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 Lily Doily in the book, Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature by Prue Scott and Yvette Stanton.
White Threads is the blog of Yvette Stanton, the author, designer, publisher behind Vetty Creations' quality needlework books and embroidery products.
I’ve a vague idea in my head of doing some Mountmellick work to represent carved wood – I think the textural nature will really help. But you know how it is, have to have at least the outlines in place before I start…!
Mountmellick certainly is textural! I’ll be interested to know how you get on!
So will I…!