{"id":2400,"date":"2010-11-16T06:37:44","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T19:37:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=2400"},"modified":"2010-11-16T06:38:43","modified_gmt":"2010-11-15T19:38:43","slug":"problem-solving","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2010\/11\/16\/problem-solving\/","title":{"rendered":"problem solving"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking this morning about the nebulous and strange process that is getting inspiration for embroideries. So how does it happen? Where do my ideas come from?<\/p>\n<p>Usually my inspiration comes through having a problem to solve. It could be as simple as the fact that I need to make an embroidered lampshade for my new niece. Or it could be that I have a class coming up and need a new project to teach. Each year I need a new Christmas decoration design.<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes I see a gorgeous thread and want to find a way to use it. Something about the colours or feel of the thread may just spark a gem of an idea, such as &#8220;Oooh, that would be perfect for Hardanger embroidery.&#8221; Which then means I have a new problem to solve: wanting to design a Hardanger embroidery with that particular thread in mind.<\/p>\n<p>So I guess that mostly its about problem solving &#8211; working within a set framework to come up with the best solution possible. The framework may be an embroidery style, or a length of time in which I need to get the project done.<\/p>\n<p>So let&#8217;s go through my ideas for my niece&#8217;s lampshade.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>I purchased a lampshade from my local shops. It already has a shade on it, but I will remove this an re-cover it with my own embroidered fabric. Shape of lamp decided.<\/li>\n<li>I asked my sister what colours she&#8217;d like me to use and she showed me some other decorations from my niece&#8217;s room that she&#8217;d like to match. Colourscheme solved.<\/li>\n<li>In my mind it was a given that I&#8217;d do it in shadow embroidery, because I find this an effective style of embroidery for lampshades. Embroidery technique decided.<\/li>\n<li>I considered motifs and as I have just recently completed a curtain in shadow work featuring butterflies, I liked the idea of reusing butterflies. Motifs settled upon, though not actually designed yet. I&#8217;ll probably use much simplified butterfly designs than were on the curtain because the curtain was much larger than the lampshade and therefore could be much more detailed.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>Of course, all this is without having even done anything much other than think, so a lot could change during the actual process of making! But these are my starting points.<\/p>\n<p>By the way, I apologise for my lack of post yesterday. I wasn&#8217;t very well, and its very hard to write something interesting and useful while you&#8217;re asleep! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was thinking this morning about the nebulous and strange process that is getting inspiration for embroideries. So how does it happen? Where do my ideas come from?<\/p>\n<p>Usually my inspiration comes through having a problem to solve. It could be as simple as the fact that I need to make an embroidered lampshade for [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27,11,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2400","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-designing","category-embroidery-musings","category-making-stuff","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400","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=2400"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2404,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2400\/revisions\/2404"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2400"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2400"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2400"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}