A neat and tidy way to start and finish your embroidery stitches professionally! No more knots! 

Hello! I’m 15 years old, and I just decided to start embroidery as a hobby. 😁 I just wanted to tell you that your videos have been so very helpful to me. Thank you, and God bless you!!

Who says old needlewomen can't learn new tricks? This is a very useful technique and you explain every step so clearly.

Thank you, you're a genius! 👏

For years I had lots of little knots in the back of my work, most unattractive. Nice to know a neater way to start and end my embroidery stitches.

I've been embroidering forever (self-taught), but have never learned these basics. Thank you!

Thank you so much for your videos!! They have improved my work SO much after just watching this video and the video about keeping the back neat. Thank you thank you!!! Can’t wait to learn more from you.

Best technique ever, thank you!!!

Oh Sarah. I’m so happy to know this. No more knots on my embroidery from now on! Thank you.

Oh my goodness! I am so glad I found your channel! I'm still very much a beginner and these videos have been SO VERY HELPFUL!

Thank you for the amazing tutorial for this! I like how you zoomed in on the fabric so that we can see what you are doing clearly!

Thank you, Sarah. Clear and concise.

Thank you very much for sharing your skills, it was very helpful!❤

This was so helpful. My grandmother taught me to weave both the starting and finishing threads with a tiny crochet hook, and I am so glad to see this simpler method. You will be seeing my name in the comments a lot because I am watching as many of your tutorials daily as I can. I am getting ready to do a vintage style dresser scarf for my granddaughter's hope chest. I have not embroidered for about 10 years, and I am very rusty! Thank you

Love that, thank you…that will keep my thread safe from being undone…much appreciated, Mia

This is brilliant. It's really difficult to tie a knot that's close to the hoop and now I never will bother with that again.

I've seen this method before but I didn't understand it at all, and I'm mad at the algorithm that didn't show me your videos sooner 😩 Your explanation is very clear, thank you so much for sharing the knowledge ❤️

Hi Sarah, I’m really enjoying the tutorials. I started in bordering when I was 13 and I’m now 71. I love to hand embroidery and I also hand quilt my quilt. Keep the great tutorials coming, even though I am learning new tricks and techniques.

I have been doing some form of embroidery off and on for 70 years, and I never knew this technique. Thank you so much!!!!!🥰

Your videos are excellent. Very clear explanations without waffling. Thank you.

I recently learned a new-to-me method for securing threads. You line your working fabric with an even but very loosely woven muslin. Treat both fabrics as one when hooping, then you can run your thread ends *between* the layers. I got this fabric in a kit from south Africa. I've never seen it here in the US but I'd love to find it locally. The backing is light enough that it doesn't affect the needle going thru.

You are the best your voice is so clear and I understand it so well thank you 💙am a beginner and am learning a lot

this is so so helpful, im so glad i found this! im embroidering a button down for my boyfriend and this was perfect, very clear and precise teaching

Wonderful share. I've always considered the knots ugly on needlework that takes many hours to complete. Thank you.

I'm just getting back into embroidery after many years. The back of my work has aways been so sloppy. Oh my goodness how this technique has made a difference!!! Love your videos. I'm relearning the stitches my grandmother taught me, plus some new ones, thanks to your videos. I really appreciate your channel and have subscribed. Happy stitching! 😊

I love the way you explain things. Thank you.

I really like the way it can be done entirely from the front. Thank you !

Thanks!

Refresh…been away from embroidery…in my way to coming back 😃🙏🏽🙋🏻‍♀️👍🏽

I just love your videos - you explain them so beautifully and clearly ! I’m new to embroidery so these are helping so much. I love how you can see close up shots - just truly impressed ! 😁🤗👍🏼👏🏼

Whatever knowledge and experience you share with us is priceless. So, thank you so much. I am really grateful to you🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹🌹. You can count me as one of your apprentices because I really learn a lot from you and consider you as my teacher. 26.03.2022, 1:13 a.m

Thanks for this tutorial. I've always wondered how to start and end my work as neatly as possible. This helps a lot.

Clear and concise. Hopefully the back of my embroidery will be much neater now. 🙏❤️

Sarah you are wonderful! I just discovered your channel and joined your Patron channel. I love your videos and can’t wait to watch more? Thanks for sharing this! It’s always been a conundrum for me. 😊

I am on coronavirus lockdown day 6 and I started stitching on a printed canvas. I honestly thank you so much. You are a nice person who explains everything for novices like me. Much love from Athens, Greece 💙

Your videos are so helpful to learners like me.

