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Yesterday I had an email conversation with a friend who is left-handed. She has a copy of my book The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion (and loves it), but she’s about to do some highly technical historical style stitching for which there are no stitch diagrams and instructions in left-handed available. She asked me if mirroring will […] I was talking with the ladies in my beginner’s Hardanger class yesterday about my “depressing” list of books that I have to find time to write. (Its only depressing because it will take me 7-14 years to get through them all!) They wanted to know if any of them were Hardanger. I think there was […] Its getting colder here in Sydney, and feeling more wintery. For many of you though, our winter temperatures aren’t what you might think of as winter, but for us, they are cold! I’ve been thinking that I’d like a beret, so when I saw some nice ones on special yesterday, I decide to buy a […] I have an idea percolating around in my head. It’ll probably never happen, but I’m thinking about it! Following my enjoyable experiences working with Colourstreams hand-dyed wool felt for my left- and right-handed stitch dictionaries, I have recently learned of a thing called prefelt. My question was “What is prefelt?” Really, its just that – […] Mary Corbet made an interesting observation the other day. She pointed out that many older instructional embroidery books have many more words and few diagrams/photos, whereas newer embroidery instructional embroidery books have many diagrams/photos and fewer words. This is quite true. I think about one of my favourite old stitch dictionaries (published in 1934), Mary […] If you’re like me, you’ll love reading Mary Corbet’s Needle’nThread. She’s had a complete makeover. I love the colours and feel of the new website. It will take a little while to get used to where things are found, but I’m sure I’ll soon be alright. I had a bit of a look around there […] I am going to go out on a limb here… I don’t understand biscornu. (And I don’t know what the plural for “biscornu” is, or maybe that is plural? If it is plural, what is the singular?) Biscornu are everywhere these days, primarily as counted thread projects. But every time I see some of […] One of the online forums that I participate in was recently discussing whether people design their own embroidery or use other people’s designs. Many people were saying that they like to design their own – including me. Then, one member posted that she did not have a creative bone in her body and she was […] Following on from yesterday, I have been thinking about the stitches that I might teach in the difficult and unusual stitches class that I am planning for Beating Around the Bush 2012. This is the sort of class that really gets me excited, as I love sharing stitches with others, especially ones they’ve never seen […] A very surprising article in the Wall Street Journal on American truckers who knit and quilt. Interesting that they are finding quilting and knitting good pastimes to while away the hours, doing something creative and productive. Something we’ve all known for a long time. I wonder if this will lead to truckin’ music which laments […] |
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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