I have a question for you today. I have been thinking about my Portuguese Whitework book and how I would like to order the contents. Normally I have introductory stuff including a bit of history, then how to do it all (step-by-step stitch instructions and technique instructions), then projects that can be made.<\/p>\n
I’ve been working on the step-by-step pages over the past few weeks, and while they’re full of valuable information that you’re really going to need to use the book, they look a bit repetitive in terms of the content they are presenting. Its all really important, but unless you need that particular stitch or technique right then and there, its not going to be a particularly thrilling section to thumb through.<\/p>\n
So I have been wondering about putting the projects section *before* the step-by-steps. After all, the projects in this book are what’s going to get people in, because (she says modestly) they’re gorgeous!<\/p>\n
Imagine you’ve picked up the book in your hands in a bookshop. You’ve heard nothing of it before. As you flick through, you see page after page of beautiful needlework that inspires you and make you think “I have to buy this book, because I want to make that, that, that and that.” And then you come to the step-by-step pages with all the stitches and techniques that you’ll need to make them. You can see that section is very thorough, and full of really good information, but you’ve already decided to buy the book on the strength of the projects.<\/p>\n
Does this sound like a likely scenario to you? Would you prefer to see projects first, or step-by-steps first? Thanks in anticipation of your feedback and suggestions!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
I have a question for you today. I have been thinking about my Portuguese Whitework book and how I would like to order the contents. Normally I have introductory stuff including a bit of history, then how to do it all (step-by-step stitch instructions and technique instructions), then projects that can be made.<\/p>\n
I’ve been […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[41,8,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3777","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-portuguese-embroidery","category-whitework","category-writing-books","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777","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=3777"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3781,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3777\/revisions\/3781"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3777"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3777"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3777"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}