Today I’m off to Springwood to teach a merezhka class all day. It should be a great day. Springwood is about 1 1/2-2 hours on the train from where I live, so I’m taking my latest Mountmellick embroidery project with me, and hopefully I will get a lot done!
In the class we’re going to be learning the small scale merezhka technique, and making a small square panel of the embroidery. It could be framed or made into a needlecase, or applied to a bag. You could even mount it as the centre panel on a cushion. Lots of things you could do with it!
If you’d like to learn this technique, you can find it in my book Ukrainian Drawn Thread Embroidery. It has clear step by step instructions, which have text, a diagram and a photo, to make it very clear about what you should be doing for each step. Many people comment on this threefold method of instruction when they review the book, because it is unusual, and works so well.
I know that I’m going to have a fun day. I hope you do too. 🙂
White Threads is the blog of Yvette Stanton, the author, designer, publisher behind Vetty Creations' quality needlework books and embroidery products.
I think, I should buy this book. And I think about this every time, whenever you write about merezhka. Here in Lithuania we also have stitching, which in some dialects is called merezhka (and in Polish the same word exists). But in our traditional stitching it is a little bit different. It is very interesting, how stitching, having the same name, vary in different countries, which few hundreds years ago were in one state.
Merezhka is the Ukrainian term for drawn thread work, and there are many different types within Ukraine. Is that what it refers to in Lithuanian (and Polish?)