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It’s been a very quiet week with The Gymnast at home with winter sickness. I’ve been writing lots of stitch instructions and doing their accompanying diagrams, so there are more pages in the next book looking more full now. However, I’ve been a few days without stitching, so it is time to do some more. […] Sometimes a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing. Last night and this morning I’ve been poring over the many photos I took on my trip to Mystery Country earlier this year. I’ve been trying to figure out the counting of some stitches. I knew a little about some of these stitches already from […] Today is International Left-Handed Day, and as I am left-handed, I do enjoy the fact that we get our own special day! I’ve had many interactions over the years with other left-handed stitchers, and many have loved having me as a left-handed embroidery teacher. I have heard horror story after horror story of them being […] Last week I received this email from a reader: Hello, I want to get into stitching but have never really done it before. I’m an at home Mum. Where do you suggest I start? Whoa! That’s actually a really hard question to answer. Of course I’d love to encourage this adventurous lady, but I’m […] Yesterday on the Vetty Creations Facebook page I asked readers what their favourite stitch was. I think mine would be Palestrina stitch because of all the things you can do with it. What’s your favourite embroidery stitch and why? It still hasn’t got any legs or fine features yet, but things are moving on in the world of my little blue wren. I’ve got leaves and branches to do now, then the embroidery. And then I’m going to have to figure out what I’m going to do with this! I am enjoying it, […] I made some progress yesterday on my blue wren (Sandra Leichner’s Wren block, but with my own blue wren instead of her brown one). Not a great deal of progress, because other things got in the way yesterday, but some! It’s a little hard to tell what much of it is. The long bit […] Yesterday I decided it was time to try out a scary new stitch on the embroidery that I’ve been working on. It’s a stitch that’s been on my radar for quite some time, but I’d been too scared to try it. It involved cutting threads and then working very close to unfinished ends. That scared […] It won’t surprise you to know that I haven’t even slightly bothered looking for the needle. But I did get more done in preparation for next week’s craft show! I figure the needle will turn up at some point, and if it doesn’t, oh well… In addition to the responses on the blog, I received […] The other night I was undoing the wrong stitching on my new embroidery piece. I was using a tapestry needle to lift the stitches and pull them out. All was going well (as well as *undoing* can go) until I accidentally let the needle flick out of my fingers as I un-pulled a stitch. It […] |
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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