{"id":126,"date":"2009-04-17T22:56:00","date_gmt":"2009-04-17T22:56:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=126"},"modified":"2009-04-17T22:56:00","modified_gmt":"2009-04-17T22:56:00","slug":"ukrainian-easter-eggs-pysanky","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2009\/04\/17\/ukrainian-easter-eggs-pysanky\/","title":{"rendered":"Ukrainian Easter Eggs: Pysanky"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Because I do Ukrainian embroidery (merezhka), I sometimes get enquiries from people wanting to learn how to make pysanky, which are painted traditional Ukrainian easter eggs. They are completely and utterly gorgeous, and in another life, I&#8217;d love to learn how to make them too! (In the meantime, I&#8217;ll just enjoy looking at the creations of others.)<\/p>\n<p>I learned of a website today for learning how to make pysanky: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.learnpysanky.com\">http:\/\/www.learnpysanky.com<\/a>. It might be a good place to start.<\/p>\n<p>If you know of any other websites that teach or display this beautiful craft, please leave a comment in the comments section, so that others can see these wonderful websites too.<\/p>\n<p><b>More on decorated eggs<\/b><br \/>Still on the subject of decorative easter eggs, Mary Corbet of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needlenthread.com\/2009\/04\/stuff-it-then-stitch-it.html\">NeedleNThread<\/a> has a wonderful post about making embroidered easter eggs.<\/p>\n<p>Temari would be another way to make decorated eggs &#8211; there&#8217;s a spherical temari project in the upcoming issue of Inspirations magazine (no 62). Obviously spherical is not egg-shaped, but it opens the mind up to all sorts of possibilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Because I do Ukrainian embroidery (merezhka), I sometimes get enquiries from people wanting to learn how to make pysanky, which are painted traditional Ukrainian easter eggs. They are completely and utterly gorgeous, and in another life, I&#8217;d love to learn how to make them too! (In the meantime, I&#8217;ll just enjoy looking at the creations [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[22,7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-126","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-making-stuff","category-merezhka","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126","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=126"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/126\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=126"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=126"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=126"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}