Thank you all for your your feedback yesterday on the order of contents in my Portuguese Whitework book. There was no one who said that the step-by-step stitch and technique instructions should come first. Most people said they felt that the projects should come first, and those who didn’t simply said they didn’t think the […]
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There is one type of needles that I use more than any other. This is very much because I do more counted thread embroidery than surface embroidery. My favourite needles are therefore tapestry needles, and more precisely No 24 tapestry needles. Tapestry needles are useful for counted thread work because they have a blunt tip, […] Nothing much to say today. I’ve been slogging away at the techniques pages. To give you an idea of why its taking so long, there are three different methods of overcasting used. For some of the intersections, there are up to eight different variations. And there’s about 4 or more different types of intersections. With […] When we came back from our sojourn at the Gold Coast, I went looking for my sewing (dressmaking) scissors and could not find them anywhere. I looked all over my computer desk but they weren’t there. I looked all over my other desk but they weren’t there either. They weren’t in the lounge room or […] Yesterday I was talking with a lady who wanted to order a copy of Ukrainian Drawn Thread Embroidery for her friend. She said she already has her own copy and loves it. She’s taken the techniques and run with them, having recently completed a merezhka project that she adapted from filet crochet, featuring grapes. I’ve […] Well, they loved our samples. Loved them. (I did too!) But… unfortunately the props lady had rather underestimated the time that each item might take, and our samples took them way over budget. Oh dear. I guess if you think that something’s going to take an hour or two, and it ends up taking more […] I used cotton floche for the first time yesterday. I bought a hank of cotton floche a few years back when I was at AllThreads Embroidery, teaching. It was the first time I’d ever seen it in the flesh, though I had heard of it before. I knew it was pretty hard to come […] For the mystery project I need to create six to ten identical items. We have been supplied with two possible patterns, and need to work a sample of each for them to choose from. Both of them are floral, and one of them has foliage that is variegated. My issue is that working the variegated […] Last night I received a phone call from someone working on an upcoming dramatic production who needs several identical items, (a “key prop”) embroidered. She couldn’t say what it was for – she could be immediately dismissed from her post – but I have an idea or two. I don’t usually do commissions, but there […] Yesterday was my girls’ school’s athletics carnival. I had been planning on going from about lunchtime onwards, but then I realised their races were in the morning, so that I really had to go then. I had wanted to get some work done at home in the morning, and the fact that it was going […] |
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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