A-Z of Embroidery Stitches

Compiled by the expert team at Country Bumpkin, renowned Australian publishers of embroidery books and magazines.

4 Welcome - fabric beginning and ending thread transferring designs needles

8 Algerian Eye Stitch

9 Arrowhead stitch

9 Back stitch

10 Blanket stitch

Pinwheel double detached

Detached twisted long and short

Looped scallops

17 Braid stitch

18 Bullion knot

Rose with bullion centre

Susan O'Connor rose rosebuds

Rose with padded satin centre

Bears bow

Detached chain combination

31 Buttonhole stitch

32 Cast-on stitch rose

34 Chain stitch

Twisted alternating

Whipped interlaced

Open rosette rose

40 Chinese knot

41 Colonial knot

42 Combination stitch

Apple blossom

Flower bud

44 Concertina rose

45 Coral stitch

46 Couching

Bow Bokhara

Lattice Roumanian trellis

51 Cretan stitch

52 Cross stitch

Long armed

Straight stitch combination

54 Crow’s foot

55 Cutwork embroidery

56 Danish knot

57 Detached chain flowers

French knot combination flower

Blanket stitch combination

59 Detached wheatear stitch

60 Drizzle stitch flower

61 Ermine filling stitch

62 Eyelets

Flowers shaped

64 Faggoting

65 Feather stitch

Closed double and triple

Variations single

Spanish knotted

70 Fishbone stitch raised

72 Fly stitch twisted leaf

74 Folded Ribbon rose

Rosebud

76 Four-legged knot stitch

77 French knot

Ribbon flower

79 Gathered rose

80 Ghiordes knot

81 Glove stitch

81 Grab stitch with ribbon bud

82 Granitos

82 Hem stitch

Antique serpentine

85 Herringbone stitch

Double

86 Holbein stitch

87 Laid work

88 Long and short stitch

89 Loop stitch

Daisy daffodil flower

Twisted plumes

93 Needleweaving

Bar open base picot

Closed base picot

96 Net stitch

97 Outline stitch

98 Oyster stitch

99 Palestrina stitch

100 Pin stitching

101 Pistil stitch

101 Plume stitch

102 Raised cup stitch

103 Rhodes stitch circular

104 threading Ribbon

104 Ribbon stitch

Rose water lily

107 Running stitch

Whipped

108 Satin stitch

Bow with split stitch outline

Padded padded berries

111 Scroll stitch

111 Seed stitch

112 Shadow work

Double back stitch

Closed herringbone stitch

114 Shadow trapunto

115 Sheaf filling stitch

116 Shisha stitch

118 Smocker’s knot

119 Spider web rose

120 Split stitch

120 Split back stitch

121 Sprat’s head

122 Star stitch

122 Stem stitch

Encroaching whipped

Portuguese knotted raised

Ribbon rose

127 Straight overcast stitch

128 Straight stitch

Flower raised

130 Stumpwork berry

131 Tête de boeuf Stitch

131 Thorn stitch

132 Thread painting

133 Twirled ribbon rose

134 Wheatear stitch

134 Whipping stitch

135 Whipped stitch rose

136 Wool rose

138 Wound rose

139 Woven filling stitch

140 Zigzag stitch

141 Index

144 Bibliography