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Sometimes, people who have never seen Mountmellick embroidery before have some trouble understanding what makes Mountmellick embroidery distinctively its own style. I know I did, when I first started learning about it! Because Mountmellick embroidery is a traditional style of embroidery, by studying historical examples, we can come to an understanding of what it really [...] Today I want to focus on a small discussion that one of our stitch along participants and I have had over the last week. SJ had said that she was making good progress on her stitch along embroidery, but she wasn’t happy with her buttonhole stitch. Without being able to see her buttonholing, there was one [...] What’s the difference between cable plait stitch and plaited braid stitch?
cable plait stitch This is cable plait stitch. It is the stitch used in Mountmellick embroidery. It is a reasonably simple stitch, with only a few steps. Also known as figure of eight stitch to the ladies of Mountmellick, because that’s what each stitch looks [...] Now we move on to the uppermost pair of leaves, just below the lily flower bud. I have ummed and aahed about how to work these leaves. I really want to use a filling that fills without having an edging. All our other shapes so far have an edging around them, so I really would prefer [...] I mentioned in my last Mountmellick embroidery stitch along post that I wasn’t entirely happy with the way the stitches sat on the lower left side of the leaf. I wondered if I’d be happy leaving it like that. Of course the answer is “of course not!” When I drew lines on the picture so I [...] Because I have set you the challenge of thinking about your favourite stitches, I have been considering what mine are. Its not so terribly easy, is it?! So the easiest thing for me to do was to look through my left and right-handed stitch dictionaries. So here’s my list: up and down buttonhole stitch (p28) – there’s [...] It seems that from our Mountmellick embroidery stitch along, some people have discovered the beauty of cable plait stitch for the first time. Its been a favourite of mine for some time because it is so very pretty. cable plait stitch I discovered all sorts of weird and wonderful stitches while researching and putting together my [...] Just hopping up on my soapbox here. “Sharing” patterns is not sharing. It is stealing. Pure and simple. It happens all over this industry, and that makes many of us very sad, and even angry. Here is an explanation of why it hurts designers, and ultimately hurts everyone including the stitchers who are completely honorable, who [...] I was working on my exhibition embroidery recently and decided to test something that I had been wondering about. I had been pondering what would happen if you worked a feather stitch, stab-wise (ie, not scooping), but instead of just bringing the needle up inside the curve of working thread, you wrapped the thread round [...] Recently I have received several emails from people expressing their desire for more merezhka patterns as a follow on from my book Ukrainian Drawn Thread Embroidery: Merezhka Poltavska. I would love to be able to do something about this, but I am really battling with the fact that there is still just one of me! [...] |
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