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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 […] 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) […] 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 […] 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, […] 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 […] The other day we were listening to a choral work on the radio. As I listened, I tried to fathom how anyone could write such music (I cannot read music, though I very much enjoy singing). With all those voices coming in at different spots, singing different things, how could anyone conceive of that? In […] My husband brought the local newspaper in from the letterbox on Thursday morning. As I ate my breakfast, I paged through it. A little way in, (definitely further than page 3…) I was shocked to turn the page and find myself smiling back at me! A long-lost article about me and my left-handed stitch dictionary […] Yesterday my brain was having some down time – I was tired, ok! – so I decided to do something pretty brainless. The day before I had used some of the gorgeous single ply silk from Stitches and Spice on my exhibition embroidery. It was LOVELY to work with, but I was a bit scared […] I’ve decided to enter an embroidery in an exhibition. The Embroiderers’ Guild of NSW, of which I am a member, is having an exhibition called “Stitch + Stitch = Magic” in September. Its focus is contemporary, innovative embroidery and design. The entry forms have to be in by tomorrow, Friday, so I posted mine off […] |
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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