorials, across all kinds of craft, the artist never shows the entire final product. I wish you had showed us the full array of embroidered letters at the end of the demo, to get an idea of how each style contrasts with each other, as in a sampler. I was looking forward, after following through all the intricate work, to seeing a final product - closure, if you will! And a useful tool for selecting and designing.
We will take your point into account; if you follow me on social media there is often pictures of the stitching on there!
Fantastic tutorial! I wanted to embroider my little granddaughter's name (its quite long LOL!) on a quilted pump bag for her first day at school this September.
I loved the palestrina stitch as soon as I saw it and started straight away. I found it very easy following your detailed instructions. It's looking beautiful in the variegated thread as you suggest. I'm sure my daughter and her little girl will love it.
Thank you so much for taking the time to make this video. Your teaching style is very relaxed but also precise.
Glad to be of help Madforbread! I'm sure she will love her new pump bag!
Aww.. 😍 I love how you explained everything in detail.. I love you.. ❤️.. you're such a gifted instructor.. loads of ❤️..
Thank you for the refresher course. I am 55 and I used to embroider with my great-grandmother as a child. I loved it, and I loved the time with her. I am a grandmother now and want to embroider my granddaughters name on everything. When she is older I hope to teach her. I will have to practice till then. I am starting off with pillow cases with their names for Christmas. I have never seen that last stitch before it's very pretty. Thank you.
It's great to pass this skill down through the generations Dj, how wonderful to be taught by your great grandmother!
Thank you for all your wonderful tutorial videos Sarah. The Palestrina stitch has always intimidated me. I watched this video again, took a deep breath and worked a few samples (as you recommend in another video) and I manged to master the stitch - well, sewed it well enough to add to the embroidery I'm working on at the moment anyway. I was so pleased with myself that I bragged to my husband, who knows what's good for himself, and he complimented my neat stitches. 😀
He's well trained Rosemary!! It is a beautiful stitch, well done for sticking with it x
It's an old saying, but one worth keeping: "Happy wife, happy life."
Assuming it comes from conversation and mutual compromise, of course.
Amen lol lol
I'm looking forward to adding these decorative stitches to my sewing project. Excellent video--great teacher!
Thank you so much for taking the time to explain these stitches so clearly. I have never done this before and yet I was able to follow along easily.
Glad it was helpful Amy!
The fabric I'm using for this project is Linen twill and is available from our online shop here:
www.sarahhomfray.com/myshop/prod_5747879-Jacobean-linen-Twill-Large-48cm-x-48cm.html
I was about to ask that very question before I clicked on comments. Pardon my absence while I go fabric shopping lol 😆
When I was a kid growing up in the fifties I was sent every Saturday afternoon to the house of an elderly lady to learn embroidery. Whenever I fly anywhere now, I get one of those little embroidery kits to keep my fingers and mind busy during the flight - for some reason, I’ve realised that a needle is one thing security doesn’t mind you taking on board! Now I can practice some letters as well :-)) Thanks for posting!
I was actually wondering if I would be able to take this on a flight! Thank you for your insight :)
Thank you for the video, needed the refresher since I haven't done decorative stitching since I was a kid when my grandma taught me.
Thank you. Your video is very easy to follow and is just what I was looking for to help me personalise Christmas decorations 🙂
Thanks for your tutorials and Happy New Year !
Really fun to watch, will try that gorgeous Palestrina stitch - thank you! This is the first of your videos I've seen, currently doing a lot of knitting, I'll have to take a break and try some embroidery!
Love your channel
What’s the last stitch called? Thanks
Palestrina.
Thank you so much for this! Complete beginner and this video was incredibly helpful :)
You have a lovely way about you! Thank you for the video - going to try the palestrina stitch!
Thank that was easy to follow, I enjoyed listening to you.
Very clear instructions and video! Do you have a video of how to embroider teeny tiny letters (maybe a quarter inch)?
Job well done! I really appreciate the way your explanations are precise and consistent. Thank you for an excellent video that makes me want to practice and learn more beautiful stitches!!!
It’s been years and years since at last did embroidery, I find it very relaxing and glad I found u and new stitch’s to try
Good instructions
Lovely line stitching! I love having a try afterwards, thank you for sharing!
seems I'll stick to stem stitch for my little project... but great to see alternatives, they'll come in handy when the letters are bigger. My first try at outlining a shape was flat stitching from left to right, like in some machine embroidery. This is way easier...
