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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 really [...] 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 [...] 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 embroidery, [...] 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 [...] 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. That’s all [...] I have been just itching to get started on my next book, and have been procrastinating with all sorts of other worthy things for long enough! So I made it my aim to finally get going the other night. I transferred the folder where I had been collecting things for the book, over to my new [...] When you’ve done the first petal of the large lily, you can also work the others too in the same way. The “dirty” spots that you can see on the surrounding fabric are actually needle holes from where I have parked my needle at various stages. They will go! I might just make the statement here that [...] |
The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion: a step-by-step stitch dictionary by Yvette Stanton. Available for purchase now! 
The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion: a step-by-step stitch dictionary by Yvette Stanton. Purchase yours today! You can see turn-the-page previews of my books at
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