Compiled by the expert team at Country Bumpkin, renowned Australian publishers of embroidery books and magazines.

4 welcome *a fabric *a beginning and ending thread *a transferring designs *a needles 8 Algerian Eye Stitch 9 Arrowhead stitch 9 Back stitch 10 Blanket stitch *a pinwheel *a double *a detached *a detached twisted *a long and short *a looped *a scallops 17 Braid stitch 18 Bullion knot *a rose with bullion centre *a Susan O'Connor rose *a rosebuds *a rose with padded satin centre *a bears *a bow *a detached chain combination 31 Buttonhole stitch 32 Cast-on stitch *a rose 34 Chain stitch *a twisted *a alternating *a whipped *a interlaced *a open *a rosette *a rose 40 Chinese knot 41 Colonial knot 42 Combination stitch *a apple blossom flower *a bud 44 Concertina rose 45 Coral stitch 46 Couching *a bow *a Bokhara *a lattice *a Roumanian *a trellis 51 Cretan stitch 52 Cross stitch *a long armed *a straight stitch combination 54 Crow!AZs foot 55 Cutwork embroidery 56 Danish knot 57 Detached chain *a flowers *a French knot combination flower *a blanket stitch combination 59 Detached wheatear stitch 60 Drizzle stitch *a flower 61 Ermine filling stitch 62 Eyelets *a flowers *a shaped 64 Faggoting 65 Feather stitch *a closed *a double and triple variations *a single *a Spanish knotted 70 Fishbone stitch *a raised 72 Fly stitch *a twisted *a leaf 74 Folded Ribbon rose *a rosebud 76 Four-legged knot stitch 77 French knot *a ribbon flower 79 Gathered rose 80 Ghiordes knot 81 Glove stitch 81 Grab stitch with ribbon bud 82 Granitos 82 Hem stitch *a antique *a serpentine 85 Herringbone stitch *a double 86 Holbein stitch 87 Laid work 88 Long and short stitch 89 Loop stitch *a daisy *a daffodil *a flower *a twisted plumes 93 Needleweaving *a bar *a open base picot *a closed base picot 96 Net stitch 97 Outline stitch 98 Oyster stitch 99 Palestrina stitch 100 Pin stitching 101 Pistil stitch 101 Plume stitch 102 Raised cup stitch 103 Rhodes stitch *a circular 104 threading Ribbon 104 Ribbon stitch *a rose *a water lily 107 Running stitch *a whipped 108 Satin stitch *a bow with split stitch outline *a padded *a padded berries 111 Scroll stitch 111 Seed stitch 112 Shadow work *a double back stitch *a closed herringbone stitch 114 Shadow trapunto 115 Sheaf filling stitch 116 Shisha stitch 118 Smocker!AZs knot 119 Spider web rose 120 Split stitch 120 Split back stitch 121 Sprat!AZs head 122 Star stitch 122 Stem stitch *a encroaching *a whipped *a Portuguese knotted *a raised *a ribbon rose 127 Straight overcast stitch 128 Straight stitch *a flower *a raised 130 Stumpwork berry 131 T te de boeuf Stitch 131 Thorn stitch 132 Thread painting 133 Twirled ribbon rose 134 Wheatear stitch 134 Whipping stitch 135 Whipped stitch rose 136 Wool rose 138 Wound rose 139 Woven filling stitch 140 Zigzag stitch 141 Index 144 Bibliography