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Stitch this snail for storage! If you haven’t been to visit The Embroiderer’s Story lately, I suggest you do. Tricia has a number of posts featuring close up photos of gorgeous old embroidered gloves from the Gloves Collection Trust, courtesy of the Fashion Museum, Bath and North East Somerset Council. They are simply stunning, and [...] The other day my husband (who is a school librarian) was telling me about a final year student and her textiles project. She wants to do a whole mermaid/under the sea themed outfit. Part of this was that she wanted to create a fishing net. He asked me to put it on my blog to [...]
Parma stitch A week or two ago I was chatting with a customer on the phone and she asked about Parma embroidery, having seen that Parma stitch was included in my stitch dictionary. Not having actually seen the dictionary yet – she was calling to order one – she wanted to know if it [...] Sometimes, people who have never seen Mountmellick embroidery before have some trouble understanding what makes Mountmellick embroidery distinctively its own style. I know I did, when I first started learning about it! Because Mountmellick embroidery is a traditional style of embroidery, by studying historical examples, we can come to an understanding of what it [...] I had a lovely day yesterday working on my next book. It was so much fun coming up with new designs, and getting things on to the pages of the book. I’m not yet saying exactly what the book is on, but a description might help to keep you all happy: its another historical whitework [...] Multicultural Day went really well the other day. Apparently the injera got eaten happily. For the last hour of the day, family and friends are invited to watch all the kids parade in their costumes. Its wonderful to see, and I often marvel at the Korean parents allowing their daughters to come in their amazing [...] Today is multicultural day at my daughters’ school. They’re going dressed in their hand embroidered Ethiopian clothes. Hopefully I’ve had a chance to add a photo to this post for you. I would have written more, but I spent so much time plaiting their hair last night (1 hour each) and making the injera (another [...] As you know, the title of this blog is White Threads, due to my enduring love of whitework. Today I came across some whitework with a difference: Quaker cross stitch worked as whitework. Its stunning! Check out the gorgeous whitework version of the Mary Wigham sampler at Needleprint. It was stitched by Willy de Boer. [...] Just to recap, so far in the Mountmellick stitch along we have covered tracing the pattern, and getting inspiration for embroidering lily flowers. I suspect that yesterday’s post did not come through in the RSS feed (probably due to my little mistake last week!), so if you didn’t see it, my apologies, and please make [...] I usually don’t plan out much of my stitch placement before I start a Mountmellick embroidery design. Sometimes I’ll have some of an idea of what I’d like to use, and maybe a vague idea of where, or perhaps a particular treatment for a specific motif, but much of the time I just figure it [...] |
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