The fly stitch is a pretty embroidery stitch that you can add to your floral stitching adventures or embellish seams on clothes. Let them stand alone or create seamless lines of stitches for a lovely decoration. Learn how to do the fly stitch with this tutorial.
This tutorial is part of the new lexicon of embroidery stitches. If you want to learn more about stitching flowers, I highly recommend visiting the flower embroidery series, too.
The fly stitch embroidery tutorial
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The movement of the needle is sometimes hard to get across with a sketch or photograph. Video is a great way for learning embroidery stitches. On my Youtube channel, you can find many more embroidery tutorials. Every Sunday, I publish a brand new embroidery stitch tutorial. To get notified when a new video goes live, subscribe to my Youtube channel and click on the bell right beside the button.
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If you want to see more embroidery stitch tutorials, you might like the embroidery stitch lexicon. You’ll find all 206 photo tutorials there. In addition, it also includes the stitch glossary where you can look for a specific stitch name with their translations and all of the brand new video tutorial posts!
If you are new to embroidery, I highly recommend the 7 days of stitches articles. It is a blog series where you can learn step by step and with a lot of explanations of how to do the most basic embroidery stitches.
Also, the beginner’s guide to embroidery helps you with all the other stuff like:
- which materials and tools you need
- how to attach the thread to the fabric before and after stitching
- what to do after stitching
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