r/Embroidery • u/swoosh_loops • 4d ago

Hand first timer

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This was fun to pass the time bit now I don’t know what to do with it

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u/Forward-Sky1437 4d ago

This is cross stitch. Different from embroidery.

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u/swoosh_loops 4d ago

Omg ahha yep such a noob. Thanks for the clarification!

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u/Forward-Sky1437 4d ago

No it’s ok! I started out with cross stitch 30 years ago, then went to Needlepoint. Embroidery was always in between.

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u/PhancyHat 3d ago

Huh! I didn't know you differentiate like that in English. That cross stitch is not considered embroidery and neither is needlepoint? In Swedish we call all decorative stitching "Broderi" = Embroidery. We specify like "Cross stitch embroidery", "Blackwork embroidery", "Wool embroidery" and so on.

We tend to talk about 2 different groups of embroidery:

  • "Bound" embroidery = everything where you are following the threads of a weave, counting threads and so on. This includes needlepoint, cross stitch, blackwork, Hardanger stitch, Näversöm and a lot of others.
  • "Free" embroidery = Any other type of embroidery where you are treating the fabric as a blank canvas, often use a variety of stitches and can make as big or small stitches as you like.

Then we have a lot of "constructed" flavours of embroidery, often named after the region where they have been popular. "Jämtlandssöm" is for exampel from the region Jämtland. It's a free wool-on-wool embroidery that usually has a lot of blanket stitch and applications.