{"id":3056,"date":"2011-03-05T07:06:24","date_gmt":"2011-03-04T20:06:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=3056"},"modified":"2011-03-05T07:06:24","modified_gmt":"2011-03-04T20:06:24","slug":"book-reviews-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2011\/03\/05\/book-reviews-2\/","title":{"rendered":"book reviews"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/stitch-dictionary-covers.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/stitch-dictionary-covers.jpg\" alt=\"The Left-Handed Embroiderer&#039;s Companion &amp; The Right-Handed Embroiderer&#039;s Companion by Yvette Stanton\" title=\"stitch-dictionary-covers\" width=\"200\" height=\"160\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3060\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/stitch-dictionary-covers.jpg 200w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/03\/stitch-dictionary-covers-150x120.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 200px) 100vw, 200px\" \/><\/a>Recently I found some lovely reviews of my stitch dictionaries at <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amybunger.com\/home.html\" target=\"_blank\">Amy&#8217;s Golden Strand<\/a>, the website of Amy Bunger.<\/p>\n<p>About <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vettycreations.com.au\/left-handed-book.html\">The Left-Handed Embroiderer&#8217;s Companion<\/a>, Judy Rogers and Jill Wilensky commented: <\/p>\n<blockquote><p>As a left-hander, learning how to do some of the more complex stitches is not as simple as just &#8220;flipping&#8221; the diagrams and substituting right for left. Well, this book provides clearly defined steps for a great number of stitches with very detailed diagramming.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>Read the rest of their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amybunger.com\/catalog\/item\/6268582\/8196211.htm\" target=\"_blank\">review<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Amy herself reviewed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vettycreations.com.au\/stitch-dictionary.html\">The Right Handed Embroiderer&#8217;s Companion<\/a>:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>I have spent a few morning coffee breaks with this book in my lap and am enthralled. There is something about a new book that thrills me to my toes. As I flip through these beautifully diagrammed pages my ideas run rampant. <\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>You can read the rest of her review on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amybunger.com\/catalog\/item\/6268582\/8196219.htm\" target=\"_blank\">Amy&#8217;s website<\/a>. Amy&#8217;s Golden Strand is in Memphis TN, and you can purchase the books from Amy using the links I have provided to the reviews.<\/p>\n<p>I also had a call this week from a lady who had borrowed <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vettycreations.com.au\/stitch-dictionary.html\">The Right Handed Embroiderer&#8217;s Companion<\/a> from her local library. She loved it so much that she was calling to purchase her own copy. Trying before you buy, through your local or guild library is a great way to learn how very useful a book can be!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Recently I found some lovely reviews of my stitch dictionaries at Amy&#8217;s Golden Strand, the website of Amy Bunger.<\/p>\n<p>About The Left-Handed Embroiderer&#8217;s Companion, Judy Rogers and Jill Wilensky commented: <\/p>\n<p>As a left-hander, learning how to do some of the more complex stitches is not as simple as just &#8220;flipping&#8221; the diagrams and substituting [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,28,36],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3056","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-the-left-handed-embroiderers-companion","category-the-right-handed-embroiderers-companion","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056","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=3056"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3064,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3056\/revisions\/3064"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3056"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3056"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3056"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}