{"id":4145,"date":"2011-11-23T06:35:15","date_gmt":"2011-11-22T19:35:15","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=4145"},"modified":"2011-11-23T06:35:15","modified_gmt":"2011-11-22T19:35:15","slug":"dmc-and-presencia","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2011\/11\/23\/dmc-and-presencia\/","title":{"rendered":"DMC and Presencia"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I got stuck into the last projects for the book &#8211; a set of hanging ornaments. I had some different colours to use, some of which were DMC and some were Presencia threads. Both were pearl 8.<\/p>\n<p>The difference was quite pronounced. DMC is marginally thinner, and much more smooth. Presencia is marginally thicker and much fluffier. Just looking at the balls together, there appears to be little difference, but when you actually try working with them, the differences become apparent.<\/p>\n<p>I much preferred working with the DMC. It gave finer wrapped bars, and I know from previous days that it also gives finer bullions, though I didn&#8217;t work any bullions yesterday.<\/p>\n<p>I am interested in trying some Anchor pearl also to see what the difference is there, but I&#8217;m not sure that I actually know of anyone who stocks Anchor pearl! (I don&#8217;t even know that they make it, or if they do, whether their distributor brings it into Australia, which is probably more to the point!)<\/p>\n<p>I think I&#8217;ll do a bit of ringing around this morning, and see what I can get my hands on. Getting the right colours is going to be particularly interesting!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yesterday I got stuck into the last projects for the book &#8211; a set of hanging ornaments. I had some different colours to use, some of which were DMC and some were Presencia threads. Both were pearl 8.<\/p>\n<p>The difference was quite pronounced. DMC is marginally thinner, and much more smooth. Presencia is marginally thicker [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4145","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-musings","category-making-stuff","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145","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=4145"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4148,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4145\/revisions\/4148"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4145"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4145"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4145"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}