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Recently, as you may have noticed, I’ve been enjoying making clothes. I’ve been enjoying planning and shopping for fabrics for those clothes. I’ve been enjoying designing and creating new embroideries for my new Portuguese whitework book and upcoming classes. I’ve been enjoying making food that fits with my own and others’ dietary/allergy requirements. Now, if […] When I was at uni I studied graphic design. The first year of my course was combined with the similar design courses (fashion and textiles, interior design, and industrial design). It meant it was a very general year, and quite frankly it was really boring! We all wondered whether they deliberately planned it that way […] I’ve done something. Yesterday I made my first biscornu. I know, I know! You’re as surprised as I am! I was sewing up some of my Christmas decorations to give as gifts and I suddenly thought that I should see how it would turn out if I made one into a biscornu. So I did. […] Quite often I’ll be working on an embroidery design, and I can feel that its just not working right. Something isn’t right. Sometimes I KNOW where the problem is, and sometimes its hard to know what’s the problem. Often I try to ignore it and hope that with the finished product it will all just […] I was thinking this morning about the nebulous and strange process that is getting inspiration for embroideries. So how does it happen? Where do my ideas come from? Usually my inspiration comes through having a problem to solve. It could be as simple as the fact that I need to make an embroidered lampshade for […] Every year at about this time The Gift of Stitching Magazine puts out its annual Christmas ornament issue, and this year I’m in it! You can sort of see my ornament in the top left corner of the cover, right behind the “o”. I started designing it when I was at the craft show that […] I’ve mentioned before that each Christmas I make tree decorations for my husband’s staff and my daughters’ teachers and tutors. I’ve been plugging away at them and have now finished the embroidery of 17 of them. I think that I have only one or two more to do. What I have found interesting about this […] Yesterday I spent some time planning a project for a class next year. The class is possibly going to be on a type of Portuguese embroidery, but to get the shop to agree, I need to show them an example of what I mean. In this case, that means stitching it. How sad, to have […] To help get you in the mood for our Christmas ornament swap (which will definitely go ahead as we already have a number signed up), I thought that you might like to see some of the ornaments that I have designed and made in the past. If you’d like to join in our Christmas […] Yesterday I spent the day drawing butterflies. Last week I asked my husband to bring home a pile of books on butterflies from the library that he works at. I spent the morning looking at the books gathering information. Then I drew butterflies, and more butterflies. They are such pretty creatures! The butterflies are […] |
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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