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Today I want to focus on a small discussion that one of our stitch along participants and I have had over the last week. SJ had said that she was making good progress on her stitch along embroidery, but she wasn’t happy with her buttonhole stitch. Without being able to see her buttonholing, there was one [...] I’m still pushing along (or given our recent – still resultless – federal election here in Australia, perhaps the phrase to use would be “moving forward”) with the buttonhole edge around the Mountmellick embroidery cushion. I hope yours is progressing well too, wherever you are up to in the project. Anyone want to share how you’re [...] If you’re doing the cushion, you’ll need a couple of extra bits to make it up. Firstly, you’ll need access to a sewing machine, unless you’re hard core and don’t mind doing it by hand(!). White machine sewing thread will be helpful. You will also need a cushion insert to stuff the cushion with. You can [...] Firstly I just want to show you that I have not made much progress on my buttonhole edge around my Mountmellick embroidery stitch along cushion – but at least I have made some! The big news of the day is that there is an Ethiopian restaurant in Sydney! The African Village Cafe and Restaurant Today I traced the buttonhole cushion edge and the edge of the cushion pattern itself onto my fabric (you will have done this at the beginning). It matched up pretty well with my stitched bits, so I was pleased about that! I have started stitching. I wasn’t sure whether to stitch clockwise or anticlockwise, (with the [...]
Mountmellick embroidery lily ©Yvette Stanton 2010 Ta Da! The finished main design. From yesterday’s bud, all I needed to do was finish the top part of the stem, which is now done. From here, I have to work the buttonhole edge for the cushion. I don’t have it drawn onto my fabric, because at the stage [...] Well. I’m still a bit bereft of ideas for how to work the lily bud. Looking at the whole design, I think it needs to be a thin outline (perhaps), with a light filling. This is because the other parts of the design that are nearby have either wide outlines or are completely filled. The [...] Back to the opening lily flower. I’ve filled the central petal with some feather stitch. I left a small gap inside the cable plait stitch outline, then starting at the tip, worked down the petal. If I started at the bottom, the feather stitch would look upside-down! Because the width of the petal changes, the [...] Here’s the first full pic that we’ve seen of the whole design in our Mountmellick stitch along. I’ve finished the French knots in the petals, and put in all the stems except the last bit up to the final flower (the bud). I’m thinking of putting a sparse filling in the petals of the opening flower. [...] Today we are heading back to our very first flower, in this Mountmellick embroidery stitch along. My intention was always to put some filling in these petals. If we remember the photos of the lilies that I had right near the beginning of the stitch along, you may have noticed that lilies often have some [...] |
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