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A couple of weeks after Tina showed me (and all of us) her progress on the Frisian Whitework Silk Sampler, she has now completed it and it is magnificent! Here’s what Tina had to say about it: I am sitting here looking at this finished piece and I am more than thrilled with how […] “I wanted to share my progress! This is about five days of progress. Tina” Last year, Tina signed up for my “Frisian Whitework silk sampler self-paced video online course”. She has started work on the project and is doing so well! Her stitching is absolutely beautiful. Well done, Tina! If you’d like to do this […] Ruth Klein has sent me photos of her beautifully stitched Hardanger Filling Stitches sampler. I so love seeing what people have done with my design. Often they are personalised with colour or other variations to the original design, which I delight in seeing. Thanks for sharing this with us, Ruth, and congratulations on such […] I’m delighted to have had another photo of a finished filling stitch sampler sent to me, this time by Billy Portch of NZ. Stitched in pearl cotton on richly coloured 32 count linen, it’s simply gorgeous! Billy had this to say of it, “I usually hate doing samplers but enjoyed doing this one and […] This morning I received a very exciting email from Catherine Rozendaal of NZ. She’s finished her sampler from Hardanger Filling Stitches and had this to say: “Stitched with DMC 3823 on a pale yellow Cashel linen. Love love loved stitching this, and learning lots along the way. Amazing that there are so many different filling […] I recently had an email from a reader who was struggling with a stitch for one of the projects in one of my books. She sent a very clear photo so that I could see her work and assess where she might be going wrong. I was able to advise her on ways she could […] Today on Episode 96 of White Threads FlossTube I show you how a stitcher and I managed to troubleshoot her stitching difficulty from afar. Lilian is in the Netherlands and I’m here in Australia. She’s currently working on the Whitework Sampler project from “Frisian Whitework: Dutch Embroidery from Friesland”. With careful photographs from Lilian I […] In this video, I let you know of a vacancy that has opened up in my in-person Frisian Whitework workshop here in Walcha in late November. Following on from the last video, I show some photos that readers and viewers have sent to me of their adapted versions of my designs. I also take you […] In this video I celebrate the embroideries that PVK sent me photos of: her differently coloured versions of the needlecase and scissor fob from my book “Smøyg: Pattern Darning from Norway”. I invite you to share with me any of my projects that you have made in your own colour scheme. If you are […] You may remember that in January this year I spent two and a bit weeks in New Zealand, teaching punt’e nù, or Sardinian Knotted Embroidery. Each of the six classes did the Petite Doily from my book Sardinian Knotted Embroidery. The students made great progress, but I always tell my students that I love seeing […] |
White Threads is the blog of Yvette Stanton, the author, designer, publisher behind Vetty Creations' quality needlework books and embroidery products.
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