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A lot of people end up at this blog because of their interest in Elizabethan embroidery. They come here to see my Elizabethan embroidery from earlier this year. For all those who are interested, The Embroiderer’s Story currently has a series of posts about plaited braid stitch and how to do it. Very interesting information! […] A few people have asked what’s going to be in my left-handed embroidery book, so now that things are a bit more finalised, I think its time to spill the beans. I’m still not sure about the title, but “The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion” is my current top choice. The idea is that this is […] Some time ago I set myself the deadline of having all the stitch instructions pages and their diagrams for my left-handed stitch dictionary, done by the end of May. My time is nearly up, and I have just 5 pages to go! There are about 130 pages of stitch instructions, generally with one stitch per […] In response to yesterday’s question about bullion stitches and how other people hold their needle and thread, Mary Corbet of NeedleNThread, included this as part of her response: It’s funny – when I first learned how to do bullions (and almost any embroidery stitch, for that matter), I always went by the book. But once […] I have a question about bullion stitch. I do my bullion stitch a little different to many people, in that I have the needle inserted in the fabric as shown below – half above the fabric, half below. This is also the way it is shown in Audrey Francini’s “Crewel Embroidery with Texture and Thread […] Such a question can really only be asked by a right hander… I was talking with some people yesterday, about writing my left-handed embroidery book. One of them, who is right-handed, said “Well, its all just common sense really.” I just stopped and stared at her, and said, “That is SUCH a right-handed thing to […] Sorry I’ve been so quiet over the last week. I’ve been really getting stuck into writing my left handed stitch book. My aim is to get at least three pages done each day. That will help me to reach my publishing target date. I went down to the guild library last week (or was it […] Over the last week since I’ve resumed work, I’ve been very busy on my left-handed stitch dictionary. I am SO enjoying working on it again. I’ve been concentrating on writing instructions and doing the diagrams. I’ve been averaging about 6 pages a day, which is really very pleasing. In the past few days, some of […] Today I have had the pleasure of resuming work on my left-handed embroidery book. After a long run of bad health, things have improved so much that I feel well enough to work again. It’s quite exciting as I have been lamenting for some time that nothing has been happening with my book. I spent […] This week I have been getting stuck into doing the illustrations and instructions for all the various chain stitches – and there are so many! But its filling in lots of pages so I feel like I am making a lot of progress. If there is time later today, I think I might get started […] |
White Threads is the blog of Yvette Stanton, the author, designer, publisher behind Vetty Creations' quality needlework books and embroidery products.
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