Today, courtesy of Yvette Stanton, I’m giving away another copy of Portuguese Whitework: Bullion Embroidery from Guimarães. If you’d like to know what this book is all about, and what it can teach you about hand embroidery, you’re welcome to read my review of this book that focuses on a beautiful whitework technique.
If you’d like a chance to win this book and add it to your embroidery library, just follow these simple requirements:
1. Leave a comment below, before 5:00 am (Central Time, USA) Saturday, June 16th. You can click this link to go directly to the comment form on this article. The give-away is now closed – thanks for participating!
2. Please make sure you leave a unique name either in the “name” line on the comment form or as a signature on your comment. If your name happens to be Sue, for example, to distinguish yourself from another Sue, you might put “Sue in Oregon” or something to that effect.
3. In the comment form, please answer the following question:
What’s your favorite type of needlework and why?
It’s that simple!
I’ll draw for a winner on Saturday morning, nice and early, and announce the winner some time that day. If you happen to be the lucky one, you’ll need to drop me a line with your mailing address.
See what I mean by simple?
Good luck!
Thank you for the great giveaway! All white embroidery is so beautiful. I have a piece of white embroidery from a pillow I had as a child with my name on it. It is one of my favorite memories! I love to embroider by hand and have always loved the look of redwork!
So my nine year old granddaughter, upon seeing the cover for the Portuguese Whitework book, says
“EASY! You just cut the cloth into different pieces, join them again with a crochet chain and then do regular embroidery on them!” Winning the book would give me a chance to show her what’s REALLY involved – and maybe enticing her to try it herself? I remember my miserable times trying to pull the correct threads…
I would like to try this technique since I love hardanger.It looks fun. Thanks for the opportunity
embroidery is so elegant
This is a great book! I would love to win this. I have always been interested in this type of work. And I love hand work of most all types. Embroidery is my first and foremost love in the crafting area. Thank you for giving me a chance to win something. I never win, though. LOL
I love all types of embroidery, but my absolute favorite is crewel. It is so much fun to take a plain design and change it with different types of stitches. I enjoy browsing my books and magazines to get ideas. Sometimes it takes awhile to figure out what I want to do, but then there is that aha moment and I get started embroidering my project.
The Portuguese Whitework is beautiful and I would like to join the rest of the ladies for a chance to win it.
What a great giveaway. I love white work.
Hi:
Thanks a lot for the giveaway. So my favorite is redwork, in my country we usually made a traditional stitches only, some few make differents stitches.
Alexandra Abarca
Costa Rica
My favorite type of needlework is canvas work.
I was intoduced to it by doing an old favorite called
Ashes of Roses.
But I do enjoy all types.
Edgy38
I’m just learning to embroider and am loving it. I’ve always crocheted, but embroidery is what I’m these days.
Thank you, Mary, for the chance to join your generous give-away. It must be hard to choose one from amongst so many deserving ladies, but my heart skipped a beat when I saw this book because I am completely enthralled by whitework embroidery. I find it utterly fascinating that with the ingenuity of women across the world, these same two basic materials: white fabric and thread can be manipulated in a seemingly endless variety of ways. I have enjoyed learning both pulled thread and drawn thread techniques, but I know I have only scratched the surface of these beautiful forms of needlework. I would love the opportunity to try Portuguese Whitework with it’s intriguing mix of openwork areas and surface embroidery. Having coped with the same illness as Yvette Stanton, I am so inspired by how she has overcome this difficult condition to create such beautiful work and also by knowing that we have the same love for wonderful whitework embroidery.
My favourite type of needlework is cross-stitch because the results are perfect every time.
Que oportunidade maravilhosa, quero muito participar.
Voltei… me empolguei e esqueci de comentar sobre meu trabalho preferido que é o bordado em ponto cruz , mais sempre que posso me aventuro em outras ´costurices`.
beijos
My favorite type of needlework is hand embroidery. I started out with the cross stitch craze but only doing a couple types of stitches got boring. I love making french knots and lazy daisy chains, outline stitches. Your blog is like Pandora’s box because when I open it to read, there are so many stitches I have never heard of or tried. I want to advance to cutwork so I can make napkins and a tablerunner. Thank you for sharing your talent and knowledge with us.
I am renewing my love of embroidery from when i was a teenager working on exquisite ladies or angels of the renaissance….and what better transition than the white 7 black work that decorated their cuffs & chemise’ to bring the “threads of memory” together ;]
I’m not very good at needlework but I enjoy having a go at embroidery.
I don’t know much about Portuguese Whitework but would love to have a try.
I would love to have this book for inspiration and to try
the techniques
I like machine embroidery, I love to sit and watch the picture appear.
I don’t think I could pick one favorite kind of needlework. It’s variety that I love: Redwork when I want mindless stitching, cross stitch when I don’t mind following a pattern, crazy quilt embroidery when I’m feeling creative, crochet or tatting when I want something portable, quilting when I feel like firing up the machine……
I’d love to add Portuguese Whitework to my repertoire!
