Last week when I was sick, I received a rather exciting parcel in the mail. I just wasn’t well enough to get excited about it at the time, though! However, now I am back in the land of the living, I’ve opened it up and enjoyed looking at it (and I’m sure I’ll enjoy stitching […]
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Back in April I heard an intriguing story on the radio news about a grant that had been awarded to a community group to knit a garden. I then followed up on the story and introduced us all to the Griffith Natty Knitters. We found out how they were in the process of knitting a […] To follow up on the needlework Christmas ornament swap I proposed a little while back, we have already had a good number of people indicate that they want to join in, which is great. But I want to allow the opportunity for anyone else to also join in. I will set the deadline for signing […] For my new book, I’ll be working with 38 count linen. This means that the linen has 38 threads per inch, in both directions of the fabric – warp (down the length of the fabric) and weft (across the width of the fabric). 38 count linen is also known as Linen 20 or 20L linen […] If you visited the Vetty Creations Facebook page yesterday, you will know that I was planning to stitch some butterflies. Did it happen? No. Unfortunately I ran out of time. With it being holidays, my focus at the moment is more on my kids than it normally is when they are at school. They have […] To follow on from my post the other day about my Hardanger ornament with the organza overlay, I thought that you might like to see some of my other projects that feature this technique. If you’d like to join our Christmas ornament swap, all the details can be found here. First we have a needlecase, […] Yesterday I spent some time planning a project for a class next year. The class is possibly going to be on a type of Portuguese embroidery, but to get the shop to agree, I need to show them an example of what I mean. In this case, that means stitching it. How sad, to have […] To help get you in the mood for our Christmas ornament swap (which will definitely go ahead as we already have a number signed up), I thought that you might like to see some of the ornaments that I have designed and made in the past. If you’d like to join in our Christmas […] Some that I have received (the two lovely ones on the left) and others that I have made Every year I make Christmas decorations as gifts for my husband’s staff, my daughters’ teachers and instructors, and for some special people. It usually ends up that I need to make between 10 and 20, […] We have school holidays coming up here quite soon. I’ve planned that I will do some creative things with my daughters then. The other night at the opening of the Stitch+Stitch=Magic exhibition I was talking with a lovely lady, Gail Davis, who had felted the background for her embroidery. I asked her a bit about […] |
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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