{"id":11187,"date":"2024-02-19T09:00:33","date_gmt":"2024-02-18T22:00:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=11187"},"modified":"2024-02-19T09:00:33","modified_gmt":"2024-02-18T22:00:33","slug":"sampler-suitable-for-complete-beginner","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2024\/02\/19\/sampler-suitable-for-complete-beginner\/","title":{"rendered":"Is the HFS sampler suitable for a complete beginner?"},"content":{"rendered":"

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On the whole, I would say, no. It’s a very large project with some very complicated stitches.<\/p>\n

However, that’s not a definitive no, because I don’t know you. I don’t know how determined you are! If you know your way around a needle, thread and counted embroidery in general – maybe you’ve done cross stitch but never tried Hardanger – then you are not a complete embroidery novice.<\/p>\n

There are some simple stitches, but there are also some incredibly tricky ones. It’s a large project, and even for me – working long days on it with a high level of competence and experience – it took a long time.<\/p>\n

I wouldn’t want you to come away from attempting such a large project feeling like you’ve failed. If you’re a beginner, please consider if you have the enthusiasm, perseverance and determination to get through to the end, even when things might be going badly along the way. Do you have a group of needleworking friends who can be your cheer squad?<\/p>\n

However, you might be the sort of person who if you attempt a large project and do not finish it, you don’t see that as a failure, because instead you choose to focus on and celebrate all the things you DID learn along the way!<\/p>\n

Me, as a beginner, I probably would have tackled something like this, though maybe it would have even been beyond me (admittedly my first Hardanger was HUGE). I probably would have thought, “I could do that!” even though I had never tried anything like it before. I have a can-do attitude to most things!<\/p>\n

As a beginner, the other thing you could consider is working just one of the bands. The band with the five diamonds near the top might be a good one to start with, because it will teach you satin stitch klosters, eyelets, cable stitch, cutting threads, woven bars, wrapped bars, Greek quarter crosses, and a few specialty stitches (and more, but my list doesn’t have to be exhaustive!).<\/p>\n

If you are still unsure, you are welcome to ask questions. But really, if you’re a complete beginner, YOU are the only person who can assess if you should consider attempting the Hardanger Filling Stitches<\/a> sampler!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n

On the whole, I would say, no. It’s a very large project with some very complicated stitches.<\/p>\n

However, that’s not a definitive no, because I don’t know you. I don’t know how determined you are! If you know your way around a needle, thread and counted embroidery in general – maybe you’ve done cross […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16,71,23,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-musings","category-embroidery-stitches","category-hardanger-filling-stitches-white-threads","category-hints-and-tips","category-whitework","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11187","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=11187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11190,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11187\/revisions\/11190"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}