I can’t remember a year when the kids have finished school so far before Christmas in the past. They finished last Wednesday, which gives us about 8 days before Christmas. It means that all the end of year breakups have already happened, and all the gifts for teachers, staff, students etc have been made and […]
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Yesterday I completed the lampshade for my new niece. Elmsley Rose suggested using two colours for the binding, which I hadn’t thought of, and that made me think of using piping with the binding. So, thanks to Elmsley Rose, I ended up using pink binding with green piping. I wanted the piping to […] My ornament sent to Carole. ‘Green and Gold’ by Yvette Stanton, published in November 2010 issue of The Gift of Stitching magazine There are a number of us taking part in a Christmas ornament swap this year. I know that some people have sent theirs off to their recipient, because they’ve told me. And […] Here’s a picture of my niece’s shadow work lampshade in progress. (I think I’m fairly safe in posting this here, because I don’t think my sister reads my blog, so no cats will be let out of any bags.) I’m in the process of stretching it onto the frame, and when that’s satisfactorily done (which […] This week I have been working on a Christmas present for my 5 week old niece. I made a lampshade for each of the other children in the family when they were born, so my new niece “expected” one also from Auntie Yvette. I really like the idea of shadow embroidery on lampshades because […] The other day my husband (who is a school librarian) was telling me about a final year student and her textiles project. She wants to do a whole mermaid/under the sea themed outfit. Part of this was that she wanted to create a fishing net. He asked me to put it on my blog to […] Today I’ll be sending off my ornament for the 2010 Vetty Creations Christmas ornament swap. If you’re taking part, you’ll probably need to be sending yours off as soon as possible so that it reaches its recipient a good time before Christmas so that they can enjoy it! If you could email me or comment […] I’ve done something. Yesterday I made my first biscornu. I know, I know! You’re as surprised as I am! I was sewing up some of my Christmas decorations to give as gifts and I suddenly thought that I should see how it would turn out if I made one into a biscornu. So I did. […] Quite often I’ll be working on an embroidery design, and I can feel that its just not working right. Something isn’t right. Sometimes I KNOW where the problem is, and sometimes its hard to know what’s the problem. Often I try to ignore it and hope that with the finished product it will all just […] I was thinking this morning about the nebulous and strange process that is getting inspiration for embroideries. So how does it happen? Where do my ideas come from? Usually my inspiration comes through having a problem to solve. It could be as simple as the fact that I need to make an embroidered lampshade for […] |
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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