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The anatomy of a page from Hardanger Filling Stitches

To help you understand all the value you’ll be getting from “Hardanger Filling Stitches”, here we show you all the important features on a spread from the book.

Left-handed stitch instruction pages are red, right-handed pages are blue. Purple are for both. Step-by-step instructions with a diagram for each step. Colour-codedpage tabsindicating “L” or […]

September 5th, 2023 | Category: hardanger, Hardanger Filling Stitches, new products, whitework, writing books | Leave a comment

Glimpses of the Hardanger Filling Stitch sampler

There is only one project in my forthcoming book, “Hardanger Filling Stitches”. That’s because it is primarily a stitch dictionary. However, I wanted to give you at least one project on which to try out most of the stitches, and so, there is a large sampler.

If you haven’t already, you can pre-order your copy […]

September 4th, 2023 | Category: embroidery stitches, hardanger, Hardanger Filling Stitches, making stuff, whitework, writing books | Leave a comment

Considering my legacy

I have found discussions on my recent topics on social media incredibly interesting. So many of you have been so generous in sharing your thoughts, and I really appreciate that. (If you are unaware, we have very active discussions on my Vetty Creations Facebook and Instagram pages. https://www.facebook.com/vettycreations https://www.instagram.com/vettycreations)

I have learned/ realised several […]

September 2nd, 2023 | Category: writing books | One comment

Flipping what’s in my head

You’ve probably gathered that I’ve been feeling sorry for myself about my World Needlework Convention classes not going ahead.

I wanted to teach at it. I wanted to be part of it. Whilst buried in the all-consuming process of writing my book, I helped promote the event and my classes.

People assumed that my […]

September 1st, 2023 | Category: Embroidery classes, embroidery musings, writing books | Leave a comment

All the stitches in Hardanger Filling Stitches

Today I am sharing a graphic showing all the stitches in my forthcoming book, Hardanger Filling Stitches.

How many have you never seen before? Which ones are you looking forward to learning? Which ones are you looking forward to mastering, having already tried them before?

Please share this post far and wide so that all […]

August 31st, 2023 | Category: embroidery stitches, Ethnic embroidery, hardanger, Hardanger Filling Stitches, whitework, writing books | Leave a comment

Introducing myself, for anyone new here…

In case you’re new here, I thought I would introduce myself. I’m Yvette Stanton. I live in a small country town, about five hours north of Sydney, Australia.

I’m passionate about embroidery, particularly whitework. My twin sister, Prue, and I were always creative, and when I was in high school I really began to […]

August 16th, 2023 | Category: embroidery musings, Introducing..., teaching embroidery, whitework, writing books | Leave a comment

Early-Style Hardanger – back in stock!

I visited my off-site storage for my books yesterday. I saw a carton sitting by itself and wondered what it was. It was next to the Frisian stacks, so I assumed it was one of them. Imagine my surprise to find it was a whole box of “Early-Style Hardanger” which I thought I was completely […]

August 14th, 2023 | Category: Early-Style Hardanger, embroidery musings, hardanger, whitework, writing books | Leave a comment

Important embroidery life events and experiences

What’s the most important thing you’ve done or that has happened to you in terms of your embroidery?

I have one of each.

The most important thing I have ever done in terms of my embroidery was to send out a press release to Australian publishers of craft books, when I won the Nordic Needle […]

August 9th, 2023 | Category: embroidery musings, favourite needlework items, writing books | Leave a comment

Introducing the Hardanger Filling Stitches Sampler

Because my forthcoming book, Hardanger Filling Stitches, is basically an exhaustive stitch dictionary, there is only one project in it. However, as there’s only one, I had to make it a good one!

The Hardanger Filling Stitches sampler is a band sampler featuring as many Hardanger filling stitches as I could fit onto it! […]

June 24th, 2023 | Category: designing, embroidery musings, embroidery stitches, hardanger, Hardanger Filling Stitches, Introducing..., left handed embroidery, new products, whitework, writing books | 2 comments

Addressing shipping charges for “Hardanger Filling Stitches”

My website has 3 shipping categories for my new book: Within Australia, To New Zealand, To Rest of the World. The Australian shipping is quite reasonable. International shipping is much higher.

The book’s weight has been forefront in my mind, as has the useful information in it. I want this to be the most […]

March 5th, 2023 | Category: hardanger, Hardanger Filling Stitches, writing books | 4 comments
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