If any of you are in Hobart (or nearby) you might like to know that I will be teaching a Mountmellick embroidery class at A Stitch in Time on 29th and 30th of September. The project will be my Honeysuckle and Rose Doily. You can find out more details and book through the shop itself: […]
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Just wanted to show you that there’s a reason for having very little to say at the moment – I’ve just been too busy with technique pages for my Portuguese Whitework book. So here’s a page from the book that I did yesterday. To give you an idea of how slow-going it can be, I […] Yesterday I spent some time fiddling around with a cushion design. I design on computer, placing motifs and elements on a grid which represents the fabric. This means I can move things around easily, try things out, and get a good visual idea of how things are working. I went through a few different possibilities […] Yesterday I spent my demonstrating sessions at the show working on a Hardanger embroidery. I had bought some Cottage Garden Threads the day before, and was eager to try them out. I was a bit disappointed that the perle threads don’t come in perle 5, so I bought stranded cotton instead. Who says you can’t […] I am going to be an *awful* tease today. On Friday afternoon I designed a highly possible cover for my new Portuguese whitework book. I need the cover for publicity purposes for the Sydney Craft and Quilt Show in a few weeks time. But its too early to show you here, as I don’t even […] You’ll be pleased to know that I didn’t get any turmeric or berbere (bright red spice mix with paprika and chilli type colouring) on my tablecloth yesterday. In fact I didn’t get any embroidery on it either! I did some planning for the surface embroidery – worked out the beginnings of a chart for it […] As you may know, I have been regularly contributing to Embellish Magazine, which is a young magazine primarily about the embellishment of fabric and clothing. I have been asked to provide an embroidery project for each issue. Sometimes they send me the clothes to work on, and sometimes I provide something. The issue I am […] I’d really love to have a prospective cover for my upcoming book “Portuguese Whitework” on show at the Sydney Craft Show in June. That means that I need to get onto it now. It usually takes a while for me to start “seeing” properly when I do photography. It takes me several film’s worth (what […] I’ve been doing some work on my new little Cosmo bookmark kits. I called the distributor of the thread and unfortunately they said they don’t have a colour card. They emailed me a file which has a basically useless chart showing little photographic “swatches” of colour stripes that you’re supposed to choose colours from. I […] After I came back from Brisbane I said that I was waiting for the chance to play with the Cosmo Seasons threads that I bought from All Threads Embroidery. Well, I finally got the chance to do this on the weekend. Lately because I have been working so hard during the week I have been […] |
White Threads is the blog of Yvette Stanton, the author, designer, publisher behind Vetty Creations' quality needlework books and embroidery products.
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