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A few years ago, we visited friends for a week. The husband is a gynaecologist and sometimes videos himself operating, for later reference. He wanted to show us some of his videos. Not surprisingly, we declined that opportunity! We did joke about comparing stitching techniques though. Yesterday afternoon we were relaxing at home. I was […] On Monday evening I went to the opening of the Stitch+Stitch=Magic exhibition at Craft NSW, in The Rocks, Sydney. My embroidery “Coloured Contours” is part of the exhibition. As part of the rules, it was not allowed to be previously published, and to me that meant I couldn’t show it to you here on my […] I made it my aim to finish the buttonhole stitching on the Mountmellick embroidery stitch along cushion yesterday, and I did! It was a bit of a squeeze to get it finished before our evening’s activities, but it is now done. I thought that it might be useful to explain how I end my buttonhole […] 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 […] 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 is the new version of the embroidery. I finished the red wiggly chain stitching. I can live […] 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 […] 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 […] 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, […] |
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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