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I’ve just added a whole pile more book reviews of my books to the book reviews page on my website. There are many, many new reviews there, and if you’re looking for a new embroidery book, read my book reviews page first! A few samples of the reviews for you: The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion: […] Apparently today is International Left-Handers Day. I have no idea who decrees these things, but this being the home of left-handed embroidery, why not celebrate it?! As you probably know, I am left-handed (to misquote from “The Princess Bride”!). I wrote The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion because I realised how much left-handed embroidery students loved having […] Well, here we are in 2013 now. 🙂 Hopefully this year will see the production of the phone app versions of my two stitch dictionaries. (That makes it sound like it is someone else’s responsibility, but let me assure you it is very much my responsibility. It’s just slow going…!) And then I very much […] Over the past two days I have been getting stuck into working on the stitch dictionary app. In that time I have gotten 11 stitches done. Yep, just 11. It takes a long and boring time to do these. Considering there are about 170 stitches in the book, you can see that this is still […] Recently the amazing Sue Spargo, quilt maker and teacher extraordinaire visited Australia for a teaching tour. Sue teaches beautiful quilt designs often highly embellished with hand embroidery. You can see some of her gorgeous work at the blog of Addicted to Fabric, which was one of the shops she visited while she was here. I […] Oops! It passed me by that yesterday was International Left-Handers Day, but I take comfort in the fact that while it is well and truly Tuesday here now, it is still Monday in some parts of the world! However, as the writer of a left-handed embroidery book, I feel I do need to acknowledge the […] Some pretty pictures today, taken from The Left and Right-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion stitch dictionaries. If you click on the image, it should take you to a larger version of it. For the story behind these images, you can read a previous blog post. Shown, (L-R, top to bottom) we have Diamond Stitch, Square and […] Sorry for the lack of exciting posts. I’ve been buried in stitch diagrams, resaving them one after another for use in my stitch dictionary app. Occasionally I’ll get a batch that go through quickly, but usually it is a slow, laborious, uninteresting process. I’ve also been packing cartons of books to be shipped to the […] Yesterday I finally managed to get back to preparing files for the app. Truthfully, I had been putting it off, because resaving files into the correct format for an app is complete drudge work! The process was taking too long, so I knew that I needed to streamline it. I had been mulling over for […] Yesterday morning I installed the first test build of my stitch dictionary app on my phone. It wasn’t entirely a success, but its a start! I can see that in time, with a lot more work from both me and the developer, it will be excellent. This is a new process for me, creating an […] |
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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