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The other day I received a lovely email from Elena K in Finland. Six months ago I didn’t know about the existence of hardanger, but now it’s my favorite hobby. These are my works. I have been studying from your book for six months. Thank you! Wow, Elena! Your work is beautiful! I […] This week, after an exceptionally LOONNNGGGG wait, I have finally received new stock of the Premax ringlock scissors which are my choice of scissors now that we can no longer get Dovo Hardanger scissors. I find cutting with these scissors like cutting butter. They feel LOVELY in hand. I used these scissors while working […] This morning, Laura, a Norwegian member of a Hardanger group that I’m in, posted these images of and from the latest issue of Norsk Husflid magazine. Lovely to be featured in a magazine in Norway! So often, I send images and words off to magazines and never see the resulting article or review because […] This style of embroidery is called Punt’e Nù, and is from Sardinia, off the coast of Italy. It is a really unusual style of embroidery, in that it is made from hundreds (thousands?) of tiny knots worked on the surface of the embroidery. That makes it really textural and really quite unique. Shown is […] Diana asked me: “[For Hardanger] when you pull the threads, do you do it on a ring, or frame, or flat surface, or just in hand? I was taught that it should be done on frame (or at the least a ring) and bit by bit, not all of them, filling section by section […] Nearly 30 years ago I did a degree in Design (Visual Communication). It was absolutely formative in bringing me to where I am today. Probably because of some feedback from one of my uni assignments, I came to believe that I wasn’t very good at pushing my designs. I think I understood that I […] One of the things I have always loved about Mountmellick embroidery is the playing with stitches. When you don’t have colour (it’s whitework embroidery), pattern and texture can be obtained from stitches. Why work plain old buttonhole stitch, when you can work wavy top buttonhole stitch?! This lily is from the Shamrock and […] This is the order I generally use for stitching Hardanger. 1. Satin stitch I do satin stitch first as it forms the framework for all other parts of the design. I start near the centre and work outwards. I include buttonhole stitching here, as it usually has the same role as satin stitch in […] Petra asked me for help with diagonal box stitch. By answering publicly, you can all learn from this too. Happily, Petra let me know that the advice I gave her worked a treat! If you’d like me to help you improve upon a stitch you’re working on, email me (yvette at vettycreations dot com […] Stitch tension is the thing that most people told me they needed help with when I was writing my book Hardanger Filling Stitches. If you’re one of those people, page 42 is the page for you – it’s all about tension! The image above illustrates the difference poor and good tension can make. Good […] |
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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