In the comments sections of Mary Corbet’s last two posts, one a review of my Portuguese Whitework book, and the other about left-handed Schwalm embroidery, there have been lots of lovely things said about my books.
For years I had a hard time embroidering and set it aside because it was confusing & frustrating to embroider right handed. I bought Yvette Stantons Left Handed Embroiderers Companion and fell in love again with embroidery. Now I don’t feel frustrated. Joy Smith
I own Yvette’s amazing book on Mountmellick. Her instructions are amazing as are her designs. I am working on adapting her amazing florals to a 16 x 16 inch cushion design right now. Her books really are lovely. Anastasia
Yvette Stanton’s leftie stitch dictionary goes everywhere with me when I’m stitching. Julia Wild
Yvette’s book looks great. As well as being beautifully presented this compilation about Portuguese Whitework: Bullion Embroidery from Guimarães as a traditional needlework style, with information on its origin and instructional details on stitch techniques, is an important preservation of history. As time passes more of the intended original expression and knowledge of early needleworkers, and other information about the art style is lost, then sadly, remaining historical examples are misidentified or just lumped as whitework. Yvette brought us back to Mountmellick embroidery and now another whitework treasure. Lots of work done with love. Well done. I love it too. Thanks! Louisa
Thank you for saying such lovely things about my books! 🙂
White Threads is the blog of Yvette Stanton, the author, designer, publisher behind Vetty Creations' quality needlework books and embroidery products.
Speaking of which, I wish there was an easy way to get your books in the US. I tried to get the Left and Right-Handed dictionaries for my library, but they could not be purchased through the prescribed channels–you know how that goes–so we are out of luck. 🙁
Hi Dangermom,
I don’t know how libraries purchase books in the US. Here, if you ask for a book and they can buy it, they will certainly try. It may not be through their usual supplier, but they (well, at least my local library, and any libraries that my husband has worked for – he’s a librarian!) make the effort to get it. The two wholesalers that have it in the US are Dinky Dyes in Texas, and Nordic Needle in North Dakota. I’m pretty sure that both would be happy to supply to libraries!
My husband often buys books for his library from obscure places, with our credit card and then gets reimbursed by his employers, but maybe that’s not common? He looks at it as a service to his customers – he will do whatever he can to get the books they ask for.
Good luck!
I can try! 🙂
Well-deserved comments – even for a rightie, your diagrams make better sense than many of the others!