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Today Yvette shows you a demonstration of reverse chain stitch. Reverse chain stitch can be used in any situation where regular chain stitch is specified. It produces more accurate stitch placement, that can look plumper, and is advantageous when using a rigid thread such as goldwork threads. She also sheds light on the mystery of […] In this episode of White Threads FlossTube, Yvette takes us to Ethiopia. Yvette and her family spent some time living in the beautiful country of Ethiopia about ten years ago. She shows examples of Ethiopian embroidery, and Ethiopian crosses on which the embroidery motifs are based. If you’re reading this in an email, the […] Today I show you three of the Mountmellick embroidery examples in my collection. One was bought on Ebay and came from the UK, one came from an antiques store in Hobart, Tasmania, and the other came from an antiques store in Windsor, north west of Sydney. I talk about their features that are significant, whether […] White Threads FlossTube 38 – Following on from the previous episode’s Hardanger tutorial, we have a tutorial about the Hardanger buttonhole edging. In this demonstration by the Whitework Queen, Yvette Stanton, she shows how to start, four different corner variations, how to change threads, joining the end to the beginning, how to finish threads, and […] Today’s White Threads FlossTube video is a Hardanger kloster block tutorial. Hardanger kloster block are the satin stitch building block on which Hardanger embroidery is built. They need to be precisely placed and precisely stitched so that everything else can be put in the right place and worked perfectly as well. With this video from […] This episode of White Threads FlossTube has four examples of Hardanger with an organza overlay. Working with the overlay is an unusual technique, which makes the Hardanger quite difficult to do, but creates a gorgeous effect. There’s a bolster, an evening bag, a hanging ornament, and a needlecase, all with Hardanger worked on an organza […] A little pep talk from Auntie Vetty today, which came about because I needed the answer to how a particular combination of stitches worked. I spent hours yesterday trying many different variations of stitches, spacing etc until mine matched the photo of the historical piece I was trying to match. —- If I’ve never done […] Today we take a close look at a fine whitework handkerchief that was amongst the textiles from my Great Auntie Gen. It is simply exquisite embroidery worked in soft non-mercerised cotton thread on cotton fabric, with an insertion of lace in the centre. If you are reading this in an email, you can find […] In 2008, as I was recovering from serious illness, I worked an Elizabethan project with lots of plaited braid stitch on it. I learnt so much about the stitch from doing this, and was able to write comprehensive step-by-step instructions for my stitch dictionaries because of it. In this episode of White Threads FlossTube, I […] We’ve just had a long weekend here, to celebrate the Queen’s birthday (which is nowhere near this date!). In our state, travel restrictions have been relaxed a bit, which meant we were able to travel to Sydney to see my daughter and other relatives. While there, I saw my aunt who had some family textiles […] |
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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