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On Saturday night I completed the 28th (and final!) diamond motif on my tablecloth! Happy Day! There is still a lot more to be completed – borders, filling in bits between the diamonds and the hemming. But huge progress has been made, so I’m celebrating! On Friday I completed a very small, but elegant project […] On Sunday I taught a class for the NSW smockers guild. We did Mountmellick embroidery – they do things other than smocking! – and had a lovely time. It seemed they particularly enjoyed realising that the things they were learning in the class could be applied to other styles of embroidery. Of course! 🙂 Because […] Well, it’s school holidays here again, several weeks after it really felt like it should have been holidays (Easter time). This term feels like it went extremely quickly for me, but that’s probably because I’ve been away teaching so much (too much!). These holidays I will be doing a lot of sewing (dressmaking) with The […] Tomorrow and Sunday I will be teaching a Portuguese whitework class at A Stitch in Time, here in Hobart. I’ve actually been here a few days now, and have enjoyed some of the sights. Yesterday I had the delight of finding an “Edwardian carver cloth” in an antique shop. Despite the guy who sold it […] To pre-wash or not to pre-wash, that is the question. Thanks to you, my lovely readers, over the last few days I have had some quite challenging questions. The main ones run along the lines of “do you pre-wash your linen before you count?” and “why don’t you pre-wash your linen before you count?” Excellent […] The Reader and I started our CIAM pattern making course on the weekend. We drafted front and back bodices, according to our measurements. In the two weeks before the next class we have to use one of the patterns we drafted (we drafted more than one, because there are different dart placements possible, especially for […] |
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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