{"id":9242,"date":"2018-02-27T07:07:07","date_gmt":"2018-02-26T20:07:07","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=9242"},"modified":"2018-02-26T11:24:49","modified_gmt":"2018-02-26T00:24:49","slug":"trip-report-paris-and-mystery-destination","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2018\/02\/27\/trip-report-paris-and-mystery-destination\/","title":{"rendered":"Trip report – Paris and mystery destination"},"content":{"rendered":"

I recently went to Paris to visit l’Aiguille en F\u00eate, which is a big, annual craft show, not unlike the Sydney Craft and Quilt Fair that I exhibit at each year. I arranged for my sister Prue<\/a>, who lives in Germany, to join me for my few days in Paris. She’s an embroidery designer too, so it was fun to visit the fair with her, and do some textiley things in Paris.<\/p>\n

We spent a day at the fete, with Anne Nicolas-Whitney<\/a>, a French embroidery designer and teacher. It was lovely to have her as our guide and companion. She also had one of her students, Ren\u00e9e, join us.<\/p>\n

As well as the booths for the needlework shops and businesses, there was a large exhibition of whitework. It included lace, crochet, weaving, boutis and other forms of embroidery, such as kantha. It was an excellent display, and one of the reasons I really wanted to be there at this year’s fair. Anne introduced me to a number of very talented embroiderers.<\/p>\n

Being inside at the fete meant that we missed a heavy snowfall outside. In the days preceding our arrival into Paris, there had been very heavy snowfalls, so much so that roads and train lines were cut. Fortunately this did not hamper our plans! However, it did mean that for this Australian (who rarely experiences snow) it was a little big magical (and cold)!\n\t\t