Embroidery Stitches and Techniques for Beginners to Advance Level

1. Alternating Chain Stitch (see Chain stitch, Alternating. Also called Checkered Chain, Two-Colored Chain, Magic Chain Stitch)
2. • Algerian Eyelet
   • Alternating Twisted Chain stitch
   • Anklet Stitch
   • Antwerp edging
3. Back Stitch
4. Basket Stitch
5. Basque Stitch
6. Blanket Stitch
7. Bonnet Stitch
8. Braided Chain Stitch
9. Bullion Knot Stitch
10. Backstitch
    Backstitch, Laced
    Backstitch, Whipped
    Basket Stitch (Spanish Stitch, Plait Stitch)
    Beaded Drizzle Stitch (see Drizzle Stitch, Beaded)
    Basque Stitch
    Blanket Stitch (see Buttonhole Stitch; also called Spaced Buttonhole Stitch)
    Bokhara Couching (Bokharan couching)
    Braid Stitch (see Cable Plait Stitch; also called Figure Eight Stitch)
    Braided Chain Stitch (see Hungarian Braided Chain Stitch)
    Bullion Knots (Coil Stitch, Knot Stitch, Caterpillar Stitch, Worm Stitch, Roll Stitch, Post Stitch, Slug Stitch, Grub knot)
    Bullion Buttonhole Wheels (with buttonholed edge)
    Bullion Rose Bud
    Bullion Stem Stitch
    Buttonhole Stitch (Blanket Stitch)
    Buttonhole, Detached (Detached Buttonhole Filling)
    Buttonhole, Up & Down
    Buttonhole Wheels
11. • Backstitch
    • Backstitched Chain Stitch
    • Barb Stitch
    • Basket Stitch
    • Basque Knot
    • Basque Stitch
    • Berwick Stitch
    • Blanket Stitch
    • Blanket Stitch Filling
    • Blanket Stitch Filling in Circles
    • Blanket Stitch Sewing
    • Bokhara Couching
    • Brick Stitch
    • Bullion Knot Stitch
    • Bulls Head Stitch
    • Burden Stitch
    • Butterfly Chain Stitch
    • Buttonhole Bar
    • Buttonhole Shading
    • Buttonhole Stitch
    • Buttonhole Wheel
12. Cable Chain Stitch
13. Cable On Stitch
14. Cable Plait Stitch
15. Chain Stitch
16. Chevron Stitch
17. Couching Stitch
18. Crested Chain Stitch
19. Cretan Stitch
20. Cross Stitch
21. Cross Buttonhole Stitch

22. Cable Chain Stitch
    Cable Plait Stitch (Braid Stitch, Figure Eight Stitch)
    Cast-On Stitch
    Chain Stitch
    Chain Stitch, Alternating (Checkered Chain Stitch, Magic Stitch, Two-Colored Chain Stitch)
    Chain Stitch, Braided (see Hungarian Braided Chain Stitch)
    Chain Stitch, Cable
    Chain Stitch, Crested (Spanish Coral Stitch)
    Chain Stitch, Detached (Daisy Stitch, Lazy Daisy)
    Chain Stitch, Heavy
    Chain Stitch, Knotted
    Chain Stitch, Open (Square Chain Stitch)
    Chain Stitch, Twisted
    Chevron Stitch
    Chinese Knot
    Colonial Knot (Figure Eight Knot, Candlewick Knot)
    Coral Stitch (Coral Knot Stitch, Beaded Stitch, German Knot Stitch, Knotted Stitch)
    Couching

