If any of you are in Hobart (or nearby) you might like to know that I will be teaching a Mountmellick embroidery class at A Stitch in Time on 29th and 30th of September. The project will be my Honeysuckle and Rose Doily. You can find out more details and book through the shop itself: […]
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I apologise for the lack of post on Friday. I had nothing to say and a lot to do! I spent the weekend away with some of the women from my church and we had a lovely time together. I took my embroidery with me, and finished off the cushion front for the Portuguese […] When we came back from our sojourn at the Gold Coast, I went looking for my sewing (dressmaking) scissors and could not find them anywhere. I looked all over my computer desk but they weren’t there. I looked all over my other desk but they weren’t there either. They weren’t in the lounge room or […] Well, they loved our samples. Loved them. (I did too!) But… unfortunately the props lady had rather underestimated the time that each item might take, and our samples took them way over budget. Oh dear. I guess if you think that something’s going to take an hour or two, and it ends up taking more […] I used cotton floche for the first time yesterday. I bought a hank of cotton floche a few years back when I was at AllThreads Embroidery, teaching. It was the first time I’d ever seen it in the flesh, though I had heard of it before. I knew it was pretty hard to come […] Last night I received a phone call from someone working on an upcoming dramatic production who needs several identical items, (a “key prop”) embroidered. She couldn’t say what it was for – she could be immediately dismissed from her post – but I have an idea or two. I don’t usually do commissions, but there […] I’m back! We had a lovely week away staying with friends on the Gold Coast. It was warm, sunny and lovely up there. Being about 800km away, we took two days to drive there and back. I decided to see if I could do some stitching in the car. It was too difficult to work […] Yesterday I spent some time fiddling around with a cushion design. I design on computer, placing motifs and elements on a grid which represents the fabric. This means I can move things around easily, try things out, and get a good visual idea of how things are working. I went through a few different possibilities […] Now that the craft show is over, I am getting stuck back into writing the Portuguese whitework book, and its certainly not a chore! I have done the stitching for possibly about half the projects, but still need to work on some more. I think I’d like to work on a cushion next, but the […] Yesterday I spent my demonstrating sessions at the show working on a Hardanger embroidery. I had bought some Cottage Garden Threads the day before, and was eager to try them out. I was a bit disappointed that the perle threads don’t come in perle 5, so I bought stranded cotton instead. Who says you can’t […] |
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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