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I’m spending a lot of time at the moment preparing for Beating Around the Bush. I’ve got kits to organise for my class, and stock to prepare for the Market Day. So if I seem a little absent from here over the next week or two, that is why! Today I’ll be organising for the [...] I’ve entered my Portuguese Whitework tablecloth in the Sydney Royal Easter Show this year. I dropped it off at the showground a couple of Saturdays ago. We were late in the day on the last day of drop offs, so I could see what was there in the way of competition. There didn’t seem to [...] This is my favourite project (and favourite image!) from Portuguese Whitework: Bullion Embroidery from Guimarães. I wanted one really big, really impressive project for the book, and this is it! I started this cloth when I was in Ethiopia back in 2010, so it has special memories attached to it, of our time in [...] The advance copies of Portuguese Whitework: Bullion Embroidery from Guimarães by Yvette Stanton have arrived! The book really and truly exists now! We just have to be patient for the rest of them to arrive at their destinations so that you can have your very own copy! Don’t forget that you can pre-order your [...] Do you have any questions about Portuguese Whitework in general or about my upcoming book, Portuguese Whitework: Bullion Embroidery from Guimarães? Well, this is your chance to ask those questions, and if I know the answer, then I’ll definitely answer it for you. Ask away! [...] A few weeks ago I tantalisingly dropped it into one of my posts that I had been invited to teach on a needlework cruise early next year. I am now allowed to spill the beans on that one! From February 10th next year, I will be teaching Portuguese Whitework and Mountmellick Embroidery on a cruise [...] 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 [...] I spent yesterday almost entirely working on a Mountmellick project for The Cruise (of which I cannot yet tell you any more). It was quite lovely to spend the day doing that. It feels like quite some time since I have done a new Mountmellick project! Its been lovely to be playing with stitch combinations [...] The third class that I will be teaching at Beating Around the Bush is a Mountmellick embroidery class. Mountmellick lily cushion With Yvette Stanton Thursday April 19 and Friday April 20, 2012 Learn to work beautiful traditional whitework embroidery from Mountmellick in Ireland. Mountmellick embroidery is highly textured embroidery featuring many knotted and padded stitches. [...] The second class that I will be teaching at Beating Around the Bush is a Portuguese Whitework Handtowel. Portuguese Whitework Handtowel With Yvette Stanton Monday 16th and Tuesday 17th April 2012 From my upcoming book “Portuguese Whitework: Bullion Embroidery from Guimarães” comes this exquisite whitework handtowel, featuring a style of embroidery from Guimarães in the [...] |
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