{"id":10689,"date":"2023-08-07T09:06:22","date_gmt":"2023-08-06T23:06:22","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=10689"},"modified":"2023-08-07T09:06:22","modified_gmt":"2023-08-06T23:06:22","slug":"whitework-classes-and-why-people-choose-them-or-not","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2023\/08\/07\/whitework-classes-and-why-people-choose-them-or-not\/","title":{"rendered":"Whitework classes and why people choose them or not"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/first-one-finished.jpg\" alt=\"First one finished - congratulations!\" width=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-8227\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/first-one-finished.jpg 1200w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/first-one-finished-300x269.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/first-one-finished-768x687.jpg 768w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/first-one-finished-1024x916.jpg 1024w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/first-one-finished-150x134.jpg 150w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/05\/first-one-finished-400x358.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 1200px) 100vw, 1200px\" \/><br \/>\nMany years ago, an organiser of a yearly needlework teaching event said to me, \u201cWe can\u2019t sell whitework classes.\u201d Historically, they hadn\u2019t had much success in getting people to choose whitework classes from amongst their class selections. This has always interested me. I\u2019ve always wondered why.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve wondered whether whitework is seen as the purview of guild groups and therefore people are less likely to sign up for a class in it, when they feel they could just learn it from someone in a group they&#8217;re in. I\u2019ve wondered whether the demographic for whitework is such that people who enjoy it don\u2019t go to conferences.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve wondered whether people are scared of whitework, or at least scared of learning it in a class setting, and would prefer to learn it from a book.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve wondered whether people look down a list of classes and get dazzled by all the lovely colour and don\u2019t even notice the projects that are white. <\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve wondered if people get dazzled by the prospect of a teacher from far away and choose them in preference to someone who is available locally to them. (And if this is the case, is this cultural cringe at work?)<\/p>\n<p>Do you choose to take whitework classes? What makes you choose them: the project, the technique, the teacher, or something else? Why would you NOT choose a whitework class at an event; preferring a non-whitework technique?<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m making the assumption that if you\u2019re here, reading a post by me (sometimes known as the Whitework Queen!) that you may have some level of interest in whitework! I&#8217;m really interested in hearing your thoughts!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p> Many years ago, an organiser of a yearly needlework teaching event said to me, \u201cWe can\u2019t sell whitework classes.\u201d Historically, they hadn\u2019t had much success in getting people to choose whitework classes from amongst their class selections. This has always interested me. I\u2019ve always wondered why.<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019ve wondered whether whitework is seen as the [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,11,68,6,7,10,48,55,54,9,13,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10689","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-classes","category-embroidery-musings","category-frisian-whitework","category-hardanger","category-merezhka","category-mountmellick-embroidery","category-portuguese-whitework-bullion-embroidery-from-guimaraes","category-punt-e-nu","category-sardinian-knotted-embroidery","category-teaching-embroidery","category-ukrainian-drawn-thread-embroidery","category-whitework","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10689","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10689"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10689\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10697,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10689\/revisions\/10697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10689"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10689"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10689"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}