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Tomorrow I’ll be heading off on my next research trip. It’s more than a little bit exciting! I’m nearly all packed, and as you’ll know if you’ve been reading this blog for a while, I travel with only cabin luggage where possible. This time I’ve managed to keep the weight to about 6kg including the […] Have you visited Vetty Creations on Facebook yet? I have a page on Facebook specifically for Vetty Creations. I post on it quite regularly, usually little snippets of what I’m doing, what I’m working on etc. It’s a little like White Threads “Lite”. I sometimes put links there to things I’ve been reading or products […] For the CIAM patternmaking course that I have been taking over the last year, one of the requirements is to make a fully lined jacket, drafted from your own pattern (of course!) A few weeks ago I finally came up with a sketch of what I wanted to make, having been mulling it over for […] Firstly, I believe that the Sydney region bush fires have made news around the world. I live in Sydney, but I’d like to assure you that I am fine, and the closest fire is about 50km away from us. We have prepared our home for bush fire, though I still have a little more to […] When I teach Hardanger and Portuguese Whitework I take my embroidery scissors around the class with me as I teach and demonstrate. Often students will discover that their embroidery scissors are just not up to the job of careful cutting threads next to stitching. They may be too big and chunky, or they may be […] Every now and again I post about Mountmellick threads. When people are wanting to try Mountmellick embroidery, they often come to me for supplies. You wouldn’t think that would be so strange, seeing I’ve written a book on the subject. However, I’m not sure that’s what draws them to my website. Sometimes, I think it […] Today I received my copy of Inspirations 76. It is a lovely magazine, as always. Deborah’s Mountmellick tablecloth is simply gorgeous! In the project I have in the magazine – a Portuguese whitework scissor fob called “Squared Away” – I did discover one or two things that I felt were unclear in the diagrams, so […] Yesterday I received a sad and heartfelt email from an embroiderer. I could feel her pain as I read her email: I just completed a small embroidery and the red thread bled. Oh dear. I was looking on the net for advice and came across your blog entry about testing a red thread. My question […] Following on from yesterday, in which Lilian told us about her experiments with withdrawing threads after prewashing her fabric, today we look at the effect of pulling bars tight and rippled hems. In yesterday’s post, Lilian posed the question: “Now I am worried that when the fabric does not shrink after embroidering it, will the […] Some weeks ago I did a series on 38 count linen and whether it was evenweave or not. At the time, Lilian from the Netherlands had been corresponding with me about this issue. After my post on prewashing, Lilian posed the question: “Is it true that after you’ve washed the linen, it’s hard to take […] |
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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