{"id":9468,"date":"2019-02-12T06:35:46","date_gmt":"2019-02-11T19:35:46","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=9468"},"modified":"2019-02-12T06:35:46","modified_gmt":"2019-02-11T19:35:46","slug":"the-front-and-the-back-are-important","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2019\/02\/12\/the-front-and-the-back-are-important\/","title":{"rendered":"The front and the back are important"},"content":{"rendered":"

When I research for a book, I spend a lot of time looking at the front and back of embroideries. I don\u2019t look at the backs to see how neat or how messy they are (though many are surprisingly messy, and we could do well to realise that the neat-back-police haven\u2019t always existed!). I look at both front and back because it helps me to learn how the stitches were made. If I only have the front, I have to make assumptions about how it was made.<\/p>\n

Take long armed cross stitch and herringbone stitch, for example.<\/p>\n

This is long armed cross stitch.
\n\"long<\/p>\n

This is herringbone stitch.
\n\"herringbone<\/p>\n

See the difference? No? That\u2019s because there isn\u2019t any difference on the front.<\/p>\n

This is the back of long armed cross stitch.
\n\"the<\/p>\n

This is the back of herringbone stitch.
\n\"the<\/p>\n

See the difference now?<\/p>\n

This is why it is important to look at both the front and the back of a stitch when trying to figure out how to recreate it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

When I research for a book, I spend a lot of time looking at the front and back of embroideries. I don\u2019t look at the backs to see how neat or how messy they are (though many are surprisingly messy, and we could do well to realise that the neat-back-police haven\u2019t always existed!). I look […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9468","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-musings","category-embroidery-stitches","category-writing-books","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9468","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=9468"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9468\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9473,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9468\/revisions\/9473"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9468"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9468"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9468"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}