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Just wanted to dash in here to let you know that I have sent “The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion” off to the printers. Yay!! Now I am doing final preparations for Beating Around the Bush next week. Then after I come back from BATB, I can finally take a breath! For those who will be at […] Sorry about the lack of posts from me. I have been extremely busy trying to get the book (The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion) ready for the printer. Hopefully it will go off in the next few weeks… Despite the fact that I am really enjoying it, it just want it FINISHED!! I also have to make […] In response to yesterday’s question about bullion stitches and how other people hold their needle and thread, Mary Corbet of NeedleNThread, included this as part of her response: It’s funny – when I first learned how to do bullions (and almost any embroidery stitch, for that matter), I always went by the book. But once […] Such a question can really only be asked by a right hander… I was talking with some people yesterday, about writing my left-handed embroidery book. One of them, who is right-handed, said “Well, its all just common sense really.” I just stopped and stared at her, and said, “That is SUCH a right-handed thing to […] Over the past few years my teaching engagements have been steadily increasing. It has been wonderful to go to various shops and guild groups around the country to share my embroidery skills with them. Its been a lot of fun, and I’ve met some wonderful people. Due to continued illness I have decided (well, been […] Yesterday I received my program/class list booklet for Country Bumpkin’s Beating around the Bush Needlework Convention. I’ll be teaching Mountmellick, Merezhka and Hardanger embroidery at it. Reading through the brochure, I can’t wait to go! I’ve never been to an embroidery convention before. I think it will be so wonderful to spend a week with […] One of the reasons I love teaching Mountmellick embroidery is because it is so much fun showing students how they can play with stitches. Often we learn the basic stitches but don’t learn variations. Its the variations that I find so much fun. When we go through feather stitch in my classes, it gets rather […] Many people find it difficult to produce evenly spaced, regular, feather stitch. I have had the privilege of teaching feather stitch to many people in my classes, and I always love it when they say, “I never could do this before. This is wonderful – now I can!” Last night I decided to try something […] I have been mulling over the question of whether needlework should be taught in schools for some time now. I am certainly extremely grateful that I did needlework at school. It was where I first learnt Hardanger embroidery, which was the start of my whole embroidery publishing career. I know that many schools do not […] When right handed teachers teach left handed people embroidery, it is common that they get the lefties to sit in front of them so that they can see it in “mirror” to what the right handed people do. Many lefties say that works ok for them. I’ve really only ever learnt from books and by […] |
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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