Embroidery Tips: Beginnings & Finishings

When starting embroidery, make a few small running stitches along the line to be embroidered, then make one back stitch. (No knots should appear on the wrong side of work.)

When the thread becomes too short, acquires a fuzz or untwists, finish it off as follows:

• Draw thread to wrong side of work, weave needle in and out of the stitches of the completed embroidery, then cut the thread close to work.

The wrong side of work should be as neat as the right side, therefore do not carry thread from one design to another.

Source:
Coats & Clark’s Book No. 144
Learn How to Embroider (1963)

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