{"id":7297,"date":"2015-03-19T06:58:08","date_gmt":"2015-03-18T19:58:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=7297"},"modified":"2015-05-21T07:28:19","modified_gmt":"2015-05-20T21:28:19","slug":"exploring-the-needlework-internet-this-week-2","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2015\/03\/19\/exploring-the-needlework-internet-this-week-2\/","title":{"rendered":"Exploring the needlework internet this week"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On my travels round the needlework internet this week (no, there isn\u2019t an internet specifically devoted to needlework, though wouldn\u2019t that be nice?!) these are some of the noteworthy things I\u2019ve seen:<\/p>\n<p>In preparation for the coming Easter season, I\u2019ve been inspired by some embroidered Easter eggs.<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>First, we have Luzine Happel\u2019s gorgeous <a href=\"http:\/\/www.luzine-happel.de\/?p=2611&#038;lang=en\" title=\"Luzine Happel\" target=\"_blank\">Schwalm embroidered eggs<\/a>.<\/li>\n<li>Then there are <a href=\"http:\/\/www.needlenthread.com\/2013\/03\/hand-embroidery-on-eggs-index.html\" title=\"Needle'nThread\" target=\"_blank\">Mary Corbet\u2019s actually embroidered eggs<\/a> &#8211; no fabric, the embroidery is worked into the egg itself. The mind boggles about the care and patience required for this!<\/li>\n<li>An old favourite, with some smocked easter eggs, which I found on <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/EmbroideryCanada\/photos\/a.241662992635912.59890.121796244622588\/590893747712833\/?type=1&#038;theater\" title=\"Smocked eggs\" target=\"_blank\">Facebook<\/a>. When I went to the linked website &#8211; <a href=\"http:\/\/pinwheelponders.blogspot.com.au\/2009\/02\/some-thoughts-on-smocked-ornaments.html\" title=\"Pinwheel Ponders\" target=\"_blank\">Pinwheel Ponders<\/a> &#8211; the actual photo of the smocked eggs wasn&#8217;t apparent, but there was an excellent tutorial on smocked balls, which is the same method as could be used for the eggs.<\/li>\n<li>And finally, some more rather amazing examples of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.travelwestukraine.net\/2013\/03\/easter-motifs-embroidery-and-applique.html\" target=\"_blank\">embroidery stitched directly onto eggs<\/a>.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>For some people, Easter is all about bunnies, chocolate and eggs. For me, Easter is about the death of Jesus, and his raising to life again. Eggs at easter represent new life, and for me that means the new life I have in Christ Jesus.<\/p>\n<p>Back to embroidery, we have a fun article about <a href=\"http:\/\/www.bustle.com\/articles\/69930-11-old-lady-hobbies-that-are-perfect-to-try-in-your-twenties-from-canasta-to-embroidery\" title=\"11 Old Lady Hobbies\" target=\"_blank\">old lady hobbies<\/a> that people should take up in their twenties. And number one on the list is\u2026 Embroidery! \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n<p>I read about a French company who sells <a href=\"http:\/\/www.atelierdemicky.com\/index.php?id_category=33&#038;controller=category&#038;id_lang=2\" title=\"L'Atelier de Micky\" target=\"_blank\">silk threads dyed with plant-based dyes<\/a>. For people doing re-enactment clothing who would prefer their silk dyed with vegetable dyes, this could be an excellent resource.<\/p>\n<p>I found a stitched version of my Claire Hardanger doily on <a href=\"http:\/\/sophiaweng.blogspot.com.au\/2014\/04\/hardanger-claire-doily.html\" title=\"Sophia Weng\" target=\"_blank\">Sophia Weng&#8217;s blog<\/a>. She&#8217;s done a lovely job, and made some adaptations to the original design that work very nicely. The pattern for Claire can be found in <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vettycreations.com.au\/hardanger-book.html\" title=\"Elegant Hardanger Embroidery\" target=\"_blank\">Elegant Hardanger Embroidery<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>And finally, on my <a href=\"http:\/\/www.vettycreations.com.au\/link.html\" title=\"The Big List of Online Textile Collections\" target=\"_blank\">Big List of Online Textile Collections<\/a>, I\u2019m up to 55 museums. Take another look if you haven\u2019t lately. There\u2019s some great stuff there! I do have a lack of South America museums, and there is a lot of embroidery in South America, so that\u2019s the next area to address.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On my travels round the needlework internet this week (no, there isn\u2019t an internet specifically devoted to needlework, though wouldn\u2019t that be nice?!) these are some of the noteworthy things I\u2019ve seen:<\/p>\n<p>In preparation for the coming Easter season, I\u2019ve been inspired by some embroidered Easter eggs.<\/p>\n<p> First, we have Luzine Happel\u2019s gorgeous Schwalm embroidered [&#8230;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,57,23,22],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7297","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-musings","category-exploring-the-needlework-internet","category-hints-and-tips","category-making-stuff","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7297","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=7297"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7297\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7303,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7297\/revisions\/7303"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7297"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7297"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7297"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}