{"id":11090,"date":"2024-01-15T06:00:29","date_gmt":"2024-01-14T19:00:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=11090"},"modified":"2024-01-13T10:53:12","modified_gmt":"2024-01-12T23:53:12","slug":"how-hardanger-filling-stitches-came-to-be","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2024\/01\/15\/how-hardanger-filling-stitches-came-to-be\/","title":{"rendered":"How the book “Hardanger Filling Stitches” came to be"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"Hardanger<\/a>
\nIn October 2022, I was tagged in a FB Hardanger group comment by a woman named Donna. She was wishing for a compendium of Hardanger filling stitches (she later told me she’d wanted such a book for 40 years). She tagged me, because she felt that I should write that book.<\/p>\n

I thought about this for a very short while, and realised she was absolutely right! And so, I set about writing the perfect book for her, and for everyone else who was interested.<\/p>\n

The book kept getting bigger and bigger, and I was happy to keep expanding it until my UK co-publishers said “You must stop at 280 pages!” It was a struggle, but I did.<\/p>\n

In less than a year I had completed it (all written, illustrated, stitched, photographed, laid out, etc by me). I still don’t know how, as books much smaller usually take me about two years to create!<\/p>\n

The Australian and NZ shipment arrived from the printer just days before Christmas and I had the mammoth task of sending out all the pre-orders I had received, while not at all well. Thankfully, I had the help of many, but especially my parents and husband.<\/p>\n

Late last week, Donna’s book finally arrived in her letterbox. I had been tracking her parcel, from Australia, all the way to the US. It was so lovely to see a message from her the following morning.<\/p>\n

“The book arrived safely in yesterday’s mail. I’m afraid I made inarticulate sounds of joy repeatedly after opening the package and reading your message. My husband was instructed to hold onto the book until my packing (for a stitching retreat) is complete, which it will be this morning just before I drive a few hours… Then, in the company of almost 200 like-minded women, I’ll have days to dip into your book. Oh! I should pack a doodle cloth to try some filling stitches over the long weekend! Thank you forever for this book. I can hardly wait to get started.”<\/p>\n

My heart is full. The audience of one who I wrote the book for is happy, so I am happy too.<\/p>\n

Order your copy from me<\/a> (available now) or your favourite needlework store. It is currently available in Australia, soon in NZ, late February in Europe, and March in the US. https:\/\/www.vettycreations.com.au\/hardanger-filling-stitches.html<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

In October 2022, I was tagged in a FB Hardanger group comment by a woman named Donna. She was wishing for a compendium of Hardanger filling stitches (she later told me she’d wanted such a book for 40 years). She tagged me, because she felt that I should write that book.<\/p>\n

I thought about […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[71,21,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11090","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-hardanger-filling-stitches-white-threads","category-public-thanks","category-whitework","category-writing-books","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11090","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=11090"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11090\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11108,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11090\/revisions\/11108"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11090"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11090"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11090"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}