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What’s the difference between cable plait stitch and plaited braid stitch?
cable plait stitch This is cable plait stitch. It is the stitch used in Mountmellick embroidery. It is a reasonably simple stitch, with only a few steps. Also known as figure of eight stitch to the ladies of Mountmellick, because that’s what each stitch looks [...] “Embroidery in Britain from 1200-1750″ is a book that I keep coming back to. I love soaking up the visual delights found in it. This book is a visual survey of some of the delights of the V&A’s textile collection. It includes a couple of essays, then a listing of the plates with sizes and descriptions, [...] Some time back, I wrote a post on the fact that I was considering putting some gold thread embroidery on a black beret that I had recently purchased. Now, given the fact that I have been busy beyond belief, getting ready for the Big Craft Show, I haven’t even touched it since. (I have thought [...] I haven’t actually made any progress on my difficult stitches sampler recently, as I have been busy with getting ready for the Sydney Quilt and Craft Show (Stand G32, if you’re going to be there!). I thought that you might like to see where I am up to though. So far I have a section of [...] I did a little experiment yesterday with the Kreinik Japan No 7 thread. I really wanted to see how it would go, in case I decide that I want to use gold thread on my beret. I don’t think real metallic thread would be happy about being rained on. Kreinik Japan No 7 thread is a [...] On Saturday morning we went to the Ethnological Museum (also known as the Institute of Ethiopian Studies Museum) in the grounds of Addis Ababa University. It was FASCINATING! This museum has a good write up in the Lonely Planet guide, but it was SO good! The museum itself is housed in the magnificent palace that used to [...] My husband feels that this post should be entitled “Lucy in the glass case without any jewellery at all”. Today we went to the National Museum and saw (amongst other things) Lucy. Lucy is the earliest bipedal hominid that we have a record of, classified as australopithecus afarensis. She was found in northern Ethiopia in 1974, [...] I recently bought a copy of “English Embroidery from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1580-1700: Twixt Art and Nature” This is a gorgeous hefty book – 308 pages! It is actually an exhibition catalogue from the exhibition of the same name currently on at The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, and [...] 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 Japan [...] The title of this post doesn’t seem particularly remarkable for someone who is a needlework designer and writes books about embroidery. However, I have been seriously ill for much of the last year, and during the worst times I have been unable to stitch. It has therefore been a wonderful thrill to me that I [...] |
The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion: a step-by-step stitch dictionary by Yvette Stanton. Available for purchase now! 
The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion: a step-by-step stitch dictionary by Yvette Stanton. Purchase yours today! You can see turn-the-page previews of my books at
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