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Any time you want an area of solid stitching in embroidery, you use what’s called a fill stitch. I usually recommend satin stitch for beginners, but that only works for smallish areas, and it has a very particular smooth texture that might not be the look you’re after.

There are thousands of available embroidery stitches – these are just the ones I use in my own work, and that I recommend in my patterns.

Here are all my lessons for fill stitches (besides satin stitch).

• satin stitch
• satin stitching points
• seed stitch
• long & short stitch
• split stitch used as a fill stitch
• Turkey work
• using colored pencils or crayons with embroidery

Return to the Learn to Embroider main Table of Contents.

Move on to the lessons for all the other stitches.