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Vetty Creations office partial closure: I have been unwell since mid November 2023. Orders are going out, though may be delayed when I'm having a really bad day/days. I respond to enquiries when I am able to. I apologise for this. It’s not what I want either.

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We can help you to learn to express your creativity through embroidery, with our step-by-step embroidery books and our embroidery kits. Our clear instructions will help you to learn and master techniques and stitches quickly.
     

Hi, I'm Yvette Stanton. I’m a textile historian who is 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 focus on embroidery. Following school I studied graphic design/visual communication at university, majoring in book design. From there, I brought my two loves together: embroidery and design.

I now write books about embroidery, usually focusing on regional styles of embroidery, and helping to preserve them by teaching others about the historical styles, and how to make them.

I enjoy researching traditional styles of embroidery, and my expertise comes from over twenty years of careful study of historical artefacts in museums around the world, and learning directly from the cultural custodians of the work where that is still possible.

I have written two stitch dictionaries and a growing number of instructional embroidery books on historical styles, particularly whitework, leading some to give me the moniker “Whitework Queen”! Im left-handed, and so all of my more recent books include left-handed instructions.

I enjoy teaching embroidery through my online and in-person classes and my YouTube channel, White Threads FlossTube. I particularly love having left-handed students in my classes, as I am well placed to help them!

As a whitework expert, I am exceptionally proud of the fact that I am self-trained in embroidery, which means that I am not slave to someone else’s “rules” about how embroidery “should” be done. The only rules I am slave to are the ones imposed by the embroidery style itself!

I love embroidery and I love sharing it with others!

 

What's new?

   
Sotema 160 Bisso linen Hardanger Filling Stitches by Yvette Stanton   Hardanger Filling Stitches sampler supplies packs Frisian Whitework silk sampler

NEW! Sotema 160 Bisso linen, 53 count

 

AVAILABLE NOW! Hardanger Filling Stitches by Yvette Stanton

 

Hardanger Filling Stitches Sampler supplies packs

 

IT'S BACK! Frisian Whitework Silk Sampler Supplies Pack


Featured products in the Vetty Creations shop

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Blue-green hardanger panel 3 in embroidery hoop Premax ringlock embroidery scissors Frisian whitework tree of life

Blue-green hardanger panel - now available as a kit

 

3 inch embroidery hoop

 

Premax ringlock embroidery scissors

 

Frisian whitework tree of life kit


The latest White Threads FlossTube video

   
       
   

View this video full size on YouTube.

   

   

Recent and upcoming classes

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Early-style hardanger biscornu class   Frisian Whitework silk sampler   Early-style hardanger panel class   Frisian whitework tree of life

Early-style hardanger biscornu - 2023 World Needlework Convention

 

Frisian whitework silk sampler - 2023 World Needlework Convention

 

Early-style hardanger panel - 2023 World Needlework Convention

 

Frisian whitework tree of life

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