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Today in the Mountmellick embroidery stitch along we continue learning more about cable plait stitch. When you are working cable plait stitch, no doubt at some point you will run out of thread before you finish the part that you are needing to stitch. With cable plait stitch looking to be quite a complicated stitch, [...] In preparation for our Mountmellick embroidery stitch along, starting in about a week, I thought I might direct you back to an old post on Mountmellick thread. Mountmellick thread IS different to work with compared to other thread, and the post explains a bit about it. Yesterday I had an email conversation with a friend who is left-handed. She has a copy of my book The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion (and loves it), but she’s about to do some highly technical historical style stitching for which there are no stitch diagrams and instructions in left-handed available. She asked me if mirroring will work. [...] Following on from my series of posts on bullion knots, you may find it interesting that today Mary Corbet has a post about needles for knots. We did cover this in my posts, but its well worth reading some more about it. You can read my original posts at: Tips for working better bullion stitch We’ve all heard horror stories about ways of transferring patterns onto fabric, where the lines never washed away, or worse still, ate into the fabric. So following on from yesterday’s tutorial on techniques for transferring patterns onto fabric, today we’re having a tutorial on options for what to transfer your patterns with. No marker pens. I [...] I had a question the other day about transferring patterns onto fabric, so I thought I would write a tutorial on some of the techniques that I have used to transfer patterns onto fabric. Tracing. Place the fabric over the pattern, on a lightbox (or hold it up to a lighted window – hard on the [...] Sometimes you just can’t seem to get that thread through the eye of the needle, and you don’t have a needle theader handy. That’s ok, if you have some paper, you’ll be right! To thread a needle with paper, cut a very narrow strip, about 5cm/2 inches long. It needs to be narrow enough to fit [...] Thanks to all who have replied to my questions about bullions. I have scattered these questions all over the internet, and from everyone’s responses have put together a collection of great tips. Because I am stuck here in Ethiopia with my little netbook, I can’t give you any diagrams for working bullions, but I have [...] I am interested in hearing about the problems that people have with bullion stitch – if any! What goes wrong for you? What bugs you about your bullions? Did you ever have an “a-ha!” moment where you solved something that you had been doing wrong?- what was it that you had been doing wrong, and how [...] I received a lovely email from a customer the other day, who has been teaching herself how to do Mountmellick embroidery. I include some of if below. |
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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