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A few days ago we visited the Sydney Royal Easter Show. As a past winner several times over, I am always interested to see the exhibits in the arts and crafts section. The Hardanger category seemed to only have 4 entries this year, but they were all amazing! Really detailed, huge projects, which were extremely […] On Wednesday last week I received an order from Gail in Queensland. As is my custom, I follow up all internet orders with an email telling them when their order will be posted, the address it will be sent to etc, and asking where they learned of Vetty Creations and or our products. Later in […] I would like to pay tribute to one of my textiles teachers. Miss Gurney was my teacher for several years when I was doing Textiles and Design at school. She was a great teacher, and taught me a lot about machine sewing, hand sewing and hand embroidery. Textiles was one of my favourite subjects at […] Following on from yesterday’s little chat about eyelets, following are some tips for working more open eyelets. Part of the problem when creating eyelets is that some people bring their needle up in the centre of the eyelet and insert it into the fabric again at the edge. Then they bring the needle up again […] If you’re like me, you’ll enjoy reading Mary Corbet’s blog Needle N Thread. One of Mary’s current projects is a whitework sampler. She plans to use many different types of whitework embroidery on it, including Merezhka Poltavska (she’s using one of the learning samplers from my book Ukrainian Drawn Thread Embroidery), Mountmellick (again she […] Yesterday I received my program/class list booklet for Country Bumpkin’s Beating around the Bush Needlework Convention. I’ll be teaching Mountmellick, Merezhka and Hardanger embroidery at it. Reading through the brochure, I can’t wait to go! I’ve never been to an embroidery convention before. I think it will be so wonderful to spend a week with […] Was thinking this morning about when Hardanger embroidery is unfortunately displayed in magazines with the back of the piece showing, rather than the front. There have been a number of times in my career where I have submitted Hardanger for publication in magazines and books, and they have been photographed with the back showing. I […] Since I found such a lot of amazing embroidery in Portugal, and not having known that I would, I have been wondering if there are other places in the world where there is a surprising amount of traditional embroidery. I guess if you went to Hardanger in Norway, you’d expect to find some Hardanger […] I have now finished my projects for “Beating Around the Bush”. I still have to write all the blurbs to go with them, but at least the projects are done. I’m not sure that I’m allowed to show them to you yet. About 5 years ago, I used to teach an embroidery class at my […] I have updated my classes page on the Vetty Creations website. I have put in additional class descriptions and new photos of projects. This should give you a more up-to-date view of what I will be teaching where this year. Below left is the passionflower cushion that we will be working on at Oatley […] |
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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