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Some years ago, I was asked to teach an embroidery stitch sampler class. I didn’t want to design your stock-standard sampler, so this is what I created: the Jardin de Fleurs cushions. There are about 30 different stitches on this design, and extensive step-by-step instructions for all of them are included with the pattern. […] 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 […] 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 […] I recently had an email from a reader who was struggling with a stitch for one of the projects in one of my books. She sent a very clear photo so that I could see her work and assess where she might be going wrong. I was able to advise her on ways she could […] 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 […] As an author, illustrator and photographer who also designs the layout of her books (I have a degree in visual communication and my major project was in book design), I feel that makes my books somewhat unique. Most authors write their manuscripts and then their words get handed over to someone else to put […] On the whole, I would say, no. It’s a very large project with some very complicated stitches. However, that’s not a definitive no, because I don’t know you. I don’t know how determined you are! If you know your way around a needle, thread and counted embroidery in general – maybe you’ve done cross […] I received a lovely email on the weekend from Deborah, to check if I was ok, as she noticed I hadn’t posted in a while. (Thank you, Deborah, for your kindness.) I am still unwell and was finding that posting (coming up with things to say and saying them in full sentences without bits […] |
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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