A number of Personal Firewalls, such as Norton Personal Firewall, block adverts by looking for pictures within a web page that match one or more of the "standard" advert sizes used by online advertisers. If a match is found, the firewall will block viewing of the picture. If you have such a Personal Firewall installed on your computer and are having problems viewing some of the pictures in this site, please disable "advert (ad) blocking" or add this site (www.velvetstitch.co.uk) to the list of sites that the software should allow adverts from. The pictures on this site are sized to best display each piece of work. It is therefore possible that a picture size will match one of the several "standard" sizes used by advertisers and will be blocked from viewing. Since advertisers continually change "standard" sizes to defeat firewall blocking, it is not practical to avoid all "standard" sizes in this website.