Oh i love this embroidery work. I would love to learn how to do Portuquese White work. It is so gorgeous.
I love, luv, looooove you newsletter, always so informative, I would really LOVE to win. Thanks, Sally D.
Hi Mary: Thanks for the great giveaway – it’s always a joy to add a new technique to the repetoire (and library).
My favourite technique is whatever I happen to be working on at the time – from hardanger through rug hooking – I love it all!
Adrienne
I enjoy counted cross stitch most. My grandmother taught me this when I was a young child. Whenever I’m sitting alone working on a project, I think of her and remember the long talks we used to have when sitting on the back porch, working on our cross stitch projects together.
My favorite form of needlework is Hardanger. I’m of Danish descent and yes I know this is a Norwegian needlework. It’s in the blood I believe, lol. I just love how Hardanger looks, before and after cutting.
Thanks for the opportunity.
Amy Jensen in Colorado.
All types of whitework – I love the detail and precision involved.
Susan Koellner
I love whitework, though I don’t have much on display at this present time. It’s not that I don’t want to it’s because I have two young grandchildren, need I say more…
At the moment my favorite is traditional Lithuanian whitework and I want to try more types of it. So this book would be a great help to me. Thank you for this give away and good luck for everyone.
I really enjoy cross stitch and someday hope to have enough patience to learn bargello. Thanks for the giveaway. The book will be well used.
I would love to have a book on how to do this beautiful technique of whitework stitches. Thanks for the opportunity to win.
Well, I’ve never done needlework before, so I guess it’s all my favorite. I just found the website and I’m fascinated by it.
I love embroidery taught to me by my Portuguese grandmother.
I love all kinds of white work, particulary Hardanger and Casalguidi. Love Yvettes work and would like to try Portugese White work.
Barbara in GuisbroughUK
My favorite embroidery right now is Mountmellick! Just because it’s relative new to me.
This would make a lovely gift.
♥♥♥
Sue
I’ve learned a lot of different embroidery techniques over the years … but my most favorite is still the type of stitching my paternal Grandma taught me when I was tiny. Usually called surface stitchery, generally used to embellish household articles and includes such stitches as back, outline/stem, buttonhole, lazy daisey, etc.
Linda
I love all kinds of embroidery but I have never had the opportunity to find out about Portuguese Whitework and would love to be able to find out how to do it.
Tina (from the UK)
I love white work and this book would be wonderful
My favorite needlework is a cross stitch because it is a pleasant way to spend free time and make friends.I still have not learned the embroidery of Guimaraes and if I win the book will surely be my greatest challenge to learn this technique!
Brígida
I find needlework so interesting & beautiful that I can not pick one favorite type it is all my favorite. The detail & stitches that go into a type of needlework is amazing. The time that is put into a piece of needlework is very rewarding when you see the finished piece. I have done counted cross stitch and embroidery. There are so many things to learn. The book, Portuguese Whitework would be great to have to learn more about the world of embroidery. I just love all types of needlework new and old. Thank You So Much.
I love counted cross stitch but would love to learn this new technique.
My current passion is embroidery with beads and sequins with my favourite stitch being the chain stitch. It would be great to win this book as it would introduce me to white work which is something that I am not that familiar with. I am currently having a ‘go’ at Broderie Anglaise after recently purchasing a book titled ‘Sewing Techniques’ by Dorothy Wood. Thanks for the opportunity to go into the draw.
Oriel from New Zealand
I loved this book when you reviewed it and am so glad to see you have another give away!! I love cross stitch, especially when it has specialty stitches. But I am always up for trying different types of needlework!!
I appreciate all the needlework you expose me to.
Trying to pick my favorite type of needlework is like trying to pick my favorite sweet treat. I love Hardanger, blackwork and Assisi work. When I work on these types of pieces, I feel a connection to the past. I used to do historical re-enactment and loved that I could indulge in 2 of my favorite hobbies at the same time. I haven’t tried Portuguese Whitework yet – looking forward to learning something new.
My favorite type of needlework is free-style embroidery because it leaves so much room for creativity and improvisation. I love satin stitch. Thanks for the giveaway, fun! Good Luck everyone
I cannot decide between counted techniques such as blackwork and bargello and the lovely textures of candlewicking and free-form surface stitching.
Portuguese stitching appeals to both sides of my embroidery debate, so I would love to win this book. Thank you Mary and Yvette for giving us this lovely opportunity.
I love to Cross Stitch. Have been doing so for 35 years.
well, right now it is definitely embroidery…i am loving the freedom of it…pick my own patterns, threads, backgrounds, stitches…i am making it mine! i have grand plans to embroider my jeans this summer!
The whitework style of embroidery really, really appeals to me – so simple in color yet extremely elegant. Our guild recently did a program on Mountmellick, another form of whitework, and it fascinated me so much that
I want to learn more about beautiful white embroidery techniques. Thank you for the opportunity.