{"id":4917,"date":"2012-06-14T06:28:09","date_gmt":"2012-06-13T20:28:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=4917"},"modified":"2012-06-13T19:35:21","modified_gmt":"2012-06-13T09:35:21","slug":"craft-show-day-1","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2012\/06\/14\/craft-show-day-1\/","title":{"rendered":"Craft show day 1"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I had a wonderful day at the Sydney Craft and Quilt Fair yesterday. Thankfully the stand light that was missing from the stand had been put up in the intervening time since I finished setting up.<\/p>\n<p>The traffic was pretty good all day, and lots of people came to visit me. I had some lovely needleworky conversations. Many people took &#8220;Portuguese Whitework&#8221; home in their bags with them, and many more oohed and aahed at the display of the Portuguese whitework on the wall.<\/p>\n<p>One of the things I love about shows is the people who tell me how much they appreciate my books. One lady called &#8220;The Left-Handed Embroiderer&#8217;s Companion&#8221; &#8220;The Left-Handed Survival Guide&#8221;! Hearing people&#8217;s gratitude for my books makes it feel very worthwhile. And I do enjoy surprising people who haven&#8217;t seen me or my books before, when they realise that *I* wrote the six books displayed in front of them!<\/p>\n<p>Thanks to the lovely ladies who read this blog who introduced themselves to me yesterday. It was great to put names with faces!<\/p>\n<p>I had fun, and will be back again for more fun today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I had a wonderful day at the Sydney Craft and Quilt Fair yesterday. Thankfully the stand light that was missing from the stand had been put up in the intervening time since I finished setting up.<\/p>\n<p>The traffic was pretty good all day, and lots of people came to visit me. I had some lovely [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[42,48,28],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-4917","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-exhibitions","category-portuguese-whitework-bullion-embroidery-from-guimaraes","category-the-left-handed-embroiderers-companion","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917","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=4917"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4920,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/4917\/revisions\/4920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4917"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=4917"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=4917"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}