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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

Portuguese Whitework back in stock

Portuguese Whitework by whitework expert, Yvette Stanton, is back in stock!

Discover this beautiful form of embroidery from the historic town of Guimarães in Portugal. With its drawn thread work, eyelets and a profusion of bullion stitches, it has sumptuous texture and pattern.

If you’re scared of bullion stitches, this is the way to […]

May 30th, 2024 | Category: Ethnic embroidery, historical embroidery, Portuguese embroidery, Portuguese Whitework: Bullion Embroidery from Guimarães, whitework | 2 comments

All the stitches in Hardanger Filling Stitches

Today I am sharing a graphic showing all the stitches in my forthcoming book, Hardanger Filling Stitches.

How many have you never seen before? Which ones are you looking forward to learning? Which ones are you looking forward to mastering, having already tried them before?

Please share this post far and wide so that all […]

August 31st, 2023 | Category: embroidery stitches, Ethnic embroidery, hardanger, Hardanger Filling Stitches, whitework, writing books | Leave a comment

Hardanger mythbusting – yet again

You may know that Hardanger mythbusting is one of my favourite subjects. There are many myths about Hardanger, and I like to promote accurate information, thereby busting as many of those myths as I can.

Some Hardanger myths include the following: Hardanger must be done on 22 count fabric, because that fabric is called “Hardanger […]

February 16th, 2023 | Category: embroidery musings, embroidery stitches, Ethnic embroidery, hardanger, historical embroidery | 4 comments

Frisian Whitework available to pre-order

I’ve been telling you that I’ve been working to update my website before I put Frisian Whitework: Dutch Embroidery from Friesland up for pre-ordering. Well, today I realised it was taking too long, and I’ve just put it up on the existing website! I’m still working on the new website, but now I can take […]

March 6th, 2021 | Category: Ethnic embroidery, Frisian whitework, historical embroidery, new products, whitework, writing books | 2 comments

White Threads Floss Tube #57 – Smøyg scissor keep

Today I show you one of the smallest projects from my book “Smøyg: Pattern Darning from Norway” – the scissor keep. This is a great first project, to learn the basic techniques and try out something new. You also end up with a really pretty but practical scissor keep in which you can store needles […]

November 13th, 2020 | Category: embroidery stitches, Ethnic embroidery, FlossTube, pattern darning, Smøyg, Smøyg: Pattern Darning from Norway | Leave a comment

White Threads FlossTube #50 – A needlework gift

In this episode of White Threads FlossTube, I show you a special embroidered gift, and the story behind how it came to be given to me. It’s a piece of Chinese embroidery, and I explain one of the reasons why I love looking at embroidery from other cultures.

If you are reading this in […]

August 10th, 2020 | Category: embroidery musings, Ethnic embroidery, FlossTube, Frisian whitework, public thanks, travel | Leave a comment

White Threads FlossTube #41 – Ethiopian crosses and embroidery

In this episode of White Threads FlossTube, Yvette takes us to Ethiopia. Yvette and her family spent some time living in the beautiful country of Ethiopia about ten years ago. She shows examples of Ethiopian embroidery, and Ethiopian crosses on which the embroidery motifs are based.

If you’re reading this in an email, the […]

July 10th, 2020 | Category: embroidery stitches, Ethnic embroidery, FlossTube, travel | Leave a comment

White Threads FlossTube #34 – Sardinian dress ups

In today’s video I share some very precious holiday memories with you. While we were in Sardinia, for me to research my book, “Sardinian Knotted Embroidery”, we were fortunate to spend some time with some lovely Sardinian ladies who showed us some traditional costumes from Desulo, in Sardinia. I have heaps of photos of gorgeous […]

June 19th, 2020 | Category: embroidery musings, Ethnic embroidery, FlossTube, travel | Leave a comment

White Threads FlossTube #30 – Yvette Stanton’s 2020 book announcement

In this episode of White Threads FlossTube Yvette finally announces the subject and title of her 2020 book. She shows you the cover and a few of the projects that will be in the book. She would love to hear from you if you correctly guessed the subject of the book!

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June 12th, 2020 | Category: Ethnic embroidery, FlossTube, Frisian whitework, historical embroidery, Introducing..., whitework, writing books | Leave a comment
 
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