Sometimes it is necessary to figure out what the thread count of a fabric is, as you may not know what the thread count for the fabric is, or you may not trust the reported thread count. Thread count is the number of threads per inch, and could differ between the warp (down the length [...]
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Boiling Mountmellick embroidery?! Why? The fabric that we have used for the Mountmellick embroidery stitch along is the gorgeous high-quality 100% cotton satin jean fabric. It comes slightly off-white. At the completion of the embroidery, we boil it to finish whitening off the fabric. It is only a subtle difference, but it definitely does make [...] I made it my aim to finish the buttonhole stitching on the Mountmellick embroidery stitch along cushion yesterday, and I did! It was a bit of a squeeze to get it finished before our evening’s activities, but it is now done. I thought that it might be useful to explain how I end my buttonhole [...] 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 [...] 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 [...] 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 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 [...] 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 [...] |
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