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I thought you might like to hear about the progress on the next book, despite the fact that you still don’t know what it is about! If you’ve been reading carefully, you may have gathered by now that it is an historical, counted, whitework embroidery from Europe. Nothing you wouldn’t expect from me. 🙂 I’ve […] On Sunday I received a lovely review of my latest book, Sardinian Knotted Embroidery, from Julie in Melbourne. “I received your latest book for my birthday! Instead of just drooling over the pictures as I have done with the Portuguese one, I decided to MAKE A START!! Well, doing the edging first before the embroidery […] In July 2005, we took a little trip down the south coast of NSW. While there, we visited Meroogal, a house in Nowra that is administered by the Historic Houses Trust of NSW. The house was built around 1885. The women of the family who lived there, the Thorburns, were accomplished embroiderers. One of the […] When I was in Adelaide, I visited the Silk Legacy exhibition, featuring beautiful Chinese embroidery by Margaret Lee, and embroidery worked in the Chinese style under the tutelage of Margaret Lee. There were also a number of antique pieces from guild collections around Australia. One of the pieces I was particularly struck by (there were […] Sometimes a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing. Last night and this morning I’ve been poring over the many photos I took on my trip to Mystery Country earlier this year. I’ve been trying to figure out the counting of some stitches. I knew a little about some of these stitches already from […] I recently received a tantalising email from Anita L. of Concord, Ontario. She asked me if I’d heard the tale of the creation of Punt ‘e Nù. “No, I don’t think so.” 100 Cose, December 1979 edition Anita first learned of Punt ‘e Nù about 30 years ago, in an old Italian magazine called […] Last Thursday night I arrived back from my research trip in Europe. It was wonderful to see my family again. We’d all missed each other! In the time I was gone, I managed to take over 1000 photos, which The Reader and The Husband have since sat through. The Gymnast gave up well before the […] At the end of September and beginning of October, I will be teaching at Beating Around the Bush needlework conference in Adelaide, Australia. This is always a fabulous conference, with lots of wonderful tutors, students and classes. This year I will be teaching the following classes: Portuguese Whitework Bookmark – Sunday 28th September, 2014 […] Mary Corbet has written an excellent article on the non-availability of fine white threads for whitework embroidery. This is an issue that has caused problems for me on occasions. When I was about to publish my Ukrainian book – which specified broder cotton No 12 as being the best thread to use – I suddenly […] It was so interesting reading the responses to my post on the blog and its repost on the Vetty Creations Facebook page yesterday. Thank you for all the responses – they were very thought provoking. Some of you really tried to think laterally about how I might be able to not go on my research […] |
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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