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On Sunday I received a lovely review of my latest book, Sardinian Knotted Embroidery, from Julie in Melbourne. “I received your latest book for my birthday! Instead of just drooling over the pictures as I have done with the Portuguese one, I decided to MAKE A START!! Well, doing the edging first before the embroidery […] Into Craft blog featured a profile of me and my new book “Sardinian Knotted Embroidery” last week. You can read it here. At the time of writing this, there was also a very lovely comment at the bottom of the article, from a happy customer. (I’m not expecting that her comment will disappear, rather that […] It’s been a very quiet week with The Gymnast at home with winter sickness. I’ve been writing lots of stitch instructions and doing their accompanying diagrams, so there are more pages in the next book looking more full now. However, I’ve been a few days without stitching, so it is time to do some more. […] Sometimes a little bit of knowledge is a dangerous thing. Last night and this morning I’ve been poring over the many photos I took on my trip to Mystery Country earlier this year. I’ve been trying to figure out the counting of some stitches. I knew a little about some of these stitches already from […] Back in July at the Sydney Craft and Quilt Fair my book “Sardinian Knotted Embroidery: Whitework from Teulada” was awarded Craft Book of the Year in the 2014 Australian Craft Industry Awards. Yesterday I finally obtained a copy of the photograph that was taken of me receiving my award, and permission to share it! […] My poor wren is languishing, not quite forgotten. 🙁 However, I’ve been busily stitching and writing for the next book this week. Oh, I love what I do! How pleasurable to wake up in the morning, answer a few emails, get on with writing stitch instructions and drawing their diagrams, and then stitch. Of course, […] This weekend I’ll be off to Mittagong for the 2014 Quilting in the Highlands retreat organised by Berrima Patchwork. Mittagong is in the Southern Highlands, south of Sydney. Given that it is winter in Australia at the moment, it’s a bit cold, and in winter it is always colder in the Southern Highlands. We don’t […] Yesterday I decided it was time to try out a scary new stitch on the embroidery that I’ve been working on. It’s a stitch that’s been on my radar for quite some time, but I’d been too scared to try it. It involved cutting threads and then working very close to unfinished ends. That scared […] In November last year, I shared with you Crystal’s beautiful version of my design “Claire Doily” from Elegant Hardanger Embroidery. Crystal wrote to me again this week, with news about her doily. She entered it in the folk art competition at the Sons of Norway District Convention in California. It was one of about 20-25 […] On Friday the fabric I had been waiting for so that I could start a new embroidery arrived (it had been out of stock for a few weeks). On Sunday I was finally able to find the time to do something with it. I printed out my pattern that I designed some weeks ago, 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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