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Here’s a picture of my niece’s shadow work lampshade in progress. (I think I’m fairly safe in posting this here, because I don’t think my sister reads my blog, so no cats will be let out of any bags.) I’m in the process of stretching it onto the frame, and when that’s satisfactorily done (which […] Yesterday I received something very special in the mail. I have a friend whom I have never met, but we have a reasonable amount in common. We are both left-handed, share a love of embroidery and also a lack of love of prolonged serious illness. I don’t remember where we first “met”. Probably some blog […] 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 […] Well, that title has really Dickensian overtones, doesn’t it?! About a week ago I posted about an idea I was having for adapting my Christmas decoration into a tetrahedron or triangular pyramid shape. I was reliably informed by several commenters that this shape is now referred to as a humbug, due to the resemblance to […] I decided that despite having a few projects that are just a little bit pressing, yesterday I needed ME time. I needed to feel like I was making progress on MY projects for my book on Portuguese whitework. And so after racing off in the morning to the toy sale at a local department store […] In the next little while I have a few more projects – not for my book, unfortunately – that I need to get done. I have another piece of clothing that I need to embellish for Embellish magazine. Its a light and floaty fabric, which to me just says “shadow work please”. So I might […] Every year at about this time The Gift of Stitching Magazine puts out its annual Christmas ornament issue, and this year I’m in it! You can sort of see my ornament in the top left corner of the cover, right behind the “o”. I started designing it when I was at the craft show that […] Yesterday I spent the day working on diagrams for a blackwork project for a magazine. Its not one of my designs though – I’m just the technical illustrator. I found myself full of admiration for people who design blackwork filling patterns. Working out the stitching order of the double running stitch (also known as Holbein […] |
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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