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Embroidery 101: How to Sew a Fly Stitch

Threads seamstress Norma Bucko demonstrates how to create a basic embroidery stitches: the fly stitch.

The fly stitch can be combined with other embroidery stitches to create decorative designs.

Check out these additional videos on embroidery stitching:

How to Sew a Blanket Stitch

How to Sew a Couching Stitch

How to Sew a Web Stitch

In Threads #186, Aug./Sept. 2016, author India Hayford explores Yemenite Jewish hand embroidery and shows how to combine simple stitches to create complex designs.

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Hand embroidery is a traditional embellishment technique that is within the reach of any sewer. Watch to learn how to create the five basic embroidery stitches, chainstitch, fly stitch, blanket stitch, couching stitch, and web stitch. These five can be combined with each other to create decorative designs. Click on the video links below that walk through making each of the stitches. For additional information and inspiration, see Yemenite Jewish hand embroidery by India Hayford in…

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  1. sewinglady | | #1

    Your videos lack clarity...stitcher's hands often cover the stitches as she works. You should take some lessons from Mary Corbett's Needle n Thread series which is top quality....far above stitch videos you have produced.

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