{"id":2034,"date":"2010-09-13T06:43:14","date_gmt":"2010-09-12T20:43:14","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=2034"},"modified":"2010-09-12T21:00:40","modified_gmt":"2010-09-12T11:00:40","slug":"yesterday-and-today","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2010\/09\/13\/yesterday-and-today\/","title":{"rendered":"Yesterday and today"},"content":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I did some more work on the Christmas ornament that I am making for The Gift of Stitching<\/a>‘s Christmas ornament issue. I have used some of Stitches and Spice’s gorgeous single ply silk<\/a> with counted thread embroidery. When I first saw this silk at the craft show in June, I fell in love with its amazing sheen. And working with it is also lovely.<\/p>\n

The silk is so smooth and so lustrous. When we were in Portugal a few years back, I learnt of a type of Portuguese embroidery that uses straw sewn onto net, to create patterns. The straw looks like little bits of gleaming gold – an amazing effect when you consider what the fibre is that is being used! When I was working with the “Golden Wattle” silk, I couldn’t help but be reminded of the straw embroidery. It just seems to have a similar sort sheen, in a similar colour.<\/p>\n

Yesterday’s part was the construction of the ornament, using a richly patterned red and gold patchwork fabric, along with the embroidered panel. Then lots of lovely gold and red beads.<\/p>\n

Sorry that I can’t show it to you – yes, I know, that’s a bit of a tease, isn’t it? You’ll just have to wait until the magazine comes out!<\/p>\n

Today’s job will hopefully be boiling my Mountmellick stitch along embroidery, to whiten the fabric, assuming I find the time. If it does get done, tomorrow I’ll explain why I boiled it.<\/p>\n

Tonight I’ll be off to the opening of the “Stitch+Stitch=Magic” exhibition, probably meeting a whole lot of people whose names I know, but have never met before. But then, they might find the same thing about me. (And usually the response, whether voiced or not, is that they are surprised that I am so young! I quite enjoy surprising people in that way!) I’m very much looking forward to the exhibition, seeing all the beautiful embroideries, and being very much inspired!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Yesterday I did some more work on the Christmas ornament that I am making for The Gift of Stitching‘s Christmas ornament issue. I have used some of Stitches and Spice’s gorgeous single ply silk with counted thread embroidery. When I first saw this silk at the craft show in June, I fell in love with […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,11,14,22,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2034","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-designing","category-embroidery-musings","category-favourite-needlework-items","category-making-stuff","category-mountmellick-embroidery","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034","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=2034"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2038,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2034\/revisions\/2038"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2034"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2034"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2034"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}