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Embroidery Stitches and Techniques for Beginners to Advance Level

List of Embroidery Stitches in Alphabetical Order from A-Z
  1. Alternating Chain Stitch (see Chain stitch, Alternating. Also called Checkered Chain, Two-Colored Chain, Magic Chain Stitch)
  2. Back Stitch
  3. Basket Stitch
  4. Basque Stitch
  5. Blanket Stitch
  6. Bonnet Stitch
  7. Braided Chain Stitch
  8. Bullion Knot Stitch
  9. 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
  10. Cable Chain Stitch
  11. Cable On Stitch
  12. Cable Plait Stitch
  13. Chain Stitch
  14. Chevron Stitch
  15. Couching Stitch
  16. Crested Chain Stitch
  17. Cretan Stitch
  18. Cross Stitch
  19. Cross Buttonhole Stitch
  20. 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

  21. Double Chain Stitch
  22. Double Cross Stitch
  23. Drizzle Stitch
  24. 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
  25. Feather Stitch
  26. Fishbone Stitch
  27. Fly Stitch
  28. French Knot
  29. 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)
  30. Ghiordes Knot (Turkey Work)
    Granitos
    Guilloche Stitch
  31. Heavy Chain Stitch
  32. Herringbone Stitch
  33. 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)
  34. Knotted Diamond Stitch
  35. Knotted Loop Stitch
  36. Knotted Stem Stitch
  37. Knotted Diamond Stitch (see Diamond Stitch)
    Knotted Pearl Stitch (Reverse Palestrina Stitch)
  38. Ladder Stitch
  39. Lazy Daisy Stitch
  40. Long and Short Stitch
  41. Laced Backstitch
    Laced Running Stitch
    Ladder Stitch
    Lattice (Lattice Work, Lattice Stitch)
    Laying Tool (How to use one)
    Long & Short Stitch
  42. Mountmellick Stitch
  43. Mountmellick Thorn Stitch
  44. 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
  45. Palestrina Knot Stitch
  46. Pekinese Stitch
  47. 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
  48. Rosette Chain Stitch
  49. Running Stitch
  50. 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
  51. Satin Stitch
  52. Scroll Stitch
  53. Sheaf Stitch
  54. Shell Stitch
  55. Sorbello Stitch
  56. Spiderweb Stitch
  57. Split Stitch
  58. Stem Stitch
  59. 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
  60. Twisted Chain Stitch
  61. 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
  62. Up & Down Buttonhole Stitch (see Buttonhole, Up & Down)
  63. Vandyke Stitch
  64. Vandyke Stitch
    Victorian Tufting
  65. Whipped Back Stitch
  66. Woven Picot Stitch
  67. Woven Wheel Stitch
  68. Wheatear Stitch (Wheat Stitch)
    Whipped Backstitch (see Backstitch, Whipped)
    Whipped Running Stitch
    Woven Filling
    Woven Picot
    Woven Wheel (Spider Web, Woven Circle)

Embroidery techniques and tips

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

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