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For anyone who is interested in Italian needlework, a friend of mine, Jeanine, has a newish blog all about it: http://italian-needlework.blogspot.com/ Jeanine lives in Canada. I have never met her, but we have corresponded over many years, often about obscure forms of embroidery that interest us both, but perhaps no-one else. 🙂 Jeanine lived for […] These are the two class models for my beginners hardanger class at The Crewel Gobelin in June. Contact The Crewel Gobelin in Killara, Sydney, for more information and bookings. You can choose whatever colour threads and fabric you want for this class. I’ve worked both my examples on “flax” Dublin linen (25 count). However, […] The power went off at 8:30 this morning. I patiently waited throughout the day, doing my drawn thread embroidery and getting a lot more done than I had expected to today, until it finally came back on seven hours later at 3:30pm. Until now, we have been very fortunate not to have had many power […] This morning I happened to be able to access Blogspot blogs (access can be quite intermittent here in Ethiopia, which is why I moved my blog off Blogspot a few weeks ago), and found my way to the blog of Karen Ruane. Karen is a contemporary whitework embroidery artist, and I’m so glad I found […] This is a sneak peak of my latest embroidery, being done on 38/40 count Portuguese linen. Drawn thread embroidery on Portuguese linen As you can probably see, it is whitework (white thread on white fabric). The Portuguese linen is lovely to work on. When I first started working on it, it shed quite a […] Following on from yesterday, Meri very kindly sent me the following link to a Brainerd and Armstrong publication which features Mountmellick embroidery in silk. (Just to be clear: Mountmellick embroidery in silk is NOT something I support!!) http://www.archive.org/details/cu31924085658643 It starts at about p69, and onwards from there. Curiously, this is not the publication I had […] This morning I was catching up with Mary Corbet’s Needle’nThread, where she revisited an older post of hers on society silk. This was because the author of a book and expert on the subject, Donna Cardwell, contacted her regarding the post. In her comment, Donna mentioned that there were many different types of silk thread […] I have had a number of enquiries about the instructions for cable plait stitch, to use with the Snow White mountmellick tablecloth. The instructions for this stitch have not been included in the most recent issue of Inspirations magazine, in which Snow White has recently been published. When Inspirations publishes a project, they often can […] Happy St Patrick’s Day to you all! I have a little Irish blood within me, and I do love Mountmellick embroidery, which is of course Irish. I have decided this is a great day to celebrate all things Irish (particularly Mountmellick embroidery) and am therefore very pleased to announce that we now have our new […] I have the pleasure of announcing the release of two new Mountmellick embroidery kits: the Wildflower Cushion (below left) and the Dogrose and Blackberry Cushion (below right). These cushions have been designed to be used as a pair, but will also make a splash on any lounge or bed as a single cushion. They’d make […] |
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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