I was fortunate to get my hands on some gorgeous single ply silks from Stitches and Spice at the craft show. Naomi from Stitches and Spice is a good friend of Kirsten‘s and therefore my friend too by default. She has a lovely new range of single ply silks out, and I was quite [...]
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Yesterday morning when Belinda and I were carting stuff out to the car, a truck pulled up out the front with what looked to be council workers in it. I said “Looks like some guys have come to dig up the footpath or something.” Then I noticed their woodchipper on the back, and realised they [...] I got an email yesterday from my printers to let me know that my advance copies of The Right-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion are currently being couriered to me. Wow! This is earlier than I expected! Before a books shipment is delivered in full, the printer normally sends a couple of “advance copies”, so called because [...] This week I have been working on some embroidery on clothing. The fabric is a fine knit, which means it is a little stretchy. I figured that it would be best to stabilise the fabric before stitching on it, so that it didn’t pull out of shape during the embroidery. The fabric is a mid [...] I have now uploaded all the relevant pages so that you can pre-order your copy of The Right-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion: a step-by-step stitch dictionary. At a glance: The Right-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion: a step-by-step stitch dictionary by Yvette Stanton 160 pages Paperback 195 x 275 mm / 7 5/8 x 10 7/8 in 170+ embroidery stitches [...] Today I have a sneak preview of the likely new cover of “The Right-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion”. It is designed to complement the cover of The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion. I had so much fun doing the embroidery for this cover. You can see that I have used the Colourstreams hand-dyed felt (in “Monet” colour) that arrived [...] It has been a busy but enjoyable week. The books arrived as promised on Tuesday, and all pre-orders were posted by Wednesday morning. It has also gone off to the Australian distributors, so it should appear in the shops some time soon. The US shipment will arrive at the distributors some time next week, and [...] The The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion will be arriving here today! I am eagerly and anxiously awaiting the delivery of oodles of boxes of books. Its going to be about 35 degrees Celcius here today, so I am really hoping that they come early in the day before it gets too hot. I have a busy [...] Yesterday I took delivery of my new gift cards, featuring images of embroidery from my new book The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion. They are gorgeously bright and colourful – like the book really! The images are details of (L-R) breton stitch, double feather stitch, square and double chain stitch, and spiral trellis stitch. They are available [...] Another new product today: The Mighty Bright booklight. But we don’t use it as only a booklight – it makes a fabulous portable light for doing embroidery by! I’ve used one of these, and found it to be absolutely wonderful. At the Beating Around the Bush mini market day, these little lights just walked out [...] |
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