{"id":3311,"date":"2011-05-03T09:06:40","date_gmt":"2011-05-02T23:06:40","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=3311"},"modified":"2011-05-03T09:06:40","modified_gmt":"2011-05-02T23:06:40","slug":"ready-for-classes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2011\/05\/03\/ready-for-classes\/","title":{"rendered":"Getting ready for classes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not wanting to make my blog into a ranting political statement, but here&#8217;s my thought for the day:<br \/>\n&#8220;I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already devoid of stars. Darkness cannot drive out darkness: only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate: only love can do that.&#8221; Martin Luther King, Jr.<\/p>\n<p>Now, onto embroidery things. I&#8217;ve been getting ready for my classes in Maitland next week, over the past few days. I&#8217;ll be teaching two classes: a two day Mountmellick class, and a two hour exploring embroidery stitches class.<\/p>\n<p>I&#8217;ve been putting together the embroidery stitches class kits, and having a lovely time selecting fabrics and threads. I&#8217;ll be supplying a piece of fabric, and thread, teaching five lesser known stitches that people often don&#8217;t think to use, and then letting them loose to do what they want with it all.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s what I did with my stitches, thread and fabric. Can you identify the five stitches? (Hint: they&#8217;re all in my stitch dictionaries!)<a href=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/unusual-stitches.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/unusual-stitches.jpg\" alt=\"unusual stitches sampler\" title=\"unusual-stitches\" width=\"300\" height=\"297\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-3312\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/unusual-stitches.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/05\/unusual-stitches-150x148.jpg 150w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m not wanting to make my blog into a ranting political statement, but here&#8217;s my thought for the day: &#8220;I mourn the loss of thousands of precious lives, but I will not rejoice in the death of one, not even an enemy. Returning hate for hate multiplies hate, adding deeper darkness to a night already [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[38,16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-classes","category-embroidery-stitches","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311","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=3311"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3316,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3311\/revisions\/3316"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}