{"id":85,"date":"2008-12-28T22:17:00","date_gmt":"2008-12-28T22:17:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=85"},"modified":"2008-12-28T22:17:00","modified_gmt":"2008-12-28T22:17:00","slug":"ive-been-doing-embroidery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2008\/12\/28\/ive-been-doing-embroidery\/","title":{"rendered":"I’ve been doing embroidery!"},"content":{"rendered":"

The title of this post doesn’t seem particularly remarkable for someone who is a needlework designer and writes books about embroidery. However, I have been seriously ill for much of the last year, and during the worst times I have been unable to stitch. It has therefore been a wonderful thrill to me that I have spent much of the last week (with a break for Christmas!) working on a new needlework project. I have SO enjoyed stitching again, and SO enjoyed feeling well enough to do it!<\/p>\n

Yes, I had done a few little bits of needlework recently (as you will have noticed from my blog posts), but this was my first new project in a VERY long time. I took a little trip to Killara to visit Margaret at the Crewel Gobelin<\/a> to purchase the silks that I wanted to use for the project, and some gold thread. It is the first time I have used Au Ver a Soie silks, and my, they are so nice use and to look at!<\/p>\n

I’m now in search of (I think) some T69 Benton and Johnson gold thread, but don’t know of anywhere that I can SEE it, buy a short piece, and try it, before I calculate how much I’ll need to complete the project. I have great sympathy for people who have NO access to a needlework shop. I am grateful that I have one very close by and two others within 15 minutes drive.<\/p>\n

So, here’s a sneak peak of what I’ve been working on. I’ve never done this sort of embroidery before and I have enjoyed it very much. The colours have been so nice to work with. I haven’t decided what to do with it yet.<\/p>\n

\"\"id=\"BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5284977269573137090\"<\/a>A few minutes later: Just called Margaret, and she’s got the T69! So, guess what I’ll be doing today?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The title of this post doesn’t seem particularly remarkable for someone who is a needlework designer and writes books about embroidery. However, I have been seriously ill for much of the last year, and during the worst times I have been unable to stitch. It has therefore been a wonderful thrill to me that I […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[17,18],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-85","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-elizabethan-embroidery","category-goldwork","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85","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=85"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/85\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=85"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=85"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=85"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}