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Darling Harbour Craft Show coming soon

As with the last two years, this year I will be again exhibiting at the Sydney Craft and Quilt Fair at Darling Harbour in June. This time I will not be sharing, but will have my own stand just for Vetty Creations. I would actually love to be sharing again, because I have really enjoyed [...]

Win a copy of Portuguese Whitework

If you haven’t yet been caught up in the excitement of my new book, head on over to the website of one of my biggest US fans – that would be Mary Corbet’s Needle’nThread! – and get yourself on the list to possibly win a copy of my new book “Portuguese Whitework: Bullion Embroidery from [...]

Mary’s Portuguese Whitework review

Mary Corbet, from Needle’nThread has done it again – a glowing review of my latest book, Portuguese Whitework! Her reviews are so terribly thorough that probably all your questions will have been answered in one go!

Some excerpts from Mary’s review: Well, here it is! Yvette Stanton’s new hand embroidery book, Portuguese Whitework: Bullion Embroidery [...]

getting started with Portuguese Whitework

I have just finished adding the Portuguese Whitework supplies to the Vetty Creations site. You can now get all you need to explore Portuguese Whitework, in one place!

If you’re wanting to get started, I suggest you’ll need the following:

A copy of Portuguese Whitework: Bullion Embroidery from Guimarães A fat eighth of Graziano [...]

Portuguese Whitework supplies

Now that the book, Portuguese Whitework, is getting out there, people are starting to ask “Where can I get the fabric?” The answer is “RIGHT HERE!”

Over the next day or so I will be adding a complete range of Portuguese Whitework supplies to the Vetty Creations website. I already have the stock, so [...]

Adelaide book launch

While in Adelaide, I had the opportunity to launch Portuguese Whitework: Bullion Embroidery from Guimarães. Months before, I had talked with Fiona from Country Bumpkin about the possibility of doing this, but I wasn’t sure that it was going to be possible until I knew that the books were here in Australia in my possession, [...]

Portuguese Whitework now available in Europe!

Portuguese Whitework is now available in Europe!

Its early days yet, so while the big online book retailers (I think you’ll know the ones! Amazon, Book Depository etc.) have it already, it might take a little longer to make it to your favourite needlework store or bookstore. If you want your favourite store to [...]

the mail out begins

Now that I am back from Beating Around the Bush, the HUGE mailout begins! Today I will start sending out pre-publication orders of Portuguese Whitework. There is a huge pile of orders to go out – thank you to everyone who pre-ordered! – so it will probably take some days to get through them all.

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I’m back!

I had a WONDERFUL time in Adelaide at Beating Around the Bush. Enjoyed the class, and market day, and loved hearing Jenny Adin-Christie last night at the gala dinner.

I really enjoyed spending time with the other tutors, socialising and talking shop. I was just a little overawed to meet some of the international [...]

Portuguese Whitework tablecloth

This is my favourite project (and favourite image!) from Portuguese Whitework: Bullion Embroidery from Guimarães. I wanted one really big, really impressive project for the book, and this is it!

I started this cloth when I was in Ethiopia back in 2010, so it has special memories attached to it, of our time in [...]