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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 […] 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 […] 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 […] 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 […] 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 […] 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. https://youtu.be/bVze_qQXu-4 If you are reading this in […] 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 […] 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 […] 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! Please share this video […] In today’s episode of White Threads FlossTube, following the suggestion that people would like to know more about what’s on my bookshelves (they were my background in the previous episode), I review Bunad Magazine from Norway. It’s a visually delicious magazine about folk and regional costume in Norway, in Norwegian language only, but that’s never […] |
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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