Last week I received a thoughtful and detailed review of “Sardinian Knotted Embroidery” from Robert.<\/p>\n
Here’s what he had to say:<\/p>\n
The reasons I love your book:<\/p>\n
You bring a new cultural experience to the rest of us. Your sharing of the techniques and patterns helps me appreciate the region and encourages me to learn more about the people.<\/p>\n
I very much like the organization of the book. After some history, you start with the projects first and not with the how-to instructions. This encouraged my participation sooner rather than later. When the instructions are listed first, sometimes I feel like I must practice first. The organization of the book encouraged me to jump right in to the first beginner project.<\/p>\n
With each project, you indicate what needs to be done and the corresponding page number showing how to do it. Can I mention how helpful this is to a beginner!<\/p>\n
Your instructions are very clear as are your photographs. As a visual learner, it has made the learning process easier.<\/p>\n
With half of the first project done, I feel very motivated to continue with other projects or to create my own in the future. <\/p>\n
Thanks Yvette!<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
In my correspondence with Robert following his email, I explained why I have put the projects first in my recent books:<\/p>\n
My earlier books have the instructions first and then the projects later. Somewhere along the line (actually it was quite recent, with the Portuguese book, I think) I decided that I wanted to have the projects first. My thinking was that it was such beautiful embroidery that I wanted to inspire you all with it, and make you fall in love with it before feeling like you were bogged down in the instructions. I also took my cue for this from craft magazines – they often have the project photos all up the front and then all the instructions buried down the back.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n
Thanks so much for sharing your thoughts with me, Robert, and for allowing me to share them with others. I am so glad that you’re enjoying working from the book.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Last week I received a thoughtful and detailed review of “Sardinian Knotted Embroidery” from Robert.<\/p>\n
Here’s what he had to say:<\/p>\n
The reasons I love your book:<\/p>\n
You bring a new cultural experience to the rest of us. Your sharing of the techniques and patterns helps me appreciate the region and encourages me to learn […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[15,55,54,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6848","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-book-reviews","category-punt-e-nu","category-sardinian-knotted-embroidery","category-writing-books","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848","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=6848"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":6852,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6848\/revisions\/6852"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6848"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6848"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6848"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}