23. • Cable Chain Stitch
    • Ceylon Stitch
    • Chain stitch (regular and reverse)
    • Chain Stitch Filling
    • Chevron Stitch
    • Chevron Stitch Filling
    • Closed Blanket Stitch
    • Closed Cretan Stitch
    • Closed Fly Stitch
    • Closed Herringbone Stitch
    • Colonial Knot
    • Connected Fly Stitch
    • Coral Stitch
    • Corded Detached Blanket Stitch
    • Couching Stitch
    • Couching Stitch Filling
    • Cretan Stitch
    • Cross Stitch Filling
    • Crossed Blanket Stitch
    • Crossed Fly Stitch Filling
    • Crown Stitch
24. Double Chain Stitch
25. Double Cross Stitch
26. Drizzle Stitch
27. Daisy Stitch (Detached Chain)
    Detached Buttonhole (See Buttonhole, Detached; also called Detached Buttonhole Filling)
    Diamond Stitch (Knotted Diamond Stitch)
    Double Chain Stitch (see Chain Stitch, Double)
    Double Feather Stitch (see Feather Stitch, Double)
    Double Herringbone Stitch (see Herringbone Stitch, Double)
    Drizzle Stitch
    Drizzle Stitch, Beaded
28. • Darning Stitch
    • Detached Chain Stitch
    • Double Blanket Stitch
    • Double Chevron Stitch
    • Double Chevron Stitch Filling
    • Double Feather Stitch
    • Double Lazy Daisy Stitch
    • Double Threaded Back Stitch
    • Double Threaded Running Stitch
    • Duplicate Stitch
29. • Eastern Stitch
    • Ermine Stitch
    • Eskimo Lace Ending Stitch
    • Eyelet Star Stitch
    • Eyelet Wheel Stitch
30. Feather Stitch
31. Fishbone Stitch
32. Fly Stitch
33. French Knot
34. Feather Stitch
    Feather Stitch, Double
    Fern Stitch
    Fishbone Stitch
    Fishbone Stitch, Raised
    Fly Stitch – Horizontal (Open Loop Stitch, Y Stitch)
    Fly Stitch – Vertical
    French Knot
    French Knots, Elongated (see Pistil Stitch)
35. • Fairy Lights Stitch (Parallel Running Stitch)
    • Fan Stitch
    • Feather Stitch
    • Feathered Chain Stitch
    • Fern Stitch
    • Fishbone Stitch
    • Fly Stitch
    • French Knots
36. Ghiordes Knot (Turkey Work)
    Granitos
    Guilloche Stitch
37. • German Knotted Blanket Stitch
    • Granitos Stitch
38. Heavy Chain Stitch
39. Herringbone Stitch
40. Heavy Chain Stitch (see Chain Stitch, Heavy)
    Herringbone Stitch
    Herringbone Stitch, Double
    Hungarian Braided Chain Stitch (Hungarian Braid Stitch, Hungarian Chain Stitch, Braided Chain Stitch)
41. • Half Chevron Stitch
    • Herringbone Ladder Stitch
    • Herringbone Stitch
    • Holbein Stitch
    • Honeycomb Filling Stitch
    • Hungarian Braided Chain Stitch
42. • Interlaced Chain Stitch
43. • Jacobean Couching
    • Japanese Darning Stitch
44. Knotted Diamond Stitch
45. Knotted Loop Stitch
46. Knotted Stem Stitch
47. Knotted Diamond Stitch (see Diamond Stitch)
    Knotted Pearl Stitch (Reverse Palestrina Stitch)
48. • Knotted Cable Chain Stitch
    • Kogin Stitch
49. Ladder Stitch
50. Lazy Daisy Stitch
51. Long and Short Stitch
52. Laced Backstitch
    Laced Running Stitch
    Ladder Stitch
    Lattice (Lattice Work, Lattice Stitch)
    Laying Tool (How to use one)
    Long & Short Stitch
53. • Laced Herringbone Stitch
    • Lazy Daisy Stitch
    • Leaf Stitch
    • Long and Short Stitch
    • Looped Running Stitch
54. Mountmellick Stitch
55. Mountmellick Thorn Stitch
56. • Magic Chain Stitch
    • Maidenhair Stitch
    • Meandering Stitch (Parallel Running Stitch)
    • Mirrored Blanket Stitch
57. Old English Knot Stitch (see Palestrina Stitch)
    Open Chain Stitch (see Chain Stitch, Open; also called Square Chain Stitch)
    Open Cretan Stitch
    Outline Stitch
    Oyster Stitch
58. • Open Backstitch
    • Open Chain Stitch
    • Otomi Stitch
    • Outline Stitch
    • Overlock Stitch
59. Palestrina Knot Stitch
60. Pekinese Stitch
61. Palestrina Stitch (Twilling, Double Knot Stitch, Old English Knot Stitch, Smyrna Stitch, Tied Coral Stitch)
