Last Updated on May 28, 2024 by wajeeha khan
There are so many different stitches in the world of embroidery! There are many ways to use embroidery to create! Let’s Look at Lettering in Embroidery.
With embroidery, you can express your favorite sayings, aspirations, and motivational messages – or even the opposite – in a humorous way. You can add embroidered words, phrases and names to large projects such as quilts, towels, samplers and decorative pillows. You can create endless designs using and words.
What are the best stitches for embroidering text? It depends on a number of factors, including the size and design of your project, your words, how you plan to use it, or just the style you prefer. When deciding what stitch to use, you have to consider many factors.
How can I determine which stitches to use and where? It’s all about trial and error. Over time, practice and experience will teach you how to stitch in different situations.
Let’s Look at Lettering in Embroidery
Let’s look at lettering in embroidery to see how it can add personalization to garments and accessories.
Stitching is a great way to practice. This can be done by creating a lettering/text sampler. I did this when I created these lessons on hand embroidered text and lettering many, many years ago.
As a sampler, I did not start out with something “perfectly designed”. My goal was to create some lessons that would demonstrate different types of embroidery stitching you could use to letter.
I sat with graph paper and a pencil. I chose the most generic texts, which I got wrong. I used my own handwriting and doodled a design to be stitched.
You can also do this! You can use a computer font to type out the words in a large size, then print them and trace them.
The topics covered included how to stitch the letters together with sharp points and joins, how to stitch the intersections, how to stitch the curves, and much more.
Backstitch is a simple stitch that produces a clean and distinct lettering style. This is especially useful when you need fine lines.
You can use other stitches, such as the ladder stitch or coral stitch. Other stitches include stem stitch and buttonhole stitch.
In the entire series, I have used a wide variety of embroidery threads to create the letters. This allows you to see that lettering doesn’t just rely on one or two types.
My Mistakes: Learn from Them!
Here’s a quick lesson to help you get started.
When I first worked up the layout of the above lettering sampler, I made a mistake.
The “pangram“, which contains all the letters of the alphabet, is often used to teach typing. I missed the “S” when I wrote “jumped”.
To fix it, I added an “S” to the end of “dogs” so that I got “The quick brown dog jumped over the laziest dogs.” This made the quick-brown fox quite the jumper!
This project is similar to something I did (but worse) this project:
This is a lettering guide that I created for an old Craftsy guest post.
I never even thought about it when I wrote that text. This is the placeholder text that you often see in publishing software, WYSIWYG programs and other similar applications. Filler text fills up spaces to show what the text will look in those spaces. It is not just nonsensical gibberish. is, a Latin text. I did not check the spelling because I was too lazy. I typed “Lorum-ipsum” when it should have been “lorem-ipsum.”
Learn from me!!!! Both of these lessons are good examples to show how important it can be to proofread and double-check your text before embroidering it.
Examples of Embroidered Text
Here is a small bookmark I made with some text:
The red and white whipped backstitch was used to embroider the front of the bookmark which reads Save this Spot.
The fabric on the back of the bookmark had a red and white polka dot pattern. Spotted. Get it? It was a joke. I’m not sure if anyone caught it …)
This is a quick and fun way to use text.
No, I did not finish the sampler.
You can embellish your work with whatever you like, including embroidery stitches.
Have fun!
Here’s a thought:
You can create your own stitched sampler with your favorite quote, framed or interspersed, and some drawn thread borders.
Wouldn’t that be fun?
It would be a lot of fun to do that! Why hadn’t I thought of that?)
What’s Up?
Let’s look at lettering in embroidery as a form of expression that blends tradition with modern design.
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