Some years ago at the Sydney craft show, I met a delightful young French woman called Flore, and her cute little daughter. She was very interested in my work, and we talked at great length. I had remembered her ever since, because it is not every day that I meet young women with gorgeous French accents who are interested in my embroidery!
I met up with Flore again this year in one of my Mountmellick embroidery classes (as soon as I saw her name on the list of participants, I knew it had to be her!) and was completely surprised to learn that her daughter isn’t little anymore – time has marched on since the first time – much more than I realised!
Flore is a force to be reckoned with. She wanted to learn so much from me at the class, and I was happy to comply. She had specific questions about difficulty with certain stitches that she wanted me to help her solve, so together I helped her solve them. She’s a woman on a mission! She has an amazing website with online shop, forum and blog in French for French language readers. While she lives here in Australia, it seems that all her business activities are conducted in France.
Flore asked me if I would be willing to be interviewed for her website, so that her French customers could learn more about me. Um… how do you say no to an opportunity like that?!
She sent me a very long list of questions to answer. Right away I could see these weren’t your stock standard interview questions. She asked extremely insightful questions, with great depth. I so enjoyed answering them all!
This morning I received an email from Flore telling me the interview was up on her blog, so I went to see how it looked. Wow! She has amusingly entitled the blog post, “Yvette Stanton, le super héro qui sauve le monde de la broderie de l’extinction!” or in English, “Yvette Stanton, the super hero who is saving the world’s embroideries from extinction“. Oh dear Flore, I think you credit me for much more than I am due!
With my permission, Flore had photographed some of my embroidery at the class she had taken with me, and interwoven it with the story of meeting me all those years ago. She then followed it with the entire interview translated into French, and then the English version. It is the most extensive write-up someone’s EVER done on me! And I can’t say I’ve ever been called a super hero before! 😉
Thank you Flore, for your interest in my work, and for sharing it with others.
You can read Flore’s interview with me at her blog.
White Threads is the blog of Yvette Stanton, the author, designer, publisher behind Vetty Creations' quality needlework books and embroidery products.
What a terrific article!!!
Yvette Stanton, superhero! Brilliant! I’d go with that. You could quote it in the front pieces of all your books.
LOL, Bel!