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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 […] When I was working the samples for my book Hardanger Filling Stitches, I found that a tiny little hoop was really useful for working filling stitches with diagonals, such as the Wheel Stitch shown. Having the fabric flat in a hoop meant you couldn’t accidentally work the stitches too tight, resulting in unpleasant puckering […] Marion Scoular, Hardanger embroidery author and teacher, graduate of the Royal School of Needlework, and City and Guilds Silver Medallist, said this of Hardanger Filling Stitchesby Yvette Stanton: “I cannot imagine the time Yvette must have spent on this encyclopaedia andthe stitched models. It boggles my mind. Not only does she provide explicit diagrams […] 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 […] What should I use to make Hardanger embroidery? First, choose fabric of a count that you can comfortably see. Then use my handy ready reckoner to find what size thread and needles to use with your fabric. “Hardanger Filling Stitches” has now arrived in the US and Canada, and this is Mary Kay’s testimonial. It is here! A beautiful piice of work, can’t imagine the amount of research involved. I have done hardanger all my adult life (am a senior now) and my mother (Norwegian) as well into her 90’s. Oh […] 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 […] |
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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