{"id":2234,"date":"2010-10-20T06:42:58","date_gmt":"2010-10-19T19:42:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=2234"},"modified":"2010-10-19T06:26:53","modified_gmt":"2010-10-18T19:26:53","slug":"disappearing-lines","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2010\/10\/20\/disappearing-lines\/","title":{"rendered":"disappearing lines"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;ve mentioned once or twice on here and on the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.facebook.com\/vettycreations\">Vetty Creations Facebook page<\/a> that I&#8217;ve been working on stitching some butterflies for a magazine project. Its been a delightfully restful project that has been something that I have picked up from time to time when I&#8217;ve a spare minute.<\/p>\n<p>The other day I devoted the day to stitching on it. I hadn&#8217;t had the chance to work on it for more than a week, and when I pulled it out of the bag I&#8217;d had it in, I was not pleased to find that the lines of the butterfly patterns that I had drawn on the fabric had faded away to a mere nothing&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Oh dear.<\/p>\n<p>I was using a washout marker because the project is a curtain that is more a fashion item than anything else, so wouldn&#8217;t need to be around for longevity. But because the curtain is 100% polyester, the marker never soaked into the fibres, and obviously there has been enough rain over the last week for the moisture in the air to make the lines disappear.<\/p>\n<p>So take this as a warning: if your ground fabric is basically plastic and doesn&#8217;t actually soak up anything, it won&#8217;t soak up a washout fabric marker either.<\/p>\n<p>Lesson learned.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I think I&#8217;ve mentioned once or twice on here and on the Vetty Creations Facebook page that I&#8217;ve been working on stitching some butterflies for a magazine project. Its been a delightfully restful project that has been something that I have picked up from time to time when I&#8217;ve a spare minute.<\/p>\n<p>The other day [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2234","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-musings","category-hints-and-tips","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234","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=2234"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2240,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2234\/revisions\/2240"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2234"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2234"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2234"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}