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What will Yvette’s next book be about?

At the Sydney Craft and Quilt Fair on the weekend, I revealed the subject of my next historical embroidery book. Note, I did not say “historical whitework book”, and that’s because this time it is not whitework!

My next book will be entitled “Smøyg: Pattern Darning from Norway”, and the embroidery is done in […]

June 27th, 2017 | Category: pattern darning, Smøyg, Smøyg: Pattern Darning from Norway, video previews, White Threads Blog, writing books | 12 comments

A huge thank you!

From around the world I’ve been receiving sales reports, and reports from happy customers. It seems that people love my new book, Early-Style Hardanger!

Thank you to all who have bought it already. I’m thrilled it is doing so well, and so grateful for your support.

If you love the book, please show it […]

July 14th, 2016 | Category: book reviews, Early-Style Hardanger, hardanger, public thanks, video previews, White Threads Blog, writing books | Leave a comment

Book trailer: Early-Style Hardanger

It’s finally here: the book trailer for Early-Style Hardanger.

For those reading this in an email, the video can be found here.

Please share the video with all your stitchy friends!

June 17th, 2016 | Category: Early-Style Hardanger, hardanger, Introducing..., travel, video previews, White Threads Blog, whitework | 4 comments

Sardinian Knotted Embroidery now available for pre-order

It’s what you’ve all been waiting for: “Sardinian Knotted Embroidery: Whitework from Teulada” is now available for pre-publication ordering. This means that if you order now, when our shipment arrives in July, we’ll send your copy to you as soon as it arrives! If the shipment arrives earlier, we’ll send your copy earlier!

What […]

April 17th, 2014 | Category: historical embroidery, Introducing..., new products, Sardinian Knotted Embroidery, video previews, whitework, writing books | Leave a comment

Portuguese Whitework video

Because of all the effort that I put into creating my video preview of “Portuguese Whitework”, I’m going to wave it under your noses yet again and embed it here today. I hope you’ll indulge me!

Please share the video with your friends – its a great way to introduce the delights of Portuguese […]

March 5th, 2012 | Category: Introducing..., online book previews, Portuguese embroidery, Portuguese Whitework: Bullion Embroidery from Guimarães, video previews, whitework | 6 comments
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