{"id":20195,"date":"2025-02-24T23:21:11","date_gmt":"2025-02-24T22:21:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=20195"},"modified":"2025-03-01T23:35:46","modified_gmt":"2025-03-01T22:35:46","slug":"daily_3646_-_dogma_embroidery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/02\/24\/daily_3646_-_dogma_embroidery\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3646 &#8211; dogma embroidery"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to work on my Stockholm embroidery every day until it is done, and I really have, but I took a cheat day today. I found an active <a href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/dogmaembroidery\">dogma embroidery group on Facebook<\/a> and jumped right in.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2023\/02\/02\/daily_2919_-_dogme_embroidery\/\">Dogma embroidery<\/a> is rule-bound, and at the same time the ultimate expression of free embroidery. Or maybe very free-ing. There is no goal to work towards. The thing you embroider isn&#8217;t aiming to become anything else. You&#8217;re not following anyone&#8217;s design, not even your own (if you&#8217;re actually following the principles and just doing).<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>Use fabric in your favourite colour. Use thread in the same colour, but in different qualities and values. Use only blanket stitch, in horizontal lines.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>I didn&#8217;t have much orange fabric to choose from at home, and not much variety in the way of thread, either. Two kinds of orange DMC embroidery floss, a variegated red-orange-yellow perle cotton, and one wool thread that I remembered as looking orange against other backgrounds but that became more of a muddy red-brown against this bright orange cotton. But it was a pleasant exercise.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3646_dogma_embroidery.jpg\" class=\"x6y6\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I was going to work on my Stockholm embroidery every day until it is done, and I really have, but I took a cheat day today. I found an active dogma embroidery group on Facebook and jumped right in. Dogma embroidery is rule-bound, and at the same time the ultimate expression of free embroidery. Or [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,18,786,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-20195","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-dailies","category-embroidery","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20195","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=20195"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20195\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20197,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20195\/revisions\/20197"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20195"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20195"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20195"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}