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On Friday I received my copy of the latest issue of “Inspirations” magazine. In it I have a new Hardanger project published. The project was a collaboration between me and Janie Hubble. At the Sydney Craft and Quilt Fair last year I found some lovely scrummy Cottage Garden Threads colours and felt that I just [...] I mentioned the other day that my favourite project out of the latest Inspirations magazine is a footstool by Hazel Blomkamp. I can’t put a photo of it here without breaching copyright, but I can provide a link to a page where there is a photo of it for you to see. If you click [...]
Anna Scott of Country Bumpkin Publications and Yvette Stanton at the launch of Inspirations 70. Yvette is displaying an embroidered Ethiopian blouse Welcome to all those who have come to visit via the Country Bumpkin webletter! While you’re here, why not sign up to enjoy White Threads delivered to your inbox daily? Just click on [...] Yesterday I spent a wonderful day in Adelaide. I was there to be the guest speaker at Country Bumpkin‘s launch of Issue 70, speaking on my time in Ethiopia and particularly my visit to the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital. This was to tie in with the article that I have written for Issue 70 on [...] Today I’m off to Adelaide to speak at the launch of Inspirations magazine Issue 70. I have an article in the magazine on my visit to the Addis Ababa Fistula Hospital, when we were there at the beginning of last year. I also have a project in the magazine: a shadow embroidery curtain featuring fluttery [...] Yesterday was International Women’s Day (in the middle of Bacon Week – bet you didn’t know that!) and was the day that I found out that I’ve made it on the cover of the next issue of Inspirations Magazine. Not a project this time, but an article. The cover says “Yvette Stanton visits a very [...] Firstly, today I want to say a heartfelt thank you to those lovely people who emailed me yesterday or posted a comment to encourage me. I really appreciate the time you took to write to me explaining why what I do has made a difference to your life. It does put things into perspective. Yesterday [...] Recently I received a lovely email from Marjolein in the Netherlands. Marjolein was wanting to share some pictures with me, of a hardanger needlecase that she has made, featuring one of the projects from my book Elegant Hardanger Embroidery. Square sampler from Elegant Hardanger Embroidery, stitched by Marjolein from the Netherlands made up [...] I’ve recently finished reading The Lady and The Unicorn by Tracy Chevalier. It was interesting to read her fictional story of how the tapestries came to be, and the family and people around them. I love the Unicorn tapestries. They are just gorgeous, and when we were in New York several years ago, we visited [...] A new review for “The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion” has appeared on the Country Bumpkin website and in the latest edition of Inspirations magazine. Here is an excerpt: Every time a new embroidery book is published, a huge collective sigh of disappointment emerges from that most neglected group of embroiderers; the left-handers. This book should put [...] |
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