hi I'm Wendy from shiny happy worldcom and today I'm going to start teaching you some of the stitches that you can use to fill in and opening an embroidery today I'm going to teach you a satin stitch the satin stitch gives you a row just a completely filled in area of flat stitches straight stitches that are going to go all the way across the space you only want to use this for small spaces and my trick for getting a nice suit smooth satin stitch is I always do a split stitch first around the area that I'm going to use to satin stitch some you won't see that all the time but it's it's not a I didn't come up with this dude it's in it's in some embroidery books but not all of them so I see I did a split stitch all the way around first and then you come up right next to your split stitch on the outside edge and you go down as if you're going all the way across the shape that you're covering then you come up again right next to it and you go down again on the outside edge of that split stitch and that what this split stitch does is it makes your satin stitch nice and puffy gives it some nice dimension you're just going to keep taking long straight stitches right across the surface of the area that you're embroidering you're going to see it start to fill in and it's really going to be beautifully smooth because they are just long straight stitches and that's why it's called a satin stitch because it does give a nice smooth look to it this uses a lot of thread because you're basically satin stitching the back of this as well I've tried coming up again from the bottom right next to it but it kind of seems to throw off the way the stitches lie on the fabric so I do it the right way go in one end and jump over it and then always always come up from the same side of the shape that you're covering and go down on the opposite side so don't try and skimp on your thread here you won't get the nice effect that you're looking for you can see that this is starting to fill in nicely and you can see how the this slits this split stitch all around the edge helps to make it kind of poof out from the surface of the fabric some people will actually split stitch all the inside of it underneath the satin stitch to help battle proof out too but I usually don't find that that's necessary but if you wanted to make Alfie that's certainly something that you could try and some people will just use a back stitch around the edge but it doesn't give me the nice poofiness that the split stitch gives so I always use a split stitch around the edge to start with as a base we don't need to do the entire heart but I've got half of it done here you can see the smoothness of the stitch and the kind of effect that it gives so there you go see it's nice and smooth here and it's just all loose all of your threads tend to blend together into one smooth satiny finish so that's how you do a satin stitch I'm Wendy from shiny happy WorldCom see you next time