I had a lovely day yesterday working on my next book. It was so much fun coming up with new designs, and getting things on to the pages of the book.
I’m not yet saying exactly what the book is on, but a description might help to keep you all happy: its another historical whitework embroidery, featuring both drawn thread and surface embroidery. If you have an idea what style I might be referring to, please keep it under your hat!
A couple of years ago, I was at my embroidery guild’s library, searching for any eye-catching whitework in old books. As I looked through a 1960s book on styles of ethnic embroidery, there was one photograph that made me immediately think “What is that? I have to know more about that embroidery!” It was like nothing I had ever seen before, and I knew it would be the perfect subject for a book. Its very unique, and absolutely gorgeous.
I hope I have whet your appetite!
White Threads is the blog of Yvette Stanton, the author, designer, publisher behind Vetty Creations' quality needlework books and embroidery products.
Hi, Yvette. I purchased a copy of “The Left-Handed Embroiders’s Companion” yesterday, and am absolutely thrilled with it. It has stitches I have not seen any place else, and I love the hand dyed threads and fabrics you used in your samples. I really feel it could replace several of the stitch books that I have collected over the years.
Looking forward to your next book!! Sandi
Thanks Sandi! 😀
Hi Yvette: The other day I was working on the buttonhole stitch and was trying to do them quick. I went from left to right. I was actually doing the way a left handed person would do, but I am a right handed person. So the stitch did not look good. I must get a copy of “the right handed embroiders’s campanion” soon.
I mean right to left.
I’m very intrigued about this new project…!