We’ve just had a long weekend here, to celebrate the Queen’s birthday (which is nowhere near this date!). In our state, travel restrictions have been relaxed a bit, which meant we were able to travel to Sydney to see my daughter and other relatives. While there, I saw my aunt who had some family textiles […]
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When I started this FlossTube series I was wearing a piece of embroidery each day until they ran out. I wore embroidered shirts, an embroidered scarf, and many embroidered pendants. But I didn’t show you all my embroidered pendants… because I had lost four of them, all in one go. It was not a happy […] There are so many rules around cross stitch that most of us don’t know when we first start out, and then we have them unceremoniously dumped on us when we proudly show someone our first cross stitch, where the stitches cross every which way. “Oh, no, all the crosses should cross in the same direction.” […] I have spent a lot of time in museums studying embroidery, while researching my embroidery books. One very memorable day for me was seeing a very old cross-stitched textile. The crosses went every which way. It was a charming piece, and a revelation to me. The stitcher had not cared which way their stitches went, […] In this White Threads FlossTube video, Yvette presents a talk she gave at a conference dinner early in 2019 at The Auckland Great Escape. It is about the research for the book she is currently working on, though obviously when she originally presented the talk she was at an earlier stage in the book process. […] In this tutorial, Yvette demonstrates the method she uses for the eyelets in Portuguese whitework. These are non-counted eyelets. (She has already done a great tutorial for counted eyelets.) These eyelets also include Yvette’s revolutionary method for starting and finishing which mean you can have an eyelet in the middle of an expanse of fabric, […] In today’s episode of White Threads FlossTube, following the suggestion that people would like to know more about what’s on my bookshelves (they were my background in the previous episode), I review Bunad Magazine from Norway. It’s a visually delicious magazine about folk and regional costume in Norway, in Norwegian language only, but that’s never […] Some people have expressed an interest in knowing the things that are in my embroidery kit. Today I tell you all about my favourite hoop (it’s a Klass and Gessmann 8 inch hoop with stand) and why I love it. If you are reading this in an email, you can find the video here […] Does the end of your stitch make a difference? Does it make a difference whether the thread that leads into the stitch remains straight (like in running stitch) or folds (like in back stitch)? This is something I have been thinking about, so I investigated whether it changes the look of the stitch. I […] In this video tutorial, Yvette teaches you how to make traditional Norwegian knotted picots as were used in historical examples of Hardanger embroidery. These picots can be used anywhere picots are required, such as in Hardanger embroidery, on needlelace edgings, drawn thread borders etc. She shows examples of picots used on the cuff and collars […] |
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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