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A little bit of visual inspiration for the end of the week: the sampler from Hardanger Filling Stitches. I’ve noticed recently that many orders come in over the weekend. It seems you all have the chance to sit down and do a bit of dreaming about what you’re going to make or work on […] If you’re in the UK, there’s a profile of me in the latest edition of Stitch magazine. And there’s an extract of the sampler from Hardanger Filling Stitches. I hope you enjoy it! 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 […] The other day I received a lovely email from Elena K in Finland. Six months ago I didn’t know about the existence of hardanger, but now it’s my favorite hobby. These are my works. I have been studying from your book for six months. Thank you! Wow, Elena! Your work is beautiful! I […] This week, after an exceptionally LOONNNGGGG wait, I have finally received new stock of the Premax ringlock scissors which are my choice of scissors now that we can no longer get Dovo Hardanger scissors. I find cutting with these scissors like cutting butter. They feel LOVELY in hand. I used these scissors while working […] This morning, Laura, a Norwegian member of a Hardanger group that I’m in, posted these images of and from the latest issue of Norsk Husflid magazine. Lovely to be featured in a magazine in Norway! So often, I send images and words off to magazines and never see the resulting article or review because […] This style of embroidery is called Punt’e Nù, and is from Sardinia, off the coast of Italy. It is a really unusual style of embroidery, in that it is made from hundreds (thousands?) of tiny knots worked on the surface of the embroidery. That makes it really textural and really quite unique. Shown is […] Diana asked me: “[For Hardanger] when you pull the threads, do you do it on a ring, or frame, or flat surface, or just in hand? I was taught that it should be done on frame (or at the least a ring) and bit by bit, not all of them, filling section by section […] Nearly 30 years ago I did a degree in Design (Visual Communication). It was absolutely formative in bringing me to where I am today. Probably because of some feedback from one of my uni assignments, I came to believe that I wasn’t very good at pushing my designs. I think I understood that I […] One of the things I have always loved about Mountmellick embroidery is the playing with stitches. When you don’t have colour (it’s whitework embroidery), pattern and texture can be obtained from stitches. Why work plain old buttonhole stitch, when you can work wavy top buttonhole stitch?! This lily is from the Shamrock and […] |
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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