A friend commented the other day that she would find it very difficult to actually *use* embroidered items like my tablecloth or handtowel, because she’d be too worried that they would be damaged. Let’s clear up a possible misconception here: I don’t use most of them either! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
If you walked into my house and looked around, apart from the piles of fabric and partially completed projects in my office, you would have no idea that I design and make embroidery for a living. Most of my embroidery lives in a cupboard! Because I used to work as a picture framer, our walls are full, so there’s no display room there. <\/p>\n
Several years ago we purchased a new lounge suite, having spent many years living with (ugly!) hand-me-down lounges. It was the first time I felt that the lounges were worthy of displaying any of my embroidery. We now have a selection of my embroidered cushions on the lounge.<\/p>\n
I do use smaller things like scissors cases and needlebooks all the time. I also display ornaments on the tree at Christmas time. I wear embroidered clothing quite happily, though I don’t have much that is embroidered. The rest of my embroidery just lives in the cupboard, waiting to be brought out for classes or craft show displays.<\/p>\n
I don’t feel bad about this, because for me a lot of the pleasure is in the making of the item. Some may see it as wasteful – spending all that time and money on something that ends up in a cupboard – but I don’t. You could spend $20 on a movie ticket and enjoy a few hours of entertainment. For me, $20 spent on embroidery supplies would be likely to supply me with many more hours of happy stitching, so I don’t see it as a poor investment.<\/p>\n
Do you actually USE many of your embroidered projects? Or do you consider them such a labour of love that they are therefore way too special to be used?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
A friend commented the other day that she would find it very difficult to actually *use* embroidered items like my tablecloth or handtowel, because she’d be too worried that they would be damaged. Let’s clear up a possible misconception here: I don’t use most of them either! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n
If you walked into my house and […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4076","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-musings","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076","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=4076"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4082,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4076\/revisions\/4082"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4076"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4076"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4076"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}