In April 2012, Country Bumpkin’s needlework conference, Beating Around the Bush, will be on again and I’ll be teaching at it. It will run from Saturday 14th April until Friday 20th April 2012 in Adelaide Australia. I will have three classes, and over the next few days will tell you about them. Bookings opened last […]
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Just a note to those who are likely to want me to come and teach for their shop, community or guild group next year. I am taking a lot of bookings – it seems people really want to learn Portuguese Whitework! – so if you’re interested, get in quick. I do limit my quantity of […] When you try out a new stitch, what do you do? When I try out a new stitch, I try to play with it as much as possible. In my playing with unusual stitches class in Maitland last week, my aim for the students was to get them to try some new stitches, and then […] On Tuesday and Wednesday I was in Maitland (in the Hunter region, north of Sydney) for two classes. One was a two day Mountmellick workshop, and the other was a two hour evening class where we played with some unusual embroidery stitches. By all reports and by the responses I heard, people really enjoyed the […] Well, you’re not a very adventurous group, are you? I only had one response to asking if anyone could guess the five stitches in my Playing with Unusual Stitches class that I’ll be teaching tonight! Rachel suggested “Spiral Trellis and Palestrina stitch, maybe Herringbone? And Braid stitch”. Not bad, Rachel. The five stitches are: Cable […] I’m not wanting to make my blog into a ranting political statement, but here’s my thought for the day: “I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already […] I took my Portuguese whitework with me to Singleton, to work on the rather long train trip. During the class, I was talking with the ladies about good hoops for Mountmellick embroidery, and explained that deep hoops such as mine are really good for Mountmellick because they have more wood to grip onto the fabric […] I’m thinking about new projects for my Portuguese whitework book, and I’m thinking about project applications. We probably all have our walls full of embroidery by now (and its expensive getting things framed), so what are some other items that you like to make when decorated with embroidery? I’m thinking cushions pillows bags runners […] On Saturday I had a half day just with my younger daughter, age 6. She had expressed a very strong desire to do some embroidery with me. So we did. Firstly she drew a flower on some paper, and I traced it onto the fabric. We were using fabric and thread left over from my […] I will be teaching a class in 2012 on obscure stitches and ones that people often feel are too difficult to attempt. Stitches like plaited braid stitch, spiral trellis, cable plait stitch (they’re the more difficult ones) and diamond stitch, crested chain stitch, spanish knotted chain stitch, and sorbello stitch (they’re some of the unusual […] |
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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