Help, bullion rozes?

Can't find a page, but here's the instructions

1) The stitch: Poke needle from underside to right side, wrap needle with floss about 4-8 times according to length of stitch required and put needle back through cloth in direction of stitch (like a running stitch) and pull through gently arranging thread to lie neatly on surface. Repeat.

2) Arrange stitches thus: three rows of one stitch, closely packed together; middle one slightly smaller than top and bottom ones. Now make a ring round these with about four or five stitches. Each stitch is slightly offset. Finally do another row all around slightly offsetting each one again. They almost look spiralled, but only subtley.

3) They look best when the middle three are in a slightly darker shade than the outside stitches

Does that help?

Nel Gadget Queen Granny Waetherwax wrote:

Yes..........that's it, thank you verry much, i'm going to try it at ones:)

That page was not found but I chopped of after the slash and found a wounderfull site, thank you:)

a good look-up list of stitches another stitch list

You may not have any in your supplies, but when you can, get a pack of milliners needles. They are a bit longer and have a consistent - oh, goodness, I have only have had a sip of coffee - brain not awake yet. Let's see how do I say this - they are the same round ? diameter? thickness ? along the length except the eye and point. The shape of the milliners needle makes it possible to do the wraps around the needle and they will line up neatly. Stitching with another kind of needle is easy enough for just a few wraps but if you get into 20 or 24 wraps, you will enjoy having the needle that makes it easier. Polly

:))) Thanks, I found a lot I've just forgotten over the years:))

I do not know this sort of needles but I will look for them, seems to me they are better for the job then a normal needle, thank you.

Danuta

Those were great instructions for embroidery, Cheryl. I printed them off since web pages come and go over time.

GW: Milliner = hat maker Millinery = head wear

I mention this because milliner is a term not often used any more. If English is a second or third language, one might not know this. (Or even first ... I learned that when asking for Millinery in an upscale department store!)

HTH, PAT > On 18-10-2006 13:10, in article

:)) I don't know if I can find them over here, not many hatmaking in the netherlands:))

Milliners needles are made by John James (and others, of course) and are available at

We will hope that there's a supplier closer than that. Milliners needles are sometimes called 'straw' needles. I am so old that I can remember our town having a milliner. I can also remember having an ice wagon. Polly

"Pat in Virginia" wrote, > GW: Not many hat makers here either.

I'm now strugling with a normal needle...........and going mad..........:)

:)) I'm 51 and I can remember too much:)

Saw a lady in a store get a complete blank look when she asked for 'slacks'. Made me feel very old. My mother called light shoes 'slippers' and then wondered why she was brought bedroom slippers in a shop, and MIL used to call a Dressing Gown just a gown, which I thought painted a lovely picture and sounded very medieval. You forget how simple things in the world have changed.

When I went to a beginners class we were told to do basting with milliners' needles, because they are quite long and slide through the sandwich smoothly.

LQS stocked mine.

Wait, wait. Just before you go mad - try this. Cut a length of thread and look at it. Carefully. You will see that one end looks sharp cut and another end looks fuzzy. I haven't done much in the way of fine embroidery in a long time but I do remember that it matters very much which end of the thread you knot and which end you lead through with your stitching with bullions. The solution is simple. Try it one way and try it the other. In one direction the bullions will wrap and behave; in the other they will argue and fight you every wrap. I also remember that there were some lovely threads that I could not control no matter what I used or tried. Stay with this, Granny. Buillions are just exquisite and add such a beautiful grace. You can do it. Polly

"Granny Waetherwax" wrote > I'm now strugling with a normal needle...........and going mad..........:)

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I'm gonna surch for my magniffying glass end will look at the ends of the threads and wil try again:)