{"id":2384,"date":"2010-11-12T06:32:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-11T19:32:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=2384"},"modified":"2010-11-11T13:49:50","modified_gmt":"2010-11-11T02:49:50","slug":"me-time","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2010\/11\/12\/me-time\/","title":{"rendered":"me time"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I decided that despite having a few projects that are just a little bit pressing, yesterday I needed ME time. I needed to feel like I was making progress on MY projects for my book on Portuguese whitework.<\/p>\n<p>And so after racing off in the morning to the toy sale at a local department store to get a couple of kiddie gifts, I spent the day wrestling with bullions. For all those who hate bullion stitch, I guess that doesn&#8217;t sound like all that much fun. But I enjoyed it.<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/whitework-bullions-closeup.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/whitework-bullions-closeup.jpg\" alt=\"whitework bullions close up\" title=\"whitework-bullions-closeup\" width=\"300\" height=\"300\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-2385\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/whitework-bullions-closeup.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/11\/whitework-bullions-closeup-150x150.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>If you&#8217;re one of the people waiting on me to do something for you &#8211; illustrations or an embroidery project etc &#8211; I apologise. But you&#8217;ll get a much better result out of me if I am feeling happy and relaxed, rather than frustrated and put upon!<\/p>\n<p>If you are a person who hates or is intimidated by bullion knots, do check out my bullion stitch tutorials:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2010\/03\/02\/tips-for-working-better-bullion-stitch\/\">Tips for working better bullion stitch<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2010\/03\/03\/bullion-stitch-thread-twist-and-wrapping-direction\/\">Bullion stitch: thread twist and wrapping direction<\/a><\/li>\n<li><a href=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2010\/03\/04\/bullion-stitch-to-hoop-or-not-to-hoop\/\">Bullion stitch: to hoop or not to hoop<\/a><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I decided that despite having a few projects that are just a little bit pressing, yesterday I needed ME time. I needed to feel like I was making progress on MY projects for my book on Portuguese whitework.<\/p>\n<p>And so after racing off in the morning to the toy sale at a local department store [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16,41,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2384","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-musings","category-embroidery-stitches","category-portuguese-embroidery","category-whitework","category-writing-books","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384","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=2384"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2388,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2384\/revisions\/2388"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2384"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2384"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2384"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}