Progress report on my next book

I thought you might like to hear about the progress on the next book, despite the fact that you still don’t know what it is about! If you’ve been reading carefully, you may have gathered by now that it is an historical, counted, whitework embroidery from Europe. Nothing you wouldn’t expect from me. 🙂

I’ve been chipping away, getting bits done. I have many partially completed projects for the book. Only one is actually complete! All the rest still need their finishing done. I don’t particularly feel like doing that at the moment, so I’ll wait until the moment strikes me! There are others that I have designed but not stitched, and others still that haven’t even been conceived yet.

I’ve set myself the goal of having all the stitch instructions and their diagrams finished by the end of November. I don’t know if that’s possible, but it’s good to have a goal to work towards.

I’ve sourced the right threads to use for the projects. Being an historical embroidery, there’s not really much point in doing it with the wrong threads. If you do, you won’t get the feel for how it is meant to be, and you won’t get the right look either. Fortunately, there appear to be sources for the correct threads across the world, so that’s a really encouraging start. I have a shipment on their way to me at the moment, so of course Vetty Creations will also sell them.

The plan is to have the book available mid 2015, but as always, because I self-publish, there are no set deadlines, and I will fit it into my life and around the life of my family as is possible.