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I recently received a lovely email from a customer, who gave me permission to share it with you. Hello Yvette My Aunt and Uncle were visiting from Sydney and my mother brought them to stay at our home. My mother is an extremely talented knitter, sewer, candlewicker and general crafts woman and was intrigued by […] I received a lovely email from a customer the other day, who has been teaching herself how to do Mountmellick embroidery. I include some of if below. By the way, I haven’t sent a picture of the problem I was having with Palestrina stitch, but I did notice that the instructions in Inspirations magazine which […] Today I have two reader’s embroideries to share with you. Mimi is from Hong Kong and has recently been enjoying Mountmellick embroidery. Following is her first piece of Mountmellick embroidery – it is the framed flower spray from our book Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature. I think her embroidery looks very beautiful and she has […] I have had a number of enquiries about the instructions for cable plait stitch, to use with the Snow White mountmellick tablecloth. The instructions for this stitch have not been included in the most recent issue of Inspirations magazine, in which Snow White has recently been published. When Inspirations publishes a project, they often can […] Today I received a photo from one of my customers, Pam. This is the first Mountmellick embroidery that she has ever done. Hasn’t she done a lovely job? Embroidery by Pam, from Queensland.The embroidery is an adaptation of one of the designs from our book Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature: the Oval Dogrose Doily. Congratulations […] Happy St Patrick’s Day to you all! I have a little Irish blood within me, and I do love Mountmellick embroidery, which is of course Irish. I have decided this is a great day to celebrate all things Irish (particularly Mountmellick embroidery) and am therefore very pleased to announce that we now have our new […] I received an email this morning from Karen Platt, who, according to her website is primarily known in the UK for her gardening books. Also being interested in creative crafts, she has recently moved into reviewing books on craft, including embroidery books. Karen has written a completely unsolicited review of each of my books, and […] The other day I received a copy of a book review of “Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature” that was recently featured in Maggie Grey’s Workshop on the Web. It was a very complimentary review, written by Samantha Packer. I cannot reproduce the whole thing here, due to copyright, but have included a small extract: The […] Its now time to unveil the cover of our new book “Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature”, the 2nd edition, which is fully revised and expanded. Drum roll please… Ta Da!!! The cover shows a close-up of a vintage Mountmellick blackberry nightdress case, with the most gorgeously yummy stitching! As with my most recent covers, I […] Well, its been a few weeks since I last posted, but there’s been a really good reason for that! I finally got my book “Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature” off to the publishers. What a relief! Then, as I surveyed my office the next morning, I realised that I needed to reprint “Elegant Hardanger Embroidery”, […] |
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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