{"id":7260,"date":"2015-03-11T06:58:48","date_gmt":"2015-03-10T19:58:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=7260"},"modified":"2015-05-21T07:28:30","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T21:28:30","slug":"exploring-the-needlework-internet-this-week","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2015\/03\/11\/exploring-the-needlework-internet-this-week\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the needlework internet this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve found a few things on the internet this week that you might be interested in.<\/p>\n<p>The first is an <a href=\"http:\/\/ilmondocreativodifrancesca.blogspot.it\/2015\/03\/punte-nu-secondo-lavoro-finito.html\" title=\"Punt'e N\u00f9\" target=\"_blank\">example of Punt &#8216;e N\u00f9<\/a>, or Sardinian Whitework, by Francesca in Italy. For this, Francesca used my book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vettycreations.com.au\/sardinian-book.html\" title=\"Sardinian Knotted Embroidery by Yvette Stanton\" target=\"_blank\">Sardinian Knotted Embroidery<\/a> and &#8220;Sardinian Knot Stitch&#8221; by Gioja Ralui to create the piece. She used information from each, and has created such a beautiful piece of embroidery!<\/p>\n<p>From <a href=\"http:\/\/phys.org\/news\/2015-03-power-art-mood.html\" title=\"Art making and mood\" target=\"_blank\">Phys.org<\/a> comes the news that textile artist and psychologist, Ann Collier, has been studying the therapeutic value of art making. Her results have been published in the <em>Journal of Psychology of Aesthetics, Creativity and the Arts<\/em> and the <em>American Art Therapy Journal<\/em>. Art making participants in her study had excellent results in inflammatory immune responses, and improvements in their mood.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/yvettestanton\/mountmellick-embroidery\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/mountmellick-embroidery-board.jpg\" alt=\"Mountmellick embroidery Pinterest board\" width=\"500\" height=\"240\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7263\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/mountmellick-embroidery-board.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/mountmellick-embroidery-board-300x144.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/mountmellick-embroidery-board-150x72.jpg 150w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/mountmellick-embroidery-board-400x192.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a>And I&#8217;ve started a new Pinterest board for <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/yvettestanton\/mountmellick-embroidery\/\" title=\"Mountmellick embroidery\" target=\"_blank\">Mountmellick Embroidery<\/a>. If you haven&#8217;t been to visit my <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/yvettestanton\/\" title=\"Yvette Stanton on Pinterest\" target=\"_blank\">Pinterest boards<\/a>, why not check them out? My favourite board is definitely the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/yvettestanton\/folk-embroidery\/\" title=\"Folk embroidery\" target=\"_blank\">Folk Embroidery<\/a> board. So many beautiful images, and so much inspiration!<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/yvettestanton\/folk-embroidery\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/folk-embroidery-board.jpg\" alt=\"Folk embroidery board\" width=\"500\" height=\"251\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-7261\" srcset=\"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/folk-embroidery-board.jpg 1000w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/folk-embroidery-board-300x150.jpg 300w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/folk-embroidery-board-150x75.jpg 150w, http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/03\/folk-embroidery-board-400x201.jpg 400w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve found a few things on the internet this week that you might be interested in.<\/p>\n<p>The first is an example of Punt &#8216;e N\u00f9, or Sardinian Whitework, by Francesca in Italy. For this, Francesca used my book Sardinian Knotted Embroidery and &#8220;Sardinian Knot Stitch&#8221; by Gioja Ralui to create the piece. She used information [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,57,22,55,54],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7260","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-musings","category-exploring-the-needlework-internet","category-making-stuff","category-punt-e-nu","category-sardinian-knotted-embroidery","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260","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=7260"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7268,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7260\/revisions\/7268"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7260"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7260"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7260"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}