{"id":1914,"date":"2010-09-03T12:21:46","date_gmt":"2010-09-03T02:21:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=1914"},"modified":"2010-09-03T12:21:46","modified_gmt":"2010-09-03T02:21:46","slug":"colourful-gift","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2010\/09\/03\/colourful-gift\/","title":{"rendered":"Colourful gift"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I showed you the <a href=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2010\/09\/02\/gift-for-a-friend\/\">beginnings of a gift<\/a> for a friend. At the time I wasn&#8217;t very happy with it, and suspected that I would end up taking out most of the stitching.<\/p>\n<p>And I did!<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/carinas-brooch.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/carinas-brooch.jpg\" alt=\"carina&#039;s embroidered brooch\" title=\"carinas-brooch\" width=\"250\" height=\"246\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1915\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/carinas-brooch.jpg 250w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/carinas-brooch-150x147.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>This is the new version of the embroidery. I finished the red wiggly chain stitching. I can live with it! I took out the yellow\/green buttonhole and replaced it with long-armed palestrina stitch. I removed the French knots and replaced them with nicer, more evenly spaced French knots. I added some purple silk cross stitches into the spaces around the red wiggles. Finally I worked a round of green silk buttonhole at the outside edge.<\/p>\n<p>I still don&#8217;t know what I&#8217;m going to make it up into. I&#8217;m calling it a brooch, but I am not sure if that&#8217;s what it will end up being, or how. Need to let it mull over further in my mind yet&#8230; Stay tuned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I showed you the beginnings of a gift for a friend. At the time I wasn&#8217;t very happy with it, and suspected that I would end up taking out most of the stitching.<\/p>\n<p>And I did! This is the new version of the embroidery. I finished the red wiggly chain stitching. I can live [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[16,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1914","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-stitches","category-making-stuff","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914","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=1914"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1918,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1914\/revisions\/1918"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1914"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1914"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1914"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}