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On Friday I received my copy of the latest issue of “Inspirations” magazine. In it I have a new Hardanger project published. The project was a collaboration between me and Janie Hubble. At the Sydney Craft and Quilt Fair last year I found some lovely scrummy Cottage Garden Threads colours and felt that I just [...] Welcome to 2012! And a particular welcome if you’re joining us here for the first time after visiting Mary Corbet’s Needle’nThread! Why not subscribe to White Threads while you’re here?
'Portuguese Whitework: Bullion Embroidery from Guimarães' by Yvette Stanton, due for release in early 2012. 2011 has been a year of hard slog for me. [...] I told you that I probably wouldn’t post this week, however, for Christmas I received a particularly special gift. Because I have only just gotten my drivers licence, for the whole of last term, I was taking Rainbow Girl to gymnastics on the train each gym day, and then coming home to Elder Daughter, [...] I called my favourite local needlework shop yesterday to check whether they had the balls of DMC pearl cotton that I wanted. As they did, and it was a rainy day I decided to catch bus to the train station, rather than walking. I checked the bus timetable, and found that the bus would be [...] Yesterday I got stuck into the last projects for the book – a set of hanging ornaments. I had some different colours to use, some of which were DMC and some were Presencia threads. Both were pearl 8. The difference was quite pronounced. DMC is marginally thinner, and much more smooth. Presencia is marginally thicker [...] I spent some time on the weekend taking more photographs of embroideries for “Portuguese Whitework”. I took delivery of the cupcakes I had ordered from a friend so that I could use them as props for one of my photos. They were absolutely gorgeous, and I was really pleased with how the resulting photo of [...] Just in case you haven’t been reading the comments from Friday’s post, I’m making this into a post of its own, because it contains Really Useful Information. After showing you my damp stretching set up on Friday, Kathryn asked for a better description of “spongy mats” – a great question! I have heard of people [...] I finally finished all the hemming yesterday. I’ve now got the tablecloth soaking in a bucket so that I can carefully go around the whole thing and remove the wash out pencil marks. I’ve found that unfortunately, due to the density of the bullion stitches, the wash out pencil marks don’t simply disappear in [...] I know, this is getting a bit repetitive, isn’t it? I finished another hem yesterday, and still have another one to go. I’ll probably try to get it done today. The remaining one is just going to be a machine sewn hem, so it won’t take so long. It will still need its corners neatly [...] Yesterday I finally completed a little square mat that’s been hanging around for ages. If you have been to any of my Portuguese Whitework classes or saw me at the Sydney Craft and Quilt show back in June, you’ll have seen it without a hem. Well, now it finally has a hem! I mitred the [...] |
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The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion: a step-by-step stitch dictionary and The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion: a step-by-step stitch dictionary by Yvette Stanton. Available for purchase now! You can see turn-the-page previews of my books at
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