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In July 2011, I received a phone call out of the blue from someone in a movie props department. She needed some handkerchiefs embroidered as props for a major movie that was being produced. Would I be able to help them? Um, sure! I conscripted my sister to help me, and together we embroidered two […] I must say I have been particularly indulgent this week. I have stitched for most of the week, and it does mean that I have gotten an awful lot done! I put aside the large project I was working on yesterday to work on a small one for a specific purpose. The small project is […] Yesterday I had a lovely day of stitching, working on my latest whitework project. It is progressing really well, and I am enjoying seeing it grow and change as it nears completion. I think that I might even have the embroidery finished by the end of the week. Then I’ll need to design the next […] Can someone please let me in on the secret? Why is it that pretty much all the books I am selling at the moment and nearly all the supplies are for Mountmellick embroidery? (I’m not complaining!) Did someone decide to make 2013 the year of Mountmellick embroidery, but forgot to tell me? From all around […] My delivery of assorted scissors arrived yesterday and amongst them there were two that I found to be excellent. I do intend to go through and explain to you what is so wonderful about them, but yesterday wasn’t the day to get it all prepared. Yesterday I had a different day than I had planned […] Whenever I teach a class I take my little scissors with me and they travel around the classroom as I go. Invariably, because I am comfortable with them, I use them when demonstrating how to cut threads in Portuguese Whitework and Hardanger embroidery. In Portuguese Whitework, there are usually eight threads to be cut […] I spent much of the day yesterday stitching, stitching, stitching. I am madly working on class submissions. I have five to do. Two are partially done, one is finished and the other are still in the thought process. Some are styles I have taught before, and others are new to me as class subjects. It […] No, I haven’t fallen off the face of the earth! I’ve been busily working away writing instructions for kits and putting all the elements together to make the kits for the cruise. Making sure I have *everything* is really important, because there won’t be any needlework shops I can just pop down to when I’m […] Teaching Kids to be Business Savvy, Sydney Morning Herald As someone who has created my own business, I found the above article very interesting. I never planned to start my own business when I left school. I imagined I’d be working for someone else, and for a time, I was. However, when I was at […] When I went away overnight the other day, I suggested that I would get about 1.5 hours of stitching time each way, there and back. I calculated wrongly – actually it was more like 2.5 hours each way! However, due to the fact that I kept making mistakes, I didn’t end up having very much […] |
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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