Today’s episode of White Threads Floss Tube (number 36 – I can’t believe I’ve done that many already!) has wide ranging topics. They include how to choose the right needle size for your thread; a reader sample of plaited braid stitch successfully made using only my instructions; two plaited braid stitch projects both of which […]
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In 2008, as I was recovering from serious illness, I worked an Elizabethan project with lots of plaited braid stitch on it. I learnt so much about the stitch from doing this, and was able to write comprehensive step-by-step instructions for my stitch dictionaries because of it. In this episode of White Threads FlossTube, I […] Today’s White Threads FlossTube video has an explanation of thread twist, and how it relates to the teaching of left-handed students when right-handed teachers say “sit opposite me and mirror what I do”. Even if you’re not a teacher of embroidery (and maybe you are more than you realise), there is lots of interesting stuff […] Today’s video is an old one that I’ve not previously shared with you. It takes you through the process of creating an embroidery with many different stitches, on felt. I created the video about five years ago as something for people to watch at my stand at the Sydney Craft and Quilt Fair. When the […] Some people go on a book tour when they release a new book. I’ve never done this, but I thought I could instead take you on a tour of some of my books. I know that some of you have been along for the ride since the beginning but some of you are newer to […] 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: […] 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 […] 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 […] |
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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