What kind of fabric should you use for hand embroidery?
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Which embroidery floss is best?


Which embroidery supplies should you bring with you on a long road trip?


Adding embellishments to your embroidery projects using air-erasable fabric pens


How to use air-erasable fabric pens for hand embroidery


Double cross stitch for hand embroidery


Transferring an embroidery design onto fabric with a blue water-erasable pen


How to back (or finish) an embroidery hoop with running stitch


How to hand embroider simple butterflies using detached chain and straight stitches


Optional supplies for hand embroidery


French knots for left-handed stitchers


Cross-stitch


How to transfer an embroidery design to fabric using washable transfer paper

How to close a circle of whipped back stitch


Creating the snake plant hoop for the January 2022 Hopebroidery Box

Fly stitch


How to separate strands of embroidery floss


How to use an embroidery hoop


Gentle blending for hand embroidery: Blending two shades of the same color


Ray stitch