So thorough and clear to follow!
lovely video! so well explained ... you have a sweet smile :)
I used to do embroidery as a small child, tray clothes, chair backs, hankies etc. but I'm thinking of taking it up again as an lady in my late 60'sso your videos are really awesome for me to 'relearn' this lovely stitchwork.
You never forget Margaret!
Thank you for this tutorial, It's so well explained and demonstrated! I was recently inspired to add hand embroidered writing to my designs. Your work is beautiful!
Thank you!
Thank you so much! You teaching from your Heart ❤️ I can understand so clearly!
Very nicely done. Would love to see more advanced embroidery stitches and techniques. So many people upload the same basics. It was good to learn the Palestrina stitch
We've had alot of embroidery beginners recently so we are trying to give something for everyone! We have some more complicated stitches coming for those that need a bit of a challenge!
I've watched loads of embroidery video's but this one actually taught me something, now I think I'm ready to give it a go myself, Thankyou
Glad you found it useful Elizabeth! Hope you enjoy these stitches...
So pleased I found your invaluable video! Your tutorial was so easy to understand and your voice is calming. Thank you ❤
Thank you so much for your clear explanation and excellent close up camera angles! Great video!
very very helpful and easy to follow, thank you so much for this!
Thank you 🙏 it’s helpful
Well blow me down, here I am at 68 and I always thought you had to stitch the bottom thread underneath in some fashion then couch it afterward. How I laughed🥴 Thank you for this little gem 💞
You could do that Anna but it is definately the hard way of doing it!
Very well done, thank you so much! This is just what I needed, especially the little details to make it just right.
Thank you for your video is amazing greetings from Colombia 🇨🇴 😍 😍 😍 ✨✨✨💕💕✨
Hope all is well in Colombia Nataly!
you just have such a calm and gentle demeanor. It's so peaceful watching your do embroidery! Thank you, I will try embroidering my newborn niece's name on the diaper bloomer I made :)
I'm like a swan Tara, calm on the surface...:) Hope your lettering works well; I don't know what fabric that would be but if it has any stretch make sure you don't stretch it before you sew on it!
Thank you so much Sarah! You made it very easy to understand and I could see everything you were doing! I hope to make my letters as beautiful as you have!
Thank you So much! I have learned so much from your videos.
That was great! I’ll definitely try to use these stitches for letters!
Thank u mam, nicely shown
How do you do letter continuations without having multiple knots
This was so helpful, Sarah! Thank you so much for posting this in its entirety
You are such a great teacher. I can't wait to practice what I've learned in this video. Thanks for making it❤❤❤
That palestrina stitch looks crazy confusing, but it's so beautiful! I would like to try it in a modern embroidery piece to add some texture
It's not too bad if you take it slowly until you get used to it! Worth the effort to learn as it's so beauitful...
I was gonna practice but can’t do this comfortably without a holding system 😕🤷🏻♀️oh well will do other stitches..🙏🏽🙋🏻♀️👍🏽
It is oh so beautiful work!
The palestrina stitch is so pretty! Thank you for the tutorial =)
I love this stitch - very best demo of how to do it I have ever seen.
It’s 3:08 AM Friday, August 25 and I just discovered your channel and it’s so relaxing and your work is stunning a new subscriber here😊❤
Wish I could add pictures because I have been avoiding embroidering lettering since I started last year but just watched your video and gave it a go! Really happy with the results :) Thanks so much! x
Make sure you check out our video going up later on today!
Just picked up embroidery after a couple of years and this is incredibly helpful! I feel like you've made easy something I would otherwise find complicated. I commend your expertise and look forward to applying these techniques on my next project! :)
I’m struggling deciding with stitching a child’s name on a piece - your woven back stitch is so much nicer than I’ve seen before - just had a quick try and it’s perfect!!!
Excellent Tracy! Sometimes it's the simpler stitches that are the best ones to use...
