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Mary Corbet’s review of left-handed embroidery book

Just in case you haven’t seen it already, Mary Corbet of Needle’nThread has written a wonderful review of The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion. And after reading that, you can purchase your copy from the Vetty Creations website. 🙂

December 23rd, 2009 | Category: book reviews, The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion | Leave a comment

Christmas is coming…

A week or so ago I received a lovely email from Lisa in Canada. She said:

I purchased one of your books, Ukrainian Drawn Thread Embroidery, quite a while ago and I’m only now looking at it. I must compliment you on your lovely creation. The pictures, the instructions, the patterns, all so clear and […]

November 4th, 2009 | Category: book reviews, making stuff | 2 comments

needlework stories

I recently received a lovely email from a customer, who gave me permission to share it with you.

Hello Yvette

My Aunt and Uncle were visiting from Sydney and my mother brought them to stay at our home. My mother is an extremely talented knitter, sewer, candlewicker and general crafts woman and was intrigued by […]

August 20th, 2009 | Category: book reviews, customer embroidery, mountmellick embroidery, Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature | Leave a comment

a few new books

Over the past few weeks I’ve either bought or been given a few new books.

“Embroidered Textiles” by Sheila Paine. This is an amazing, thick book detailing the embroidery used around the world in different cultures. It has many, many coloured photos and is wonderful to inspect in great detail.

“The Goodhart Samplers” by Bromiley […]

June 23rd, 2009 | Category: book reviews, left handed embroidery | Leave a comment

Hardanger happiness in Queensland

On Wednesday last week I received an order from Gail in Queensland. As is my custom, I follow up all internet orders with an email telling them when their order will be posted, the address it will be sent to etc, and asking where they learned of Vetty Creations and or our products. Later in […]

March 22nd, 2009 | Category: book reviews, Elegant Hardanger Embroidery, hardanger | Leave a comment

Book review: "Twixt Art and Nature"

I recently bought a copy of “English Embroidery from the Metropolitan Museum of Art, 1580-1700: Twixt Art and Nature”

This is a gorgeous hefty book – 308 pages! It is actually an exhibition catalogue from the exhibition of the same name currently on at The Bard Graduate Center for Studies in the Decorative Arts, Design, […]

March 4th, 2009 | Category: book reviews, Elizabethan embroidery, goldwork | Leave a comment

More reviews of Yvette Stanton needlework books

I received an email this morning from Karen Platt, who, according to her website is primarily known in the UK for her gardening books. Also being interested in creative crafts, she has recently moved into reviewing books on craft, including embroidery books.

Karen has written a completely unsolicited review of each of my books, and […]

January 12th, 2009 | Category: book reviews, Elegant Hardanger Embroidery, Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature, Ukrainian Drawn Thread Embroidery | Leave a comment

Book review – Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature

The other day I received a copy of a book review of “Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature” that was recently featured in Maggie Grey’s Workshop on the Web.

It was a very complimentary review, written by Samantha Packer. I cannot reproduce the whole thing here, due to copyright, but have included a small extract:

The […]

November 17th, 2008 | Category: book reviews, Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature, writing books | 4 comments
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