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Review: 1000 Artisan Textiles

When we were down in Canberra last week I bought a wonderful book from the bookshop at the Portrait Gallery. It is called “1000 Artisan Textiles” by Sandra Salamony and Gina M Brown.

My husband handed me the book and said “You might like this one,” and I was expecting another interesting book (the cover […]

January 4th, 2011 | Category: book reviews, making stuff | One comment

left and right-handed reviews

From Jennyflowerblue, an excerpt from her review about The Right-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion:

These books are exceptionally clear in their directions and stitches are shown worked in all sorts of different ways and in sample to really give inspiration for their use. I am finding this book invaluable in my City and Guilds stitch samples. I […]

October 31st, 2010 | Category: book reviews, left handed embroidery, The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion, The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion | Leave a comment

Thinking about Christmas

With the Vetty Creations Christmas ornament swap underway, I’m already thinking about Christmas. I hate leaving things to the last minute – I do not thrive on stress as some people do!

Here in our house, and probably many others, it is common practice for various family members to affix a list of Christmas present […]

October 18th, 2010 | Category: book reviews, The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion, The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion | 5 comments

new right-handed stitch dictionary review

A new review of The Right-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion has been published by Karen Platt. An excerpt:

As with all Yvette’s books it has superb attention to detail… This has just become my number one embroidery book.

You can read the full review on Karen’s website, and you can purchase your copy from your favourite needlework […]

October 10th, 2010 | Category: book reviews, The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion | 2 comments

Learning merezhka

I was reading a needlework forum recently where some time ago a lady wanted to learn merezhka to put some on a sampler she was making. Many people directed her to websites where she could get the information. She used one of those websites for her sampler.

However, Mary Corbet and others also directed […]

September 24th, 2010 | Category: book reviews, customer embroidery, merezhka, Ukrainian Drawn Thread Embroidery | 3 comments

Right-handed stitch dictionary reviews

With its recent release, the reviews for The Right-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion are starting to flow.

On Amazon.co.uk, I found two reviews. An excerpt from the first review:

The diagrams are really clear and along with the clearly written instructions it is almost as good as having one-to-one tuition. Acon “Crafter”

And from the second review:

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September 8th, 2010 | Category: book reviews, The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion | 2 comments

Embellish magazine

There’s a reasonably new textiles magazine on the Australian market called Embellish. Its focus is shibori, embroidery, and other textiley things. I got in contact with the girls there a while ago to send them a copy of The Left-Handed Embroiderers Companion for review.

A few days later after receiving their copy, one of the […]

August 31st, 2010 | Category: book reviews, Introducing..., published projects | 2 comments

more left-handed stitch dictionary reviews

As I regularly do, I was visiting Amazon yesterday to have a look to see if anyone had written new reviews of The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion. Umm… yes… they had. Many of them…!

As a left-hander myself, I was very interested to see if this book would improve the constant struggle with learning and implementing […]

August 8th, 2010 | Category: book reviews, embroidery stitches, left handed embroidery, stitch dictionary, The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion | Leave a comment

Left-handed embroidery book review

Another review of The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion for you today. This one is from Mary Hickmott’s New Stitches. I received my copy of this a while ago, and just yesterday found it again at the bottom of a pile of books, so now I can share it with you.

From the review in the May […]

June 22nd, 2010 | Category: book reviews, stitch dictionary, teaching embroidery, The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion | 3 comments

Book review: Embroidery in Britain from 1200-1750

“Embroidery in Britain from 1200-1750” is a book that I keep coming back to. I love soaking up the visual delights found in it.

This book is a visual survey of some of the delights of the V&A’s textile collection. It includes a couple of essays, then a listing of the plates with sizes and […]

June 19th, 2010 | Category: book reviews, Elizabethan embroidery, favourite needlework items, goldwork, historical embroidery, mountmellick embroidery | 2 comments
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