I'm really looking forward to this 5lettering stitches. I'm planning on making handkerchiefs for my grand daughters. I think they believe hankerchiefs come of of a box ans are made of paper. Can't wait to tell them you don't use them once and throw them away. You wash and reuse them! I was trying to think of a way of combining their first initial with one of your patterns for small floral motifs. Using their favorite colors and flowers. I'd probaby put this in a corner with a small bow to create a bow. Haven't figured out what to do with the rest of all that white space, suggestions anyone?
Great video. Thank you!!!
You are very patient, just as though we’re in front of you. Thanks
Thank you Sarah, you are an exceptional detailed and thorough teacher 🎉
This is great, im having a hard time stitching letters and this video helps me a lot.
Hello Sarah! I have been watching many of your videos and my technique is getting a bit better. I have a question....are you using an away holding stitch or the eponymous holding stitch at the beginning of the video?
Great camera work. Good to see different perspectives of the stitches. Much appreciated 💜💐💜
This is so fun! I left embroidery behind many, many years ago, but have been following The Ugly Stitch Club & now you're teaching me how to add interest to my projects! God bless you & your generosity!
That's how we were taught as it was called in my senior day capital double writing.its a shame as I taught my girls proper double writing diong the capitals like you just showed on paper.unlike what my poor grandchildren writing looks like called now joined up writing??.the idea of double or joined writing is to write a whole name without taking pen from paper only when finished to cross a T or dot and I.now I will learn from you to embroidery on initials on a bag or clothes for my grandchildren .looks better than a plain J dont you think thank you uk
A great tutorial I’ve been embroidering for year but I’ve learned so much for you, thank you 🙏
it's very nice finishing hendwork Rajput nita chauhan
lovely video thank u so much ♥️
This video is very clear and easy to follow. Thank you!
Thanks a lot for your work!
Your tutorials are superb!! Thank you!!
Very good tutorial video 👍
I’m so happy I found your videos, I really enjoyed embroidery as a youngster, but life gets in the way, I am getting back into it and will practice these stitches. You have such a calming voice and your approach is relaxed, I appreciate these videos and the time you have put into making them, thank you
Thank you for watching Michele, glad you are finding them helpful!
Great tutorial on all these beautiful stitches. I had a question about the stem stitch. As you work up the leg the loop is to the right and is inside the circle of the top part. At the top of the S where it starts to curve back down, do you still keep the loop to the right? Because it would now be outside the circle so the stitch would be going a different direction. Hopefully my question makes sense.
Was thinking of lettering for Stitch Sampler...
Sarah, You're an amazing teacher. I love the way you explain every move and your knowledge is invaluable. Thank You!!
Thank you rage108!
I’m interested in hand embroidering a tulle veil. Do you have any suggestions on the best type of stitch and thread to use?
So glad I found you I've just picked up on my cross stitch after moving house a few times, can't wait to try the letters 😊 Elaine x
That H is gorgeous!! Thank you for making these videos ❤
I haven't even gotten to the end of your stem stitch and I know this is the best tutorial ever. Thank you for the clear explanation!
Glad you are enjoying Beena!
Loved this video! You made it so easy to understand each stitch and the camera showed everything perfectly. I will be trying all of these and watching many more of your embroidery tutorials. Thank you, Sarah!
Thank you BJ! We have loads more videos to keep you busy!
Amazing video and so useful. Thank you.
Thanks 😊, lovely ❤️
Thank you you done 3 letters I needed A.S. R I love the look of weaving 2 colours her school one is brown and mustard gold.thats her tie so I'm going to do back stitch in black and the thread you weave in and out in red grat tip not to go over the like.giong to give it a go as it looks realy effective thank you once again
I'm new to embroidery but I love it !! I think you are lovely and thank you for sharing your videos and tips!
That’s amazing really neat love it 🥰
Thank you for sharing this. You are so lovely to listen to and your explanations / demonstrations are so clear.
Thank you so much Karen, glad you are enjoying!
Nice embroidery..It's really useful video.. I like it..keep going👍👍
I am doing a gift for a niece and wanting to add her name. What stitch do you like to use? Should I use a color from the stitched item or black?
EXCELLENT TUTORIAL 👏👏👏👏
THANK YOU FOR SHARING 👍👍👍👍👍
Is it called something else if the loop is on the left side for stem stitch?
Outline stitch!
the black carrerier for embroidery thread there was three trays I would to have one like it. i love your instructions , i am 85 please help me. I am a late blommer Elsie Houston