{"id":498,"date":"2010-03-16T07:52:32","date_gmt":"2010-03-16T04:52:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=498"},"modified":"2010-03-11T11:37:11","modified_gmt":"2010-03-11T08:37:11","slug":"favourite-needlework-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2010\/03\/16\/favourite-needlework-books\/","title":{"rendered":"Favourite needlework books"},"content":{"rendered":"

Over the last few days I have reviewed some of the books on my bookshelf. These were some that I used during the writing of my stitch dictionary The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion: a step-by-step stitch dictionary<\/a>. There were of course, others, and we may get to them in the future.<\/p>\n

Coming to spend three months here in Africa, I had to decide, at the beginning, what books I would bring with me. In the end I brought just one: my left-handed book! I knew that it had in it all the stitches that I was likely to need, and as it happens, I’ve been using it as a prop at my very first ever author’s talks at my daughters’ school this week! (I think it is hilarious that they want me to do author’s talks, but as you can imagine, its not every day they have access to authors here!)<\/p>\n

Anyway, it made me think about which needlework books I would place on the pile if I was going somewhere where I could only take five.<\/p>\n

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  1. The Left-Handed Embroiderer’s Companion: a step-by-step stitch dictionary<\/i> by Yvette Stanton (me!). I’d bring this because I put the stitches in there, so I know the wide range of stitches it has in it.<\/li>\n

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  2. Mary Thomas’s Dictionary of Embroidery Stitches<\/i> by Mary Thomas. This is a small book, jam-packed with good stuff. It would have to go in the pile. See my recent review<\/a>.<\/li>\n

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  3. The Stitches of Creative Embroidery<\/i> by Jacqueline Enthoven. This has a great range of stitches too. Not heaps of diagrams, but lots of interesting text. Good inspiration pics too.<\/li>\n

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  4. Three Hundred Years of Embroidery 1600-1900: Treasures from the collection of the Embroiderers’ Guild of Great Britain<\/i> by Pauline Johnstone. I bought this book many years ago at the Art Gallery of South Australia. I have always liked it, and often just go back and have another look. I guess I like it because it is full of historical embroidery.<\/li>\n

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  5. I’m sorry, I’ve sat here and thunked and thunked, but I can’t come up with a fifth book, when I am thousands of miles away from my actual book collection…<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    So, what are your five most favourite needlework books – the ones that would have to go with you if you could take only five? And WHY those particular books?<\/p>\n

    If five is too hard (as it was for me), then fewer is ok. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n

    If you come up with some suggestions that I’m not familiar with, I’ll have great delight in looking them up!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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    Coming to spend three months […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,14],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-498","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-favourite-needlework-items","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=498"}],"version-history":[{"count":10,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":509,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/498\/revisions\/509"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=498"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=498"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=498"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}