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I had a wonderful day at the Sydney Craft and Quilt Fair yesterday. Thankfully the stand light that was missing from the stand had been put up in the intervening time since I finished setting up. The traffic was pretty good all day, and lots of people came to visit me. I had some lovely […] Occasionally I have comments from people wanting to know more about the embroidery examples in my books, The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion and The Right-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion. People seem to want to know the story behind them. For those of you who are familiar with my historical whitework books, seeing my stitch dictionaries for the […] Yesterday I went to a really interesting training day about getting the most out of exhibiting at consumer shows. It was run by Expertise Events, who run the Sydney Craft and Quilt Fair that I’ll be exhibiting at in just less than two weeks (Stand L42 – come and visit me and purchase your own […] Yesterday I introduced the idea of a smartphone app based on my two books The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion and The Right-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion. I also put it on my personal Facebook page (to which anyone can subscribe to my public updates), and my Vetty Creations Facebook page. Because of this, I’ve had feedback streaming in […] One afternoon a couple of months ago, I was sitting in traffic in the car, listening to the radio. For some reason I suddenly had a flash of brilliance: why not make my stitch dictionaries into apps for smartphones? I don’t even know that they were talking about apps on the radio. I don’t think […] In the comments sections of Mary Corbet’s last two posts, one a review of my Portuguese Whitework book, and the other about left-handed Schwalm embroidery, there have been lots of lovely things said about my books. For years I had a hard time embroidering and set it aside because it was confusing & frustrating to […] Yesterday I met some a couple who work in prisons on a Pacific island, helping to rehabilitate the male and female prisoners (different prisons) so that they can go back to their communities on release, and start afresh. Their work is having great results, which is an encouraging thing to hear. I learned that the […] Yesterday the review we’ve all been waiting for went up on Needle’nThread: Mary Corbet’s review of “The Right-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion”! Thank you Mary, for such a lovely review! Both The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion and The Right-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion would make excellent Christmas presents to yourself, that friend who enjoys embroidery, or that young person who […] When I am teaching French knots, it in variably comes up – either by me or a student – that some people maintain that French knots should only ever have one wrap. The idea is that if you need a bigger knot, you use a thicker thread. I don’t subscribe to this point of view, […] I arrived home from Hobart late on Friday night, very pleased to be home with my family again. On Saturday we had a day together as a family, and it was so very nice to be with them. Yesterday I made a dress for my elder daughter for her end of school year farewell. I […] |
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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