Earlier this year I heard from Crystal in Colorado. She was stitching the Claire Doily from my book Elegant Hardanger Embroidery, and had a few questions. I answered her questions (I’m always happy to provide after sales service, so if you have questions, please just ask!) and requested that she send me a photograph when […]
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Yesterday I received a message from my US distributor with a link to a Facebook group. In that group a member, Arlene, had posted a photo of the Portuguese Whitework sampler from my book Portuguese Whitework: Bullion Embroidery from Guimarães. Arlene has done a magnificent job, and I was pleased to congratulate her on her […] Yesterday I received a photo from Ruth, who was one of the students in my classes on the needlework cruise that I taught on in February this year. Ruth took my Mountmellick class and my Portuguese Whitework Panel class. From the photo (which Ruth has given permission for me to share), you can see […] On Tuesday and Wednesday Singleton Embroiderers Guild group welcomed me back to teach Portuguese Whitework. A couple of years ago I did a Mountmellick workshop with them, which they greatly enjoyed. It was lovely to see several of the completed projects which they proudly brought along to show me! Our Portuguese Whitework class got off […] A long, long time ago, way back in 2000, I entered a hardanger I had designed and stitched in the Nordic Needle Hardanger Design Contest. At the time, I was working as a book designer for an international publishing company. I sent off a photo of my embroidery and was delighted when it was selected […] Last night I came back from a lovely weekend away, teaching the Mornington Peninsula group of the Victorian embroiderers guild and a group of embroiderers at the headquarters of the Victorian guild. Both groups did Portuguese Whitework classes, but different projects. The classes went very well, with some excellent quality stitching in evidence. They were […] Once upon a time I taught a class in merezhka at Springwood, here in NSW. We did a small panel of merezhka as an introduction to the style. There were many lovely ladies in that class, but there was one student who *really* took to merezhka. Big Time. Sharron absolutely loved the embroidery style […] Yesterday I received a sad and heartfelt email from an embroiderer. I could feel her pain as I read her email: I just completed a small embroidery and the red thread bled. Oh dear. I was looking on the net for advice and came across your blog entry about testing a red thread. My question […] Following on from yesterday, in which Lilian told us about her experiments with withdrawing threads after prewashing her fabric, today we look at the effect of pulling bars tight and rippled hems. In yesterday’s post, Lilian posed the question: “Now I am worried that when the fabric does not shrink after embroidering it, will the […] Some weeks ago I did a series on 38 count linen and whether it was evenweave or not. At the time, Lilian from the Netherlands had been corresponding with me about this issue. After my post on prewashing, Lilian posed the question: “Is it true that after you’ve washed the linen, it’s hard to take […] |
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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