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another left-handed embroidery book review

I found yet another review the other day, for my book The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion. JennyFlowerBlue is another right-handed embroiderer who wishes she was left-handed!

I wish I was left-handed, no really I do. This book; ‘The left handed embroiderer’s companion’ by Yvette Stanton is a BRILLIANT stitch dictionary. The illustrations are crystal […]

April 26th, 2010 | Category: book reviews, left handed embroidery, The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion, The Right-Handed Embroiderer's Companion | One comment

surprise in the post

No, it wasn’t the Colourstreams felt. I’ve been expecting that so that wouldn’t be a surprise.

I received a copy of “Creative Embroidery and Cross Stitch” in the mail. As I don’t subscribe to any magazines, receiving a magazine in the mail usually means that I have something in it. However, I couldn’t recall submitting […]

April 15th, 2010 | Category: The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion, writing books | 2 comments

Left-handed book online preview

I’ve found a way of creating online previews of my books so that you can see a sample of the contents of my books. I have started with The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion.

It has a sample of pages: there are the front and back covers, the contents page, one surface stitch, a variation of […]

April 7th, 2010 | Category: left handed embroidery, online book previews, published projects, The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion | One comment

right-handed stitch dictionary?

In the interests of finding out whether people want fire that can be nasally inserted (thanks Douglas Adams), I’m wanting to do a little market research.

The idea of converting my already popular left-handed stitch dictionary into a right-handed version has been kicking around my head for a very long time. Probably right from the […]

April 2nd, 2010 | Category: left handed embroidery, teaching embroidery, The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion, writing books | 7 comments

left-handed envy?

I’ve never heard of left-handed envy, but it seems it now exists. Karen Platt, who does a great job of reviewing a lot of different embroidery books, had this to say about my left-handed book, The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion:

This is the first time in my life I have wanted to be left-handed. Unfortunately, I’m […]

April 2nd, 2010 | Category: book reviews, left handed embroidery, The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion | 5 comments

more left-handed book reviews

Today I have been going through the gazillion emails that my colleague received on my behalf while I was away in Ethiopia. There were only about 400 unread emails and probably three times that many that had already been read by her, but not yet by me…

In the midst of that though, I found […]

March 30th, 2010 | Category: book reviews, left handed embroidery, The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion, writing books | 5 comments

left-handed book reader reviews

Recently I received the following comment from RM of England about my book The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion:

Hello Yvette, Just thought I’d let you know I found your LH Companion at the London Bead Company and bought it. Its wonderful and just looking at the instructions I could follow them straight away. Unless you […]

March 10th, 2010 | Category: book reviews, left handed embroidery, The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion | 2 comments

The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion at Nordic Needle

I was thrilled to find that my new book The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion: a step-by-step stitch dictionary was included in this week’s Nordic Needle newsletter.

I’ve had a bit of a soft spot for Nordic Needle, ever since I won their annual Hardanger design contest back in 2000. That win was what set me off […]

February 8th, 2010 | Category: The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion | Leave a comment

Book reviews

I love receiving emails from people who say nice things about my books. Who wouldn’t?! They usually make my day!

I have a favour to ask. If you love my books – any of them: Elegant Hardanger Embroidery; Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature; Ukrainian Drawn Thread Embroidery: Merezhka Poltavska; or The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion: a […]

January 27th, 2010 | Category: book reviews, Elegant Hardanger Embroidery, hardanger, left handed embroidery, merezhka, mountmellick embroidery, Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature, The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion, Ukrainian Drawn Thread Embroidery | Leave a comment

Mary Corbet’s review of left-handed embroidery book

Just in case you haven’t seen it already, Mary Corbet of Needle’nThread has written a wonderful review of The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion. And after reading that, you can purchase your copy from the Vetty Creations website. 🙂

December 23rd, 2009 | Category: book reviews, The Left-Handed Embroiderer's Companion | Leave a comment
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