{"id":2104,"date":"2010-09-23T06:44:03","date_gmt":"2010-09-22T20:44:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=2104"},"modified":"2010-09-23T06:44:03","modified_gmt":"2010-09-22T20:44:03","slug":"couldnt-wait-to-show-you-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2010\/09\/23\/couldnt-wait-to-show-you-all\/","title":{"rendered":"Couldn&#8217;t wait to show you all"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/portuguese-embroidery0264.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/portuguese-embroidery0264.jpg\" alt=\"Portuguese whitework embroidery class project\" title=\"portuguese-embroidery0264\" width=\"250\" height=\"249\" class=\"alignright size-full wp-image-2105\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/portuguese-embroidery0264.jpg 250w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/09\/portuguese-embroidery0264-150x149.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 250px) 100vw, 250px\" \/><\/a>Here is the completed embroidery that I have been working on over the last few days. I know that I said that I wasn&#8217;t going to show you yet, but I couldn&#8217;t wait!<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it gorgeous? (Not commenting on my stitching here, rather the actual style!) It is Portuguese whitework embroidery.<\/p>\n<p>When I first saw my first photo of this style of embroidery, I was gobsmacked. It was like nothing I had ever seen before, and so stunningly beautiful. I said right there and then, &#8220;I have to learn more about that embroidery!&#8221; And so I did.<\/p>\n<p>To Terry, who wondered yesterday why I was doing the drawn thread work first (great question!) because to her that would destabilise the fabric, you can now see why I had to do it first. It forms the framework for the rest of the embroidery, not unlike Casalguidi, as Carol so helpfully pointed out in yesterday&#8217;s comments.<\/p>\n<p>This is just a very small sample of this style of embroidery. For those of you who want to see more, I am now LETTING THE CAT OUT OF THE BAG: this is what my next book is going to be on. \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here is the completed embroidery that I have been working on over the last few days. I know that I said that I wasn&#8217;t going to show you yet, but I couldn&#8217;t wait!<\/p>\n<p>Isn&#8217;t it gorgeous? (Not commenting on my stitching here, rather the actual style!) It is Portuguese whitework embroidery.<\/p>\n<p>When I first saw [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[37,41,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2104","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-introducing","category-portuguese-embroidery","category-whitework","category-writing-books","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104","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=2104"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2107,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2104\/revisions\/2107"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2104"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2104"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2104"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}