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On Saturday I had a half day just with my younger daughter, age 6. She had expressed a very strong desire to do some embroidery with me. So we did. Firstly she drew a flower on some paper, and I traced it onto the fabric. We were using fabric and thread left over from my […] This is the last week of the school holidays here, and its going to be hot. It will be filled for us with last minute things to get done before school starts: dentist’s appointments, doctor’s appointments, and maybe a trip to the beach as my daughters really wanted to go some time during the holidays […] I couldn’t leave you hanging, wondering how the dress was going, so here’s a photo of the finished product. I’m very happy with it, and it feels great to wear. Maggy London dress, Butterick B5559 I have some of the fabric left over. Enough to make a sleeveless top. Now I just have […] I dreamt about red tucks and darts last night, which might tell you what I was doing yesterday. I completed the cute little pink leotard for my niece and was able to make a start on creating my Butterick B5559 red dress. WITH sleeves – thanks to all who voted on the sleeves or not […] I spent yesterday working on my current Mountmellick design which is to be submitted as a class proposal for Beating Around the Bush in 2012. I’m having fun! The design is more lilies (we did a lilies design for our Mountmellick stitch along last year) but this time I am using a combination of some […] Last week I put out a request for people to tell me where I might find ponti (or ponte) fabric. I did not expect to be overwhelmed with responses, and I was not! My trip to The Fabric Store in Surry Hills taught me what ponti is, but their selection of colours was not to […] Interesting how your day can turn out completely differently than you expect. With my plans made to tidy my office and then get on with a new Mountmellick project, I decided I’d do a quick bit of work on my Portuguese embroidery book. It was still early and the family was all still in bed […] Yesterday my eldest daughter and I went on a fabric jaunt. We first took the train to Central and went to The Fabric Store in Surry Hills. This is a wonderful shop that has a wonderful range of fabrics, many of which are sourced from designers. Its not unusual to see “from Leona Edmiston” or […] In the next couple of months its my eldest daughter’s birthday. I noted the other day that she has “blue velvet dress” written on her list of suggestions, so I asked her about it. It turns out that she actually wanted crushed panne velvet. But that sent us on a quest for a dress pattern […] When we were down in Canberra last week I bought a wonderful book from the bookshop at the Portrait Gallery. It is called “1000 Artisan Textiles” by Sandra Salamony and Gina M Brown. My husband handed me the book and said “You might like this one,” and I was expecting another interesting book (the cover […] |
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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