{"id":9924,"date":"2020-06-18T08:00:50","date_gmt":"2020-06-17T22:00:50","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/?p=9924"},"modified":"2020-06-17T17:45:09","modified_gmt":"2020-06-17T07:45:09","slug":"will-this-work","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/2020\/06\/18\/will-this-work\/","title":{"rendered":"Will this work?"},"content":{"rendered":"

A little pep talk from Auntie Vetty today, which came about because I needed the answer to how a particular combination of stitches worked. I spent hours yesterday trying many different variations of stitches, spacing etc until mine matched the photo of the historical piece I was trying to match.<\/p>\n

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If I\u2019ve never done something before, how do I know if it is going to work?<\/p>\n

I don\u2019t.<\/p>\n

Usually I don\u2019t know if it is going to work, until I test it out.<\/p>\n

You\u2019ve seen me now, testing all sorts of stitches and ideas about stitching, in my videos. You\u2019ve seen the process I go through to work out whether my stitching hypotheses are correct.
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testing out different threads and stitches to explore thread twist<\/p><\/div><\/p>\n

I don\u2019t ask someone. (Sometimes I do consult books as reference, and I did yesterday to gather ideas for how it might be done.) Sometimes there isn\u2019t anyone to ask, particularly if it\u2019s a historical piece!<\/p>\n

I test it out for myself.<\/p>\n

Sometimes I get questions from people like \u201cI\u2019m using 28 count linen. I have some of X thread. Will it work on this linen?\u201d<\/p>\n

If I have a question like this for myself, the simplest way to find out the answer is to try it out. (I really don’t know everything!)<\/p>\n

You do not need to receive the answer from someone else. <\/strong><\/p>\n

You do not need to be told what to do. <\/strong><\/p>\n

You can figure it out for yourself.<\/strong><\/p>\n

I think some people are so used to working with kits and published projects that they are used to being told what to do, with what thread, what stitch, what spacing, where etc.<\/p>\n

Not all embroidery is in kitted or published project form. Not all embroidery starts with a set of instructions for you to follow. While these sorts of embroidery can be very satisfying because you know what you\u2019re supposed to end up with, and someone\u2019s given you the steps to get there, not all embroidery is like that.<\/p>\n

Pretty much none of my embroidery is. Much of it, I have to figure out for myself. What thread did they use for this? What stitch is that? How is that stitch done? What thread weight will work for these stitches on this fabric? Why isn\u2019t this working? Why doesn\u2019t mine look like the historical example? How can I reproduce that look and effect? Will it look better if I do it this way?<\/p>\n

The answers to all these questions are found by careful study, questioning and experimentation. It may take time. It may be frustrating. But it is learning, and learning is fantastic!<\/p>\n

I hope that through my videos, you can see that wisdom does not need to be received. Wisdom can be gained through careful study, questioning and experimentation.<\/p>\n

YOU CAN DO IT.<\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A little pep talk from Auntie Vetty today, which came about because I needed the answer to how a particular combination of stitches worked. I spent hours yesterday trying many different variations of stitches, spacing etc until mine matched the photo of the historical piece I was trying to match.<\/p>\n

—-<\/p>\n

If I\u2019ve never done […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,16,23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9924","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-embroidery-musings","category-embroidery-stitches","category-hints-and-tips","odd"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9924","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=9924"}],"version-history":[{"count":7,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9924\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9932,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/9924\/revisions\/9932"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=9924"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=9924"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/vettycreations.com.au\/white-threads\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=9924"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}