{"id":51,"date":"2008-06-24T09:43:00","date_gmt":"2008-06-24T09:43:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=51"},"modified":"2017-10-24T16:33:35","modified_gmt":"2017-10-24T05:33:35","slug":"manipulating-fabric","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2008\/06\/24\/manipulating-fabric\/","title":{"rendered":"manipulating fabric"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Had a great time at Oatley Cottage on Saturday. It was nice to be re-united with my passionflower cushion again. It has now been sent off to <a href=\"http:\/\/www.stemstitch.com\" title=\"A Stitch in Time\">A Stitch in Time<\/a> in Tasmania, for my class there in October.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_7t90_05oQVE\/SGDDq5byMjI\/AAAAAAAAAEk\/U2iVItU59Fk\/s1600-h\/manipulating-fabric.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;\" src=\"http:\/\/bp3.blogger.com\/_7t90_05oQVE\/SGDDq5byMjI\/AAAAAAAAAEk\/U2iVItU59Fk\/s400\/manipulating-fabric.jpg\" border=\"0\" alt=\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5215383510234313266\" \/><\/a>While I was at Oatley Cottage I noticed a very enticing book called &#8220;The Art of Manipulating Fabric&#8221; by Colette Wolff. Probably the thing that first appealed to me was the cover, all in white fabric. It seemed rather like whitework embroidery, only in fabric.<\/p>\n<p>It is the most amazing book! It goes through all manner of types of manipulating fabric, including smocking, quilting, using darts, and gathering. I read it on the bus on the way home, and got totally engrossed in the section on gathering. It was just fascinating. I learnt a lot about pattern-making, and the section on using darts was great too. It wasn&#8217;t cheap, but I figured that I recently had a birthday, and had some birthday money that I could happily put towards it.<\/p>\n<p>I brought it home and showed my husband, and he said &#8220;Oh yes, we have two copies of that at school.&#8221; (He&#8217;s a school librarian.) Well&#8230; you could have told me about them! Oh well, now I have my own copy. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Had a great time at Oatley Cottage on Saturday. It was nice to be re-united with my passionflower cushion again. It has now been sent off to A Stitch in Time in Tasmania, for my class there in October.<\/p>\n<p>While I was at Oatley Cottage I noticed a very enticing book called &#8220;The Art of [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[63],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-51","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-white-threads-uncategorized","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51","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=51"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9103,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/51\/revisions\/9103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=51"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=51"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=51"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}