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One of my husband’s colleagues is currently on holidays in the UK. They visited Stirling Castle and she posted some pictures of the amazing unicorn tapestries on Facebook. She very kindly gave me permission to post the photos here for you all to enjoy. Don’t they look amazing in situ?! If these are […] When I was in Norway last year, I spent some time with Agnete Sivertsen, curator at Hardanger Folkemuseum in Utne. Agnete is very knowledgable and we spent some enjoyable hours talking about Hardanger embroidery and about teaching people how to do it the traditional way. Things like that the needle woven bars should be NARROW, […] After yesterday’s post on Mountmellick embroidery, I was talking about it with my husband. He was trying to remind me of a visit we paid to a lady in Mountmellick who showed us a large embroidered bedspread that she’d borrowed from An Grianan to clean. I remembered the bedspread (probably because I have photos of […] The cruise finished in Singapore, where we were met by family members who live there. It was lovely to spend some time with them, especially as it was all organised in a rush the night before (they thought we were arriving on the Friday!). The main thing I wanted to do in Singapore was go […] When we visited Saigon, the ship was again way out of town, and the bus trip took about 1.5 hours there and back. Our first destination was the Southern Vietnamese Women’s Museum. This museum had a display of 20 different types of regional and traditional clothing, including ao dai, which is a traditional Vietnamese outfit […] Our second stop on the needlework cruise was Bangkok, where we had two days. We docked at a port about two hours away from Bangkok. Apparently the ship is too big to dock in Bangkok itself. For the first day we signed up to take a bus into and out of town. The Husband […] We’re back from the needlework cruise! I say we, because this time The Husband came with me, which was lovely. The Reader and The Gymnast had a holiday at Grandma and Grandpa’s house, which they did enjoy, but they missed us (and we missed them!). From the beginning, this was a different sort of travelling […] On the west coast of Australia, a little way up from the uppermost sticky-outy bit, there’s a small coastal town called Port Hedland. It’s basically an iron ore port, which takes all the iron ore from the Pilbara region to other parts of the world. Everything here is brown. The ore and the dust […] I’m nearly done with all my preparation for my cruise classes. There are piles of stuff on the table, each one for a different class, plus other piles of stock to sell. I’m still undecided about whether to take my laptop with me on the cruise. It would mean that I could work on […] In just over a week I’ll be off on another watery adventure. This time I will be teaching embroidery on a cruise from Fremantle (Perth) to Singapore. We’ll stop off at Port Hedland, Bangkok and Ho Chi Minh. It’s a 15 day cruise, and I’ll be teaching on 6 of the at sea days. The […] |
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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