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Yesterday afternoon my daughter and I drove to the Post Office (yes, drove! – that’s a new one for me!) and I posted off the printouts and files of “Portuguese Whitework” to my printers in Hong Kong. Just quietly, it doesn’t feel as marvellous as I might have expected, to have it finished, possibly because […] I nearly forgot to write my blog post this morning – I just got straight onto working on the book! On Saturday I finally finished what I call my “first draft”. For anyone else writing a book, this would mean that the author had finished getting all the words out of their head and onto […] I’ve been working hard filling pages of the book. Currently there are only two pages that are yet to have anything put on them. One is a chapter opener that I need to take a photo for, and one is a fairly simple step-by-step instruction page. Once they’re done, the first draft will be complete. […] This morning I have received the files for some historical photos I’ve requested to use in Portuguese Whitework. They’re downloading at the moment, as I write. Its a little bit exciting as these are going to add a wonderful sense of history to the book! I have been very fortunate throughout the process of putting […] Welcome to 2012! And a particular welcome if you’re joining us here for the first time after visiting Mary Corbet’s Needle’nThread! Why not subscribe to White Threads while you’re here? 'Portuguese Whitework: Bullion Embroidery from Guimarães' by Yvette Stanton, due for release in early 2012. 2011 has been a year of hard slog for […] My Christmas present to you: a sneak peak of another project from my upcoming book Portuguese Whitework! I’d like to take this opportunity to wish you all a very happy Christmas! At Christmas time I celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, my saviour. I am grateful to God for all his blessings to […] I’ve been working on the cover a bit over the last few days. A cover is really important to a book. If a book has a boring or uninteresting cover, people in a shop are less likely to pick it up. If the information on the back doesn’t pique people’s interest, then they’re more likely […] Yesterday I did some more photography for the book. I had not been completely happy with the photo I had of my sampler. It looked a little washed out and I just wasn’t happy with it. My mum let me have some of her Christmas bush to photograph around the sampler. Christmas bush is […] I’ve been making slow progress here. I knew that Christmas preparations and end of school year things would interrupt my work, but I just have to keep going! The project instructions are nearly all written up – first draft only, and there are still quite a number of technique step-by-step pages to work on. While […] Yesterday I spent the day wrestling with the charts for the projects in “Portuguese Whitework”. I was adding all the tacking information, and arranging and re-arranging them on the pattern sheets. Today I think I’ll get them printed out full size which will give me a good idea of how its all working, and will […] |
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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