{"id":11391,"date":"2024-07-29T07:35:28","date_gmt":"2024-07-28T21:35:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=11391"},"modified":"2024-07-29T07:35:28","modified_gmt":"2024-07-28T21:35:28","slug":"are-you-friends-with-finishing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2024\/07\/29\/are-you-friends-with-finishing\/","title":{"rendered":"Are you friends with finishing?"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_11392\" style=\"width: 610px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.vettycreations.com.au\/organza-hardanger.html\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-11392\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/organza-Hardanger-ornament-YStanton.jpg\" alt=\"Organza Hardanger Ornament\" width=\"600\" height=\"600\" class=\"size-full wp-image-11392\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/organza-Hardanger-ornament-YStanton.jpg 600w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/organza-Hardanger-ornament-YStanton-150x150.jpg 150w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/organza-Hardanger-ornament-YStanton-300x300.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2024\/07\/organza-Hardanger-ornament-YStanton-400x400.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-11392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Organza Hardanger Ornament<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Following on from my question the other day about projects in my books that you like to make, I&#8217;m interested to know about finishing. Most people indicated that the things they like to make are small things like needlecases, bookmarks, scissor fobs, biscornus and Christmas decorations (all of which I have featured in my books in the past).<\/p>\n<p>Small things like this can often be fiddly to finish. From my wanderings on social media, it seems to me that there are a lot of people who are scared of finishing items and hand them over to a professional finisher for them to do them. Others are confident in doing them themselves.<\/p>\n<p>How confident are you in finishing items when good instructions are provided?<br \/>\n1. I&#8217;ll give anything a go.<br \/>\n2. I&#8217;ll only finish items that are simple, so that I don&#8217;t mess things up.<br \/>\n3. I am not at all confident and while I enjoy making them, they end up in a drawer, unfinished.<br \/>\n4. I give them to someone else to finish for me.<\/p>\n<p>In addition, does the need to finish a small, fiddly item put you off making it?<\/p>\n<p>Finishing is something I enjoy doing, and I always do it carefully, so as to get the best results. After all that time embroidering, I&#8217;m keen to make the embroidery look great, by finishing the item well. However, as I know some people don&#8217;t feel confident doing it themselves, or don&#8217;t have the money to get someone else to do it for them, that&#8217;s why I often include projects in my books like runners that can be easily finished with simple turned hems, either with hand sewing or a machine.<\/p>\n<p>Are you friends with finishing?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p id=\"caption-attachment-11392\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">Organza Hardanger Ornament<\/p>\n<p>Following on from my question the other day about projects in my books that you like to make, I&#8217;m interested to know about finishing. Most people indicated that the things they like to make are small things like needlecases, bookmarks, scissor fobs, biscornus and Christmas decorations (all of which I [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,6,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-11391","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-musings","category-hardanger","category-making-stuff","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11391","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=11391"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11391\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":11394,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11391\/revisions\/11394"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11391"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11391"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11391"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}