What types of stitching are there?
An embroidered design is made up of 3 major stitches types: Satin Stitch, Fill Stitch, and Run Stitch. Satin stitches are essentially columns of stitches used for making letters, borders, and areas of a design that need columns of stitches. Satin stitch sizes can go from approximately 1/16th of an inch wide to .25 inches wide. Rarely do you want to go wider than .25 inches because of the risk of “picking” the stitches of the finished design. The Fill Stitch is used for filling in larger areas of the design. Fill stitches can also be used for lettering and large column areas when it is too large to use a satin stitch. Run stitches are single lines of stitches primarily used for thin outlines or borders, and for connecting individual elements of the design.
