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I spent a bit of time on Friday and Saturday working on a video preview of “Portuguese Whitework”. It’s been quite fun. I have no idea about video – my brain designs better in two dimensions – even though I did some really basic stuff at uni when I did my design degree. At the [...] Yesterday afternoon my daughter and I drove to the Post Office (yes, drove! – that’s a new one for me!) and I posted off the printouts and files of “Portuguese Whitework” to my printers in Hong Kong. Just quietly, it doesn’t feel as marvellous as I might have expected, to have it finished, possibly because [...] I spent about 10 hours yesterday reading through the printouts of the book again. And finding lots more little things to fix… At the beginning of the day I was thinking to myself “Oh, I’ll let that one go. It’ll be ok” but then I thought to myself “No! This is my chance to [...] I am hoping to send off my files for Portuguese Whitework to the printer today. That will depend on how I go with reading through and checking the entire book. I’ve made all the changes that my husband found the other day and had it printed out again. Hopefully I will find very little this [...] I nearly forgot to write my blog post this morning – I just got straight onto working on the book! On Saturday I finally finished what I call my “first draft”. For anyone else writing a book, this would mean that the author had finished getting all the words out of their head and onto [...] I’ve been working hard filling pages of the book. Currently there are only two pages that are yet to have anything put on them. One is a chapter opener that I need to take a photo for, and one is a fairly simple step-by-step instruction page. Once they’re done, the first draft will be complete. [...] This morning I have received the files for some historical photos I’ve requested to use in Portuguese Whitework. They’re downloading at the moment, as I write. Its a little bit exciting as these are going to add a wonderful sense of history to the book! I have been very fortunate throughout the process of putting [...] Welcome to 2012! And a particular welcome if you’re joining us here for the first time after visiting Mary Corbet’s Needle’nThread! Why not subscribe to White Threads while you’re here?
'Portuguese Whitework: Bullion Embroidery from Guimarães' by Yvette Stanton, due for release in early 2012. 2011 has been a year of hard slog for me. [...] I’ve been working on the cover a bit over the last few days. A cover is really important to a book. If a book has a boring or uninteresting cover, people in a shop are less likely to pick it up. If the information on the back doesn’t pique people’s interest, then they’re more likely [...] Yesterday I did some more photography for the book. I had not been completely happy with the photo I had of my sampler. It looked a little washed out and I just wasn’t happy with it. My mum let me have some of her Christmas bush to photograph around the sampler. Christmas bush is [...] |
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