Last week I started a new project for the book: a sampler featuring 36 different bullion motifs. It is SO much fun! 36 different motifs – there’s never a dull moment! I am enjoying the fact that after spending months working on a tablecloth that had two main motifs worked millions of times over (ok, […]
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I had been planning on entering my Portuguese Whitework tablecloth in the Arts and Crafts section of next year’s Sydney Royal Easter Show. It is the embroidery that I have been most proud of in a very long time, and therefore wanted to show it off and see how it went in open competition. The […] I spent the last few days madly working on my new project for the book. It is a sampler which will have a large number of bullion stitch motifs on it. It will be an excellent reference piece because of all the different motifs featured on it. Except that they’re not there yet! I did […] A little while ago we purchased a new iron as our old one had gone up in a puff of smoke. The one we purchased had a really bad design fault: the cord came out the bottom of the iron and interfered with the stability of the iron when it sat upright on the ironing […] I updated some things on the blog software last night and was thrilled to see that the spaces are back after punctuation! I don’t know if it had been bothering you, but it had certainly been bothering me. I just had no idea what to do about it. I figured it was a software problem […] This morning I have series of words for you, sourced from Thesaurus.com: all, entire, exhaustive, full, replete, thorough, unabbreviated, unabridged, whole. These are some of the words used to explain the word “complete”. And some more: accomplish, achieve, bring to a close, cease, close, complete, conclude, culminate, end, finalize, fulfill, put finishing touches on, […] I have a new personal goal that hopefully will only stand for a few days. I want to finish the embroidery on the tablecloth by the end of the week! Finishing the tablecloth completely (hemming, damp stretching etc) will not be possible to fit into the week, so I’m making my goal achievable. That’s all […] I spent part of the day yesterday trying to nut through the idea of getting larger print runs (at a lower cost per book) and then having to store more. It suddenly occurred to me that with the significant savings from larger print runs, I might still be better off even if I had to […] Last year here at White Threads I organised a Christmas ornament exchange. I have been wondering about whether to run it again, as I’m not sure it was entirely successful last year. I just wasn’t sure that everyone received their ornaments. However, no-one let me know that they *didn’t* receive the one that was promised […] When I am teaching French knots, it in variably comes up – either by me or a student – that some people maintain that French knots should only ever have one wrap. The idea is that if you need a bigger knot, you use a thicker thread. I don’t subscribe to this point of view, […] |
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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