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Yesterday I mentioned my need of more time to get everything done. Well, quite coincidentally yesterday afternoon, a friend passed on something from another friend who had been clearing out her kitchen before moving house to another state. Thyme leaves. More “thyme”. Oh dear. What a terrible pun! 🙁 But do you think it […] I’ve been re-reading the Harry Potter series lately. I think I really could do with one of the Time Turners that Hermione has in their third year, so that she can have hours over again to get more done. Seriously, I think I need to clone myself. For yesterday’s post, I needed to go searching […] Some that I have received (the two lovely ones on the left) and others that I have made Every year I make Christmas decorations as gifts for my husband’s staff, my daughters’ teachers and instructors, and for some special people. It usually ends up that I need to make between 10 and 20, […] Yesterday I did some more work on the Christmas ornament that I am making for The Gift of Stitching‘s Christmas ornament issue. I have used some of Stitches and Spice’s gorgeous single ply silk with counted thread embroidery. When I first saw this silk at the craft show in June, I fell in love with […] In Australia, we are fortunate to have an excellent selection of needlework magazines to inspire us. In terms of hand embroidery alone, I can think of Inspirations, Embroidery and Cross Stitch, The Gift of Stitching, Embellish, Homespun, Creating Country Threads, Handmade, Jill Oxton’s Cross Stitch and Beading, Australian Smocking and Embroidery… and there’s more, I’m […] Yesterday I read an article on visual-spatial learners. The opposite to visual-spatial is auditory-sequential. There was one sentence about visual-spatial learners which, as a writer of step-by-step books, jumped out at me: They are non-sequential, which means that they do not learn in the step-by-step manner in which most teachers teach. Ok, so how many […] 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 […] 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 […] 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 […] 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 […] |
White Threads is the blog of Yvette Stanton, the author, designer, publisher behind Vetty Creations' quality needlework books and embroidery products.
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