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Well, that title has really Dickensian overtones, doesn’t it?! About a week ago I posted about an idea I was having for adapting my Christmas decoration into a tetrahedron or triangular pyramid shape. I was reliably informed by several commenters that this shape is now referred to as a humbug, due to the resemblance to […] I’m having an idea. A few years ago, I did a Christmas ornament (pattern available for purchase here) that was a triangular pyramid, or tetrahedron, which you can see in the photo. It was made of a strip that was twice as long as it was wide, or so I recall. I was thinking […] Today at my biblestudy group we will be farewelling a lovely lady who is going home to her native China after a few years here in Australia, and a few years as part of our biblestudy group. In the time she has been here we have grown to love her questions about the Bible and […] In the next little while I have a few more projects – not for my book, unfortunately – that I need to get done. I have another piece of clothing that I need to embellish for Embellish magazine. Its a light and floaty fabric, which to me just says “shadow work please”. So I might […] The other day I received an email from fellow needlework designer, Jennifer Forest, and author asking if I knew of any Australian or New Zealander model stitchers. Unfortunately I don’t. I know that in the US, there are GhostStitchers, who seem very organised and highly professional. However, with us being here in Australia, sending stuff […] When I was little my sister and I loved borrowing Ondori books from our local library, which had felt toys and dolls to make. We made quite a few. You can tell the books made quite an impression on me, because how many other craft books do I remember the publisher of, from when I […] Tonight we were reading back through the notebooks we wrote in when our kids were very little; the silly things they said and did, and their latest achievements. We were actually trying to find out when they crawled and walked, for a medical questionnaire. Do you think we recorded that anywhere? Nope! One of the […] Yesterday I was considering doing some embroidery in red thread. It was Presencia brand perle, which I have not used before. So before I even put it anywhere near the white fabric I was going to use, I wanted to test its colourfastness (or “colorfastness” for those who prefer to spell it that way!) I […] I’ve mentioned before that each Christmas I make tree decorations for my husband’s staff and my daughters’ teachers and tutors. I’ve been plugging away at them and have now finished the embroidery of 17 of them. I think that I have only one or two more to do. What I have found interesting about this […] You may have noticed that I didn’t post here on White Threads yesterday. That’s because I’ve decided that I might not always post on Sundays. I trust that you’ll be able to manage a day without me…! Our weekend was very busy. One of my daughters does drama and needed a new leotard for 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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