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“Embroidery in Britain from 1200-1750” is a book that I keep coming back to. I love soaking up the visual delights found in it. This book is a visual survey of some of the delights of the V&A’s textile collection. It includes a couple of essays, then a listing of the plates with sizes and […] I would like to share a book with you that I keep coming back to, time after time. “How to Bead: French Embroidery Beading” by Maisie Jarratt. Before writing this, I headed over to Amazon to see if they had any reviews. Yes, they do, and some of the reviewers did NOT like this book. […] I went along to my local craft, knitting, quilting and needlework shop yesterday. I am very fortunate because I can walk only 15 minutes from my home and be there. I realise that this will make many of you jealous! I was wanting to look at fabrics to use for my samplers. I knew that […] Yesterday my husband and I went to visit the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital. (The girls were at school and my husband was happily granted permission to play hookey for a number of hours!) What a special place that is! I had wanted to visit for a very long time, having read both the books about […] Still thinking about needlework books (actually, come to think of it, when do I ever stop?!). Since my post the other day about favourite needlework books, I’ve got some of you thinking about the embroidery books you can’t do without. What about the books that you have to do without because they haven’t been […] Over the last few days I have reviewed some of the books on my bookshelf. These were some that I used during the writing of my stitch dictionary The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion: a step-by-step stitch dictionary. There were of course, others, and we may get to them in the future. Coming to spend three months […] Another new product today: The Mighty Bright booklight. But we don’t use it as only a booklight – it makes a fabulous portable light for doing embroidery by! I’ve used one of these, and found it to be absolutely wonderful. At the Beating Around the Bush mini market day, these little lights just walked out […] I thought that today I might tell you about one of my favourite needlework items: my hoop. For many years I used cheap and nasty thin little hoops, because they were cheap. Having had some issues with my back, I came to accept that the way I was doing my needlework was not helping my […] Why bother braving the malls and shopping centers, searching for that perfect needlework gift, when you can find it all at Vetty Creations, shopping in the comfort of your own home?! We have embroidery gift ideas for all budgets. Top 5 gift ideas under $50: “Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature” book – THE book for […] |
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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