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White Threads has a new home!

I’m trying something new. I’ve decided to put this blog into recess and continue afresh on Substack. You can find the new White Threads blog at https://yvettestanton.substack.com/

Please join me there. When you subscribe at Substack, you will receive my posts in your email inbox. How good is that?!

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March 11th, 2025 | Category: Introducing... | 2 comments

Portuguese whitework tablecloth

One of my most favourite needlework images that I’ve ever taken.

This is the tablecloth from my book, “Portuguese Whitework”. I took this photo in my sister’s backyard, on her outdoor table. I’m still surprised that this image came from that day’s photographing. It’s far more dramatic than I ever would have expected!

Portuguese […]

March 6th, 2025 | Category: Portuguese embroidery, Portuguese Whitework: Bullion Embroidery from Guimarães, whitework | 2 comments

Tina’s finished silk sampler

A couple of weeks after Tina showed me (and all of us) her progress on the Frisian Whitework Silk Sampler, she has now completed it and it is magnificent!

Here’s what Tina had to say about it:

I am sitting here looking at this finished piece and I am more than thrilled with how […]

March 3rd, 2025 | Category: customer embroidery, Embroidery classes, Frisian whitework, how-to videos, teaching embroidery | 2 comments

FiberTalk chat with me, no 4

I recently had a chat with Gary and Beth at Fiber Talk. It was a chat that had been held over a long time because of my illness, so it was great to finally talk with them again! We talked about my most recent book, about online classes and about Hardanger in general.

Have […]

March 3rd, 2025 | Category: embroidery musings, FlossTube | Leave a comment

Tina’s silk sampler progress

“I wanted to share my progress! This is about five days of progress. Tina”

Last year, Tina signed up for my “Frisian Whitework silk sampler self-paced video online course”. She has started work on the project and is doing so well! Her stitching is absolutely beautiful. Well done, Tina!

If you’d like to do this […]

February 20th, 2025 | Category: customer embroidery, Embroidery classes, Ethnic embroidery, Frisian whitework, teaching embroidery, whitework | One comment

Another Hardanger Filling Stitches finish

Ruth Klein has sent me photos of her beautifully stitched Hardanger Filling Stitches sampler. I so love seeing what people have done with my design. Often they are personalised with colour or other variations to the original design, which I delight in seeing.

Thanks for sharing this with us, Ruth, and congratulations on such […]

February 19th, 2025 | Category: customer embroidery, hardanger, Hardanger Filling Stitches, whitework | 6 comments

Out of office

Out of office – change of plans: Following Christmas, I wasn’t due to be back in office until 6th January. However, the opportunity has come up for me to spend some time in January with my husband.

I’m now already back, but I’ll be out of the office from 7th to 23rd of January […]

January 2nd, 2025 | Category: Uncategorized | 4 comments

Merry Christmas!

I’d like to take this opportunity to thank all my followers, readers and fans for their support this past year. While it hasn’t been the easiest of years, it has been so lovely to see the enthusiasm with which my latest book, “Hardanger Filling Stitches”, has been received.

Thank you all for your encouragement of […]

December 18th, 2024 | Category: embroidery musings, Hardanger Filling Stitches, Portuguese embroidery, Portuguese Whitework: Bullion Embroidery from Guimarães, whitework | 4 comments

Embroidery and AI

Today’s post comes about because of someone else’s blog post on AI and embroidery. The author has said she wants more people to read it, and I am linking to it here as I also want people to read it. https://lolliandgrace.com/blogs/blog/artificial-intelligence-in-the-embroidery-space

The author, Anne Oliver, lists a number of things that you can look for […]

November 21st, 2024 | Category: embroidery musings | One comment

Orders not currently going out

Just wanted to let you all know that I’m really unwell this week. I haven’t been well enough to do any orders. I apologise for this and will do them when I am able. It’s likely that it won’t be until next week.

The picture is completely irrelevant to this, but I wanted to […]

November 20th, 2024 | Category: Uncategorized | One comment
 
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