I have a question about bullion stitch. I do my bullion stitch a little different to many people, in that I have the needle inserted in the fabric as shown below – half above the fabric, half below. This is also the way it is shown in Audrey Francini’s “Crewel Embroidery with Texture and Thread […]
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Sorry I’ve been so quiet over the last week. I’ve been really getting stuck into writing my left handed stitch book. My aim is to get at least three pages done each day. That will help me to reach my publishing target date. I went down to the guild library last week (or was it […] I have had a number of enquiries about the instructions for cable plait stitch, to use with the Snow White mountmellick tablecloth. The instructions for this stitch have not been included in the most recent issue of Inspirations magazine, in which Snow White has recently been published. When Inspirations publishes a project, they often can […] Today I have had the pleasure of resuming work on my left-handed embroidery book. After a long run of bad health, things have improved so much that I feel well enough to work again. It’s quite exciting as I have been lamenting for some time that nothing has been happening with my book. I spent […] Following on from yesterday’s little chat about eyelets, following are some tips for working more open eyelets. Part of the problem when creating eyelets is that some people bring their needle up in the centre of the eyelet and insert it into the fabric again at the edge. Then they bring the needle up again […] If you’re like me, you’ll enjoy reading Mary Corbet’s blog Needle N Thread. One of Mary’s current projects is a whitework sampler. She plans to use many different types of whitework embroidery on it, including Merezhka Poltavska (she’s using one of the learning samplers from my book Ukrainian Drawn Thread Embroidery), Mountmellick (again she […] You may remember a short while ago I posted about a certain piece of Elizabethan embroidery which may or may not have featured plaited braid stitch. At the beginning of the post I suggested that I might be about to display my ignorance. It seems that while I correctly identified that the main coiling stems […] This week I have been getting stuck into doing the illustrations and instructions for all the various chain stitches – and there are so many! But its filling in lots of pages so I feel like I am making a lot of progress. If there is time later today, I think I might get started […] Happy New Year to all my blog readers! I have now finished my Elizabethan embroidery. It is unlike anything I have ever stitched before and I had so much fun doing it. This all came about because of a sort of personal challenge from Mary Corbet for me to include plaited braid stitch in my […] For my current needlework project, I needed some gold thread for stitching plaited braid stitch. A few days ago I had tried the 371 Jacobean Gold thread that I’d bought last week (a small amount of to test) and it was too thin and didn’t give good enough coverage. Then I’d tried some Kreinik #7 […] |
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