Sarah when you do your two stab stitches at the end, won't they come out when you have to embroider over them or through them in another colour etc? You know when you just have to go into that stitch when doing other embroidery?

Hi Sarah, like all your videos, you explain everything so patiently. Learnt a lot from you. Thanks for sharing you experience with us.

Thank you it really helped my sewing project😂

Thank you!

I love your tutorials and am so happy i found your channel!!!

You did this in the butterfly for beginner project. Got it.

I haven't seen this technique for starting and finishing embroidery but I love it. So much easier. Thanks for a wonderful video and such clear explanations.

Thank you for this video, it is exactly what I needed today!

You're amazing thank you so much!!

thank you. I watched one of your videos showing how to wrap the hoop. I will do this. I cannot afford your clamp to hold the hoop or frame but I really enjoy your videos. thank you for sharing.

Your videos are a treasure. Are you using the type of yarn which we use in crochet and tricot?

it is very useful. I will always count on you

Brilliant! I have learned so much!

Thank you! Very useful video

Vow great tutorial thanks 😊

Thank you Sarah! Your video was very helpful. I will be using your method from now on!😃

Thank you! That’s very helpful!

Hi, I've never learned how to hand embroider and would love to learn. My question is this, the floss here (USA) is the 6 threads in one. I have never come across anything that tells you how many threads to use. I saw in one of your videos where you separated 3 threads to thread thru the size needle you selected, does it depend on the stitch you are about do? Also, the kits I've seen show you the color to use, but unless I missed it, nothing regarding the stitch for that particular area. This has been the reason that I have not encouraged myself towards it. I love how you explain and demonstrate everything on here. Thank You Kindly and I have subscribed for sure... who knows, I might still learn at this age.

it's so neat and tight. I aspire to make stitches like you.

Hi very nice lesson you efforts are very honest and helpful to us 👍👌❤

Sarah: I am a beginner who just loves doing embroidery especially as it distracts me from this lockdown. I have carpel tunnel and was wondering if you have some advice on correct positioning or any assistive devices to avoid further flare. I only embroider every third day to rest but would certainly like to keep going. You are a doll and I have learned so much from you. Particularly as I find you very encouraging. I aim for perfection but fall short and you have eased that tendency in me. Thank you.

Madam,this is very useful lesson,thank you.

Thank you ever so much, my work will look so much better now!

Hmmmm good to know👍

Thank you. Great tutorial and great filming.

thanks for a very helpful video..

Beautiful 💖

Thank you so much... JUST the video I needed to know exactly what to do... And may I say how very clearly presented aswell... So thank you once again :)

Hi Sarah, thanks for the explaining. It ist really good. I have two questions: Is this method also be safe if I will wash the piece after embroidery? I sometimes stitches on my daughter's clothes and they have to be washed again and again. The second question is if this method is safe if the thread on the backside is not really covered by other stitches. I have learned another method that functions if you have an even number of threads: you take half of the needed number of threads in the double length, clup both ends up and put them through the needle eye so that you have a loop on the end of the thread. Then you make a stich from the back to the front, but you do not pull the thread through completely. After this you stitch from front to back, pull the thread through the loop oft the thread and then you set tight (I hope you understand my explanation). I think this method would be safer because you have all threads fixed on the back (without a knot), but unfortunately it functions only with an even number of threads needed.

Very helpful. Thank you. I noticed that the thread was making a pretty noticeable noise going through, but I thought you advised against that in another video. Is that because this is crewel or is there some other reason you are allowing that here?

Thank you very much for this video! It is really helpful!

Thank you so much. That is really helpful.

Hi, I noticed you have someone who had a request in Spanish. I've taken the liberty to translate for her. : Chita Duran 2 years ago me encantan sus tutoriales, por favor quisiera saber como hago el plumaje de pajaritos bordasos Dios me la bendiga "I love your tutorials, please I would like to know how to do the plumage of the embroidered birds. GOD Bless you."

Newbie embroider. How would you use this technique if starting with a french knot instead of a line? How would you hide your "stab stitches" under the French knot? Thanks!

