{"id":11254,"date":"2024-04-30T07:06:01","date_gmt":"2024-04-29T21:06:01","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=11254"},"modified":"2024-04-30T07:06:01","modified_gmt":"2024-04-29T21:06:01","slug":"mountmellick-embroidery-playing-with-stitches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2024\/04\/30\/mountmellick-embroidery-playing-with-stitches\/","title":{"rendered":"Mountmellick embroidery &#8211; playing with stitches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mountmellick-shamrock-lily-doily.jpg\" alt=\"Mountmellick embroidery with lily\" width=\"500\" height=\"500\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-11255\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mountmellick-shamrock-lily-doily.jpg 645w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mountmellick-shamrock-lily-doily-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mountmellick-shamrock-lily-doily-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/04\/Mountmellick-shamrock-lily-doily-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>One of the things I have always loved about Mountmellick embroidery is the playing with stitches. When you don&#8217;t have colour (it&#8217;s whitework embroidery), pattern and texture can be obtained from stitches. <\/p>\n<p>Why work plain old buttonhole stitch, when you can work wavy top buttonhole stitch?!<\/p>\n<p>This lily is from the Shamrock and Lily Doily in the book, <a Embroidery: Inspired by rel=\"noopener noreferrer\" target=\"_blank\">Mountmellick Embroidery: Inspired by Nature<\/a> by Prue Scott and Yvette Stanton.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<\/p>\n<p>One of the things I have always loved about Mountmellick embroidery is the playing with stitches. When you don&#8217;t have colour (it&#8217;s whitework embroidery), pattern and texture can be obtained from stitches. <\/p>\n<p>Why work plain old buttonhole stitch, when you can work wavy top buttonhole stitch?!<\/p>\n<p>This lily is from the Shamrock and [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,10,5,8],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11254","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-stitches","category-mountmellick-embroidery","category-mountmellick-embroidery-inspired-by-nature","category-whitework","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11254","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=11254"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11254\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11256,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11254\/revisions\/11256"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11254"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11254"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11254"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}