{"id":1909,"date":"2010-09-02T08:12:45","date_gmt":"2010-09-01T22:12:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=1909"},"modified":"2010-09-02T08:12:45","modified_gmt":"2010-09-01T22:12:45","slug":"gift-for-a-friend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2010\/09\/02\/gift-for-a-friend\/","title":{"rendered":"gift for a friend"},"content":{"rendered":"

This weekend we’ll be celebrating a good friend’s 50th birthday. (Carina, if you are reading this, stop now!) I would like to make her a gift because she’s special!<\/p>\n

She likes bright colours. My first thought was “Oh dear, I don’t do bright coloured embroidery.” I was envisioning garish brightly coloured Hardanger! But then I realised, that of course I do brightly coloured embroidery – isn’t that what most of the embroideries in my stitch dictionaries were like?!<\/p>\n

So out came the coloured felt and the threads. I think I’ll either make an embroidered brooch, or a necklace pendant (not sure how that would work, but we’ll see!). I started it yesterday, and am not very happy with it yet.
\n\"carina's<\/a>I’m not very enamoured with the French knots or the yellowy-green buttonhole stitch. The curves of red chain stitch aren’t particularly nice curves, but I think I can probably live with them. Hmmm… maybe not. I’ll probably pull most of it out before I’m done with it!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

This weekend we’ll be celebrating a good friend’s 50th birthday. (Carina, if you are reading this, stop now!) I would like to make her a gift because she’s special!<\/p>\n

She likes bright colours. My first thought was “Oh dear, I don’t do bright coloured embroidery.” I was envisioning garish brightly coloured Hardanger! But then I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,16,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-designing","category-embroidery-stitches","category-making-stuff","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909","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=1909"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1913,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1909\/revisions\/1913"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}