Hi Sarah 😊 May I ask, do you suggest starting a certain place on the embroidery design when beginning a project? If so do you have a video that covers that? Should I start in the center and work out or does it matter? Thank you!

Very useful, thanks!

me encantan sus tutoriales, por favor quisiera saber como hago el plumaje de pajaritos bordasos Dios me la bendiga

Thank you for showing the finishing off of the stitching on the back of the work. I do only tea towels on very good cotton, will this finishing work for fabric that will be laundered many times?

Talented and witty. Tidy! Lol

I'm wondering, does this keep the thread secure also for clothing that will be washed often? Somehow knots seam more secure?

Thanks for this good explanation! Very interesting! But I have one more question: the starting knot is more or less 3 cm from the 2 little stitches to start with. When you cut off the knot, don't you have a piece of thread from 3 cm on the back that is lose? Do you weave it in or do you cut it off again at the back, near the 2 little stitches? Thanks for helping me.

Thank you, this is very well explained for beginners, but how is the little bit of thread from the knot you cut not dangling at the back? There should be a little bit of thread between the knot and the starting stitch, or are you cutting that little bit of thread too? 😭

Thank you for this ❤

I watched this video and remembered that I was taught this way in German high school but had forgotten about it. Thank you for reminding me. 🤣🤣

Hey Sarah, would you recommend this way to start and end stitches for embroiding clothing as well?

I’ve just begun a thread journal today and I am using your starting and stopping method. It seems brilliant, thank you. Can you tell me, please, if after you cut off the waste knot, do you cut the now loose end at the back of your work? I don’t see you do this but when you turn your piece over, there don’t appear to be the loose tails anywhere. Many thanks Marina

Hello, I’ve been learning so much from your tutorials! Can you please tell me if this method of starting and finishing is suitable for an item the will be laundered, such as a flour sack towel? Thank you!

Will this be secure enough when you embroider on clothes which will be washed regularly?

Thank you so much it was really useful. Can I use this technique for beads embroidery on tulle? Tulle is more slippery than other fabrics with bigger holes

I understood. You look like the mom from freaky Friday movie. You beautiful ❤

Also, can you explain how those 2 threads can secure the embroidered threads from unraveled?

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Hi, will the threads stay in place if the item is washed? Like f I was doing a dish towel?

Would this hold if a shirt was put in the washing machine?

What is the best material for embroidery? Is it casement?

I think you mean, "How to begin a stitch." I'm trying to find information about how to find the beginning of the floss. I can't find anyone explaining how to find the beginning and end of the thread, or yarn, or floss, but all of these have a beginning and an end. With embroidery floss, if one runs it between their thumb and finger, it is possible to feel the, "grain;" I think that's what it is called. It matters which end one pulls through the needle, to begin, because the embroiderer, is going to pull that floss through the fabric, either against the grain of the floss (which is not good for the floss), or with the grain, so that it moves smoothly through the fabric, without friction against the floss. I watched several youtube videos also, and none so far have explained this, though they are teaching how to wind floss onto bobbins, how to pull skeins apart, etc. Personally, I like to wind bobbins, so that when I pull the floss off of the bobbin, it is coming off with the smooth grain leading, i.e., the end coming off the bobbin first, is the end I will put through the needle. Thank you for the tutorial.

Hi Sarah! You’re videos are awesome. I am curious what happens with the little tail that is left behind on the back once the waste knot is cut. It’s probably too short to weave in on the back. So are those threads threads left dangling?

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Thank you for this amazing video! Could you use this method when embroidering on tulle?

what embroidery stand are you using! I saw this one too in a newer video, didnt i? I am so looking for one with two "holders".

Sarah, what kind of a table stand are you using?

How you know where to put the knot; and when to cut it off? A!so can yo explain n

Is this secure enough for embroidery on clothes that will be washed?

I’m new to embroidery and just finished my first piece. Instructions said to place the piece in room temperature water for 5 minutes or so until the lines disappear, then to rinse the work and hang to dry. Did all that. Next morning in preparation of going to the store to have it framed, I ironed the piece (although I didn’t get all the lines from the hoop out even though the iron was pretty hot and I had it on steam - do you know why?). I unrolled the piece and laid it on the counter when I noticed a “wash” of the water soluble dye all over the piece! I could not believe what I was seeing! All we could think was that some sort of reaction took place when we ironed it. Any comments? What should we try next?