    Palestrina Stitch, Reversed (see Knotted Pearl Stitch)
    Pistil Stitch (Elongated French Knots)
    Plait Stitch (see Basket Stitch; also called Spanish Stitch)
    Plaited Braid Stitch
    Portuguese Knotted Stem Stitch
62. • Padded Satin Stitch
    • Palestrina Stitch
    • Parallel Running Stitch
    • Pekinese Stitch
    • Pistil Stitch
    • Plaited Fly Stitch
63. • Queen Stitch
64. Rosette Chain Stitch
65. Running Stitch
66. Raised Cup Stitch
    Raised Fishbone Stitch (see Fishbone, Raised)
    Raised Stem Stitch (see Stem Stitch, Raised)
    Reverse Palestrina Stitch (see Knotted Pearl Stitch)
    Romanian Couching
    Rope Stitch
    Rose Leaf Stitch
    Rose Leaf Stitch Bud
    Rosette Chain Stitch
    Running Stitch
    Running Stitch, Whipped
    Running Stitch, Laced
67. • Radiating Stitch
    • Raised Fishbone Stitch
    • Reverse Chain Stitch
    • Rice Stitch (Seed Stitch)
    • Rosette of Thorns Stitch
    • Running Stitch
68. Satin Stitch
69. Scroll Stitch
70. Sheaf Stitch
71. Shell Stitch
72. Sorbello Stitch
73. Spiderweb Stitch
74. Split Stitch
75. Stem Stitch
76. Satin Stitch
    Scroll Stitch
    Seed Stitch
    Shisha Stitch (Traditional)
    Shisha, Variation 1
    Shisha, Variation 2
    Shisha, Variation 3 (Very Simple!)
    Shisha with Beetle Wings
    Spanish Stitch (see Basket Stitch; also called Plait Stitch)
    Spanish Knotted Feather Stitch
    Spider Web – Ribbed
    Spider Web – Woven (see Woven Wheel)
    Split Stitch
    Square Chain Stitch (see Chain Stitch, Open)
    Stem Stitch
    Stem Stitch, Bullion (see Bullion Stem Stitch)
    Stem Stitch, Raised
77. • Satin Stitch
    • Scallop Stitch
    • Scotch Darning Stitch
    • Scottish Cretan Stitch
    • Scroll Stitch
    • Seed Stitch (Rice Stitch)
    • Sewing with Blanket Stitch
    • Single Feather Stitch
    • Sorbello Stitch
    • Split Backstitch
    • Split Stitch
    • Split Stitch Filling
    • Star Stitch
    • Stem Stitch
    • Stem Stitch Filling
    • Stepped Running Stitch
    • Straight Stitch
    • Sun Wheel Stitch
    • Surface Satin Stitch
78. Twisted Chain Stitch
79. Tambour Stitch (Chain Stitch with a tambour hook)
    Trellis Stitch
    Tulip Stitch
    Turkey Work (Ghiordes Knot Stitch)
    Turk’s Head Knot Stitch
    Twilling (see Palestrina Stitch)
    Twisted Chain Stitch
80. • Tacked Herringbone Stitch
    • Threaded Backstitch
    • Threaded Running Stitch
    • Triangular Turkish Stitch
    • Tulip Stitch
    • Turkey Work
    • Twisted Chain Stitch
    • Twisted Fly Stitch
81. Up & Down Buttonhole Stitch (see Buttonhole, Up & Down)
82. • Underside Couching
83. Vandyke Stitch
84. Vandyke Stitch
    Victorian Tufting
85. Whipped Back Stitch
86. Woven Picot Stitch
87. Woven Wheel Stitch
88. Wheatear Stitch (Wheat Stitch)
    Whipped Backstitch (see Backstitch, Whipped)
    Whipped Running Stitch
    Woven Filling
    Woven Picot
    Woven Wheel (Spider Web, Woven Circle)
89. • Weave Stitch (Weaving Stitch)
    • Wheatear Stitch
    • Whip Stitch
    • Whipped Backstitch
    • Whipped Blanket Stitch
    • Whipped Chain Stitch
    • Whipped Running Stitch
    • Whipped Satin Stitch
    • Whipped Spider Wheel Stitch
    • Woven Spider Wheel Stitch
    • Woven Star Stitch
90. • Zig Zag Chain Stitch
    • Zigzag Stitch

Embroidery techniques and tips

• Long and Short Stitch for Round Shapes. Learn how to Embroider a Sphere and a Circle
• How to start and end embroidery stitches
• How to transfer a pattern with the lightbox method
• How to transfer embroidery pattern with tissue paper
• How to clean pattern transfer marks from fabric
• Difference between Blanket and Buttonhole stitches

References:
https://www.needlenthread.com/videos#Embroidery-Stitches-A-Z

https://practicalembroidery.eu/stitch-library/