I’ve been working hard filling pages of the book. Currently there are only two pages that are yet to have anything put on them. One is a chapter opener that I need to take a photo for, and one is a fairly simple step-by-step instruction page.
Once they’re done, the first draft will be complete. I have already moved on to editing some of the other pages. It is lovely to be at the stage where I am checking all the project instructions, doing really fiddly typographical things (yes, I enjoy this! I am a book designer at heart, seeing that is what I trained as!) and just generally editing the pages.
I had a fun time the other day putting the photos of the historical examples in place. Wow, they look fantastic! It makes a wonderful start to the book, really helping you to get a feel for the historical background of this style of embroidery.
In the slightly paraphrased words of a “They Might be Giants” song, “and now we’re even closer, and now we’re even closer. And now we’re closer still…”
White Threads is the blog of Yvette Stanton, the author, designer, publisher behind Vetty Creations' quality needlework books and embroidery products.
Congratulations! What an achievement!
You like They Might be Giants? I remember them from my Uni days 🙂 🙂
TMBG are more an interest of my husband’s. 🙂
Still, I’m constantly surprised by the number of people who’ve heard of them. The person who introduced us to them left me with the impression that they had rather a cult following!
I’d say it is a cult following. If we did a survey of how many of the readers of this blog knew of them I don’t think it would be a very high proportion…