The invention discloses a crewel embroidery method and belongs to the technical field of embroidery technologies. According to the embroidering method, on the same embroidery base cloth, according to demands of patterns on the base cloth, a treetop stitch method or plaited stitch method or triangular stitch method or mixed application of two of the stitch methods is adopted. In this way, the defect that traditional crewel embroidery is single, so that an embroidery is restrictive and inflexible is overcome, and the embroidery can be displayed more livelily; according to a reference object, all kinds of silk threads are stitched through the stitch methods to embroider a three-dimensional embroidery, stitch supplementing can be performed at any time without affecting the embroidery effect, and the embroidery method is flexible and diversified.