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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 [...] Yesterday I showed you the beginnings of a gift for a friend. At the time I wasn’t very happy with it, and suspected that I would end up taking out most of the stitching. And I did! This weekend we’ll be celebrating a good friend’s 50th birthday. (Carina, if you are reading this, stop now!) I would like to make her a gift because she’s special! She likes bright colours. My first thought was “Oh dear, I don’t do bright coloured embroidery.” I was envisioning garish brightly coloured Hardanger! But then I realised, [...] Today I traced the buttonhole cushion edge and the edge of the cushion pattern itself onto my fabric (you will have done this at the beginning). It matched up pretty well with my stitched bits, so I was pleased about that! I have started stitching. I wasn’t sure whether to stitch clockwise or anticlockwise, (with the [...] Well. I’m still a bit bereft of ideas for how to work the lily bud. Looking at the whole design, I think it needs to be a thin outline (perhaps), with a light filling. This is because the other parts of the design that are nearby have either wide outlines or are completely filled. The [...] Back to the opening lily flower. I’ve filled the central petal with some feather stitch. I left a small gap inside the cable plait stitch outline, then starting at the tip, worked down the petal. If I started at the bottom, the feather stitch would look upside-down! Because the width of the petal changes, the [...] Today we are heading back to our very first flower, in this Mountmellick embroidery stitch along. My intention was always to put some filling in these petals. If we remember the photos of the lilies that I had right near the beginning of the stitch along, you may have noticed that lilies often have some [...] 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 [...] |
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