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I thought I might spend a bit of time over the next few days giving you more information about the classes I’ll be teaching at Beating Around the Bush. Elizabethan Strawberry Roundel With Yvette Stanton Sunday 15th April 2012 This charming strawberry ornament features Elizabethan embroidery stitches such as buttonhole filling, reverse chain stitch and [...] 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 [...] “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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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, [...] 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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