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Ok, I’m going to be a little controversial here, or maybe just show my ignorance… 🙂 I have been looking at the front cover of a book that I own “Three Hundred Years of Embroidery 1600-1900: Treasures from the Collection of the Embroiderers’ Guild of Great Britain” by Pauline Johnstone. On the front cover it […] Ok, having some confusion here… Can anyone tell me the difference between ceylon stitch and ladder stitch? I’ve been doing both and the ONLY difference I can see is the beginning – the set up. IS there any other difference that I have been missing? One of the reasons I love teaching Mountmellick embroidery is because it is so much fun showing students how they can play with stitches. Often we learn the basic stitches but don’t learn variations. Its the variations that I find so much fun. When we go through feather stitch in my classes, it gets rather […] Over the past few days, in response to a personal challenge from Mary Corbet of Needle’nThread.com I have been trying out plaited braid stitch. It is notorious for being a Very Difficult Stitch. I’m wondering why… I didn’t find it all that hard. I had some basic instructions in Mary Thomas’s Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches. […] I’m currently working on a left-handed stitch dictionary. I’d like to make it as useful as possible for as many people as possible. I’m therefore asking for requests – what stitches do you as a left-hander, particularly want instructions for? If you are a needlework teacher, what stitches would you really like left-handed instructions for […] Many people find it difficult to produce evenly spaced, regular, feather stitch. I have had the privilege of teaching feather stitch to many people in my classes, and I always love it when they say, “I never could do this before. This is wonderful – now I can!” Last night I decided to try something […] |
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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