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Happy New Year to all my blog readers! I have now finished my Elizabethan embroidery. It is unlike anything I have ever stitched before and I had so much fun doing it. This all came about because of a sort of personal challenge from Mary Corbet for me to include plaited braid stitch in my […] One of the reasons I love teaching Mountmellick embroidery is because it is so much fun showing students how they can play with stitches. Often we learn the basic stitches but don’t learn variations. Its the variations that I find so much fun. When we go through feather stitch in my classes, it gets rather […] Over the past few days, in response to a personal challenge from Mary Corbet of Needle’nThread.com I have been trying out plaited braid stitch. It is notorious for being a Very Difficult Stitch. I’m wondering why… I didn’t find it all that hard. I had some basic instructions in Mary Thomas’s Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches. […] I’m currently working on a left-handed stitch dictionary. I’d like to make it as useful as possible for as many people as possible. I’m therefore asking for requests – what stitches do you as a left-hander, particularly want instructions for? If you are a needlework teacher, what stitches would you really like left-handed instructions for […] I think I had an “a-ha!” moment yesterday. I was reading on the Anything Left Handed website, that many left handers think that they have adapted to the right handed world, but when they try truly left handed products, life is so much easier for them. Conversely, when right handed people use left handed products […] I have been thinking a lot about left handedness and its effect on learning embroidery, since my Left Handed Day post. I decided to explore it a little bit more in a larger forum. As a member of the Country Bumpkin Forums, I posted there asking about the left-handedness or otherwise of members there. I […] When right handed teachers teach left handed people embroidery, it is common that they get the lefties to sit in front of them so that they can see it in “mirror” to what the right handed people do. Many lefties say that works ok for them. I’ve really only ever learnt from books and by […] Today is International Left Handed Day, which caught me completely by surprise. I didn’t know that we got a special day to celebrate our left-handedness! I’m not sure what we’re supposed to do today to celebrate… I am a left handed stitcher. I am also a left handed embroidery teacher, which is reasonably unusual, I […] |
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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