Embroidery 101: How to Embroider Seed Stitch

Are you ready to dive into the enchanting world of hand embroidery? Join us on this exciting journey as Natalie, a passionate embroidery enthusiast, guides beginners through the fundamentals of this timeless craft. Whether you are new to embroidery or looking to master a different stitch, this series can help enhance your craft and have you stitching like a pro in no time! Today’s video will cover how to embroider a seed stitch.

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Natalie Doan

Natalie is the host of Quilting 101, Embroidery 101 and the Creative Strategist and Editor of Block Magazine at Missouri Star Quilt Company. She was taught how to sew by her mom, of course, and began quilting when she grew up.

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[Music] hi everybody I'm Natalie with Missouri Star Quilt Company and today on embroidery 101 we're going to learn this seed Stitch I'm also going to show you double seed Stitch which is essentially the same thing but two Little Stitches side by side so we'll start with our thread our embroidery floss with a knot in the bottom and we'll come up for underneath the fabric you're just going to make tiny little short stitches and you can keep these connected put a whole bunch of them together so the the one that I just did was the single stitch it's super easy you come up from the bottom and then go back down and then for double seed you're going to just do two p uh two Little Stitches side by side this is a great filler it looks a little bit like confetti or like sprinkles on a little doughnut they're super cute but very easy to do a great beginner stitch for when you're wanting to add embellishments to your projects that look really cute so let's go ahead and do a zoom in on this all right so you're just going to come up from underneath the fabric and make a little Stitch as long or as short as you'd like like them to be for single you do one for double you do two side by side super super fun and simple I think it looks really cute when you use multiple colors but it also would make a great like um in it in single color it looks good too just as a filler or anything really cute and I just keep on making them and fill up that space okay so on this finished sampler that I did you can see I used a lot of different colors here and did some Single Seed stitches and I think it looks really cute it's a really fun embellishment for clothing or uh embellishing quilts any any fun project that you want to make with seat Stitch I think you'll really enjoy it it's super fast and fun if you enjoyed this video there's lots more where that came from I have a whole Channel called embroidery 101 where I teach you what you need to know to get started and also give you tons of tips and ideas to refresh your memory and help you to advance in your embroidery Journey so click the link below and I hope you enjoy happy stitching