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Another book from my bookshelf: “The Constance Howard Book of Stitches” by Constance Howard. This book has been repackaged in recent years with an appealing modern-looking cover. Unfortunately the insides are all still black and white – there was an errata notice in mine saying that the colour plates mentioned were not actually included. I […] Another review of a book from my personal bookshelf: “The Complete Stitch Encyclopedia” by Jan Eaton. This book is an excellent reference for those who want to see a lot of different stitches. It has a wealth of information, and there are surface stitches, counted stitches, insertions and edgings. Each one has their own photograph […] Today I am going to post a review of a book from my bookshelf: “Mary Thomas’s Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches”. This is a book I own and love. In recent years, this book was completely overhauled and revised. Unfortunately I don’t like the new version at all. It looks cheap and nasty, and just doesn’t […] The other day I received an interesting question in one of the comments on bullion stitch: thread twist and wrapping direction. It was from Michael of the delightfully named http://www.wormspit.com. He wrote: I’ve been working with silk and making various kinds of thread for different purposes. So far, most of my threads have been first-twisted […] Today’s look at bullion stitch is the third in the series. The first one was on tips for working better bullion stitch, the second was about thread twist and wrapping direction. Today we will be looking at whether to use a hoop/frame or not. Some people say that you must never use a hoop or […] Okay, today we are going to look at one of the most controversial aspects of bullion stitch (what – you didn’t know there were controversial aspects?!). Thread twist and wrapping direction are completely intertwined. (So sorry, didn’t mean for that to be a pun…) Let’s look at thread twist first. There are two types of […] Thanks to all who have replied to my questions about bullions. I have scattered these questions all over the internet, and from everyone’s responses have put together a collection of great tips. Because I am stuck here in Ethiopia with my little netbook, I can’t give you any diagrams for working bullions, but I have […] I am interested in hearing about the problems that people have with bullion stitch – if any! What goes wrong for you? What bugs you about your bullions? Did you ever have an “a-ha!” moment where you solved something that you had been doing wrong?- what was it that you had been doing wrong, and […] This is a recreated post, following my accidental deletion of the whole blog… Today I went with Jacqui to see textiles in Addis. We started off by heading to the textile area on the road to Entoto, which is the mountain to the north of Addis. In Addis, the shops are set out in an […] I did a whole sample with my new straight bar method (see previous post), and while I like it, I don’t like it as much as I expected to. Sure, the bars look lovely and straight and perfect, but they seem to have lost a lot of their charm. The style of embroidery that I […] |
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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