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I’ve enjoyed our discussions on variegated thread. It did take a while for some people to tell us that they don’t like them, but I’m glad you did, because I’m interested to hear of your opinions! Today I want to ask about the types of variegated threads that you like. Do you like the ones […] I was recently discussing some of the hot political issues in the needlework world (yes, I know, you can’t really imagine it being a hotbed of politics, can you?!) with someone. One of the perennial hot potatoes is the issue of selling single copies of things at a wholesale price to shops. Why is this […] Just a quick one today. Mary Corbet has brought up the fact that some people love variegated thread and some people hate it. I’d never considered that some people might hate it, because I’m one who loves it. (Except for the horrible ones that DMC first brought out – they are awful!) So I’d like […] I had a lovely day yesterday, meeting with Janie Hubble for lunch. I NEVER have business lunches, because usually there’s just no-one nearby for me to have them with. But yesterday Janie was in town, and we got together to discuss our joint stand at the Sydney Craft and Quilt Fair in June next year. […] I have been enjoying continuing with all my bullion embroidery. I never expected to enjoy it this much, but am finding several things: that my first impressions of the style of embroidery are lasting – it remains as beautiful to me as I first thought it was that practice really does bring improvement when stitching […] Yesterday I was sitting the backyard enjoying the gorgeous weather, working on some more bullions. I realised that the needle that I was using was a darner needle, and not a milliner’s needle. As you know, I, along with many other teachers of embroidery recommend that milliner’s needles (also known as straw needles) are the […] Quite often I’ll be working on an embroidery design, and I can feel that its just not working right. Something isn’t right. Sometimes I KNOW where the problem is, and sometimes its hard to know what’s the problem. Often I try to ignore it and hope that with the finished product it will all just […] This morning I was greeted by an email in my inbox from a lady in the Kenya Guild of Embroiderers in Nairobi. I didn’t even know that such a guild existed, though I’m pretty sure that there wasn’t a similar group in Addis Ababa. The Kenyan group recently had a workshop in Mountmellick embroidery from […] I was thinking this morning about the nebulous and strange process that is getting inspiration for embroideries. So how does it happen? Where do my ideas come from? Usually my inspiration comes through having a problem to solve. It could be as simple as the fact that I need to make an embroidered lampshade for […] My back-ordered catalogue for the Valentino exhibition landed on the doorstep the other day with a loud and heavy thump! Its huge! I haven’t opened the parcel; just passed it on to my husband for him to give it to me for Christmas. A friend who did fashion design at uni recently travelled from Adelaide […] |
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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