Primrose Design has been posting a “Stitch School” series of embroidery stitches. The most recent ones are herringbone stitch and feather stitch. (Links to the previous 9 are listed on her sidebar.) They are very clearly illustrated with photos of each step.
Some cool examples of stitches in action coming out of The Red Button Tree’s embroidered patch swap:
bird patch by Kleas
these sweeties at ruby crowned kinglette
and embroidered paisley by futuregirl
eta: Whoops, forgot one of my favorites, crafty mcgee’s orangework.
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Thanks for the mention and links! I just posted my 12th lesson—cross stitch—and plan to continue until I run out of stitches. There are dozens (if not hundreds) of them so this might go on for a while :)
I have a pattern that calls for a “twisted sdtraight stitch.” I cannot find this stitch illustrated on any website on in my book of stitches. Can you help me with this?