Specific stitches to use for hand-sewing

Regular seams

• Partial backstitch, AKA spaced backstitch, AKA half backstitch — [1] [2] [3] [4]
• Running stitch, AKA straight stitch — [1] [2] [2b]
• Flat-felled stitch
• (list of others)

Beginning or ending a stitch

• Anchoring a thread — [1] [2]
  • ...and then burying the tail — [1]
• The loop method that produces no knot.

Dealing with raw edges

As part of doing a regular seam

Seam finishing [2], with no hem

• Blanket stitch [wiki]
• Whip stitch, AKA the overcast stitch [wiki]
• Flat-felled seam [wiki]
  • by Sewn Company / Sarah Woodyard:
    • Hemming Stitch, aka Felling
    • (MOVE) Hand Sew A Backstitched Flat-Felled Seam
    • (MOVE) Another Way To Hand Sew A Flat-Felled Seam
  • by Burnley and Trowbridge Co.
  • (MOVE?) by Thimble and Plume, historical costumers
• Overlock stitch, AKA the serger imitator [wiki]
• Bias-bound seams

Seam finishing, as part of a hem

• Whip stitch

Resources

• List of sewing stitches § Hand stitches | Wikipedia