Filling embroidery stitches

Burden stitch is a lovely stitch for filling areas of your embroidery. It creates a good texture and can be stitched in different ways to mix this up.

Brick Stitch This is one of the simplest ways to fill a space. Brick stitch is done by stitching staggered lines of back stitch side by side. So once you know your back stitch you're good to go! Similarly, many line stitches (stem, chain, split) can be placed side by side to fill a space.Satin Stitch Another simple but very effective way to fill a small area. Long straight stitches are laid side by side to give a cohesive block of colour. The fewer threads used here the better, as they lie…

Once you’ve mastered the fundamental outline stitches, it’s time to move on to the fill stitches! Satin stitch is the most basic and widely used stitch, whereas long and short stitch is…

My default stitch for when I need to fill an area in an embroidery pattern is satin stitch but I don’t particularly enjoy stitching it so I’ve been enjoying trying out a range of different filling stitches.

Learn how to stitch fly stitch. A stitch that can be used as a filling stitch, a decorative line and a stand alone stitch. Pretty versatile!

Learn how to fill the parts of embroidery design with texture and color with these six embroidery stitches: Seed stitch, French knots, Long and short stitch, Satin stitch, Weave stitch and Chain stitch filling. Click to watch video tutorial now or Pin for later.

Learn how to embroidery for beginners with this basic guide including a super video lesson that will help you get started with this wonderful craft.

Here are 9 of my go-to hand embroidery stitches for filling in spaces, step-by-step instructions, and examples.