Happy World Embroidery Day!

Today is World Embroidery Day!

The initiative for World Embroidery Day came from Skåne Sy-d, a local group of Broderiakademin, the Swedish Embroiderer’s Guild. The first World Embroidery Day took place in Vismarlöv, 30th July 2011. They feel that the importance of embroidery must be made known so that World Embroidery Day will spread around the world. They suggest that we make 30th July a day filled with creativity for the sake of Peace, Freedom and Equality.

You can read more about it here.

I hope you will celebrate World Embroidery Day with me and thousands of others around the world by doing some embroidery-related things.

Firstly, I’m going to do some embroidery. I might even do it in a public place. I have to go to the bank today, so I might take my embroidery with me, and sit in the mall outside the bank and do some open-air embroidery.

Secondly, I’m going to WEAR some embroidery today. I’ve finished my embroidered blouse, except for sewing on the buttons. So this morning, I will sew them on and wear my shirt with pride. I’ll probably be the most overdressed person in the mall, but I will enjoy wearing it!

Hopefully I’ll be able to find someone who will photograph me doing my embroidery in my embroidered shirt, and share it with you. Whatever you do today to celebrate World Embroidery Day, please take a photo and send it to me so that I can share them here, or post it on the Vetty Creations Facebook page.

Let’s make a loud noise, worldwide, about embroidery today!