I had the most marvellous weekend. On Saturday we had good friends from Ethiopia (though they are Australian actually) over for lunch and served them a yummy Vietnamese dish, which we figured they’d appreciate because Asian style food can be hard to concoct in Ethiopia. I don’t know that fish sauce makes it to Addis […]
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You’ll be pleased to know that I didn’t get any turmeric or berbere (bright red spice mix with paprika and chilli type colouring) on my tablecloth yesterday. In fact I didn’t get any embroidery on it either! I did some planning for the surface embroidery – worked out the beginnings of a chart for it […] I received the latest copy of Embellish magazine yesterday. This issue I have a green beaded shrug in it. The beading is a band along the edge of the sleeves. Its quite simple, but really adds that little something special to the garment. You could also bead similarly down the front of a cardigan or […] As you may know, I have been regularly contributing to Embellish Magazine, which is a young magazine primarily about the embellishment of fabric and clothing. I have been asked to provide an embroidery project for each issue. Sometimes they send me the clothes to work on, and sometimes I provide something. The issue I am […] I was due to go out with friends on Saturday night, and so knitted furiously that afternoon. About an hour before I was due to go out, I finally finished knitting my forest jumper (sweater), which meant that I could wear it out to dinner. I changed the pattern (Baby Cables and Big Ones Too) […] I realised yesterday afternoon that I never told you which of the two wools I decided to go for. I chose the Forest coloured Melody wool – the smooth one. I decided not to just get both, as my life really is quite busy, and while I might be able to devote enough time to […] I wrote a little while back about the fact that I currently have a need to knit. Its getting colder here, and yesterday I wore my first woollen jumper (sweater) of the season. I have a jumper that will need to retire this year, as the elbow is wearing through. Its of just a strange […] With the weather getting colder here, I’m feeling a need to knit! Over the past few years I have knit about one item of clothing each winter season, sometimes for me, sometimes for one of my daughters. For quite some time now, I’ve had a ball of Sirdar Snuggly Baby Bamboo sitting on my desk, […] I had an email conversation with Shingo Sato last week. If you have no idea who I am talking about, head on over to trpattern‘s channel on YouTube and take a look at his amazing pattern design tranformation and reconstruction videos. Shingo’s techniques formed the inspiration for my rainbow dress. I had been watching the […] We found out yesterday that one of our favourite teachers at the girls’ school is leaving at the end of this term (tomorrow!). Both our girls have had her, and had a great time in her class. She’s a very dynamic teacher, who creates a fun and interesting learning experience. As parents, we found her […] |
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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