{"id":20982,"date":"2025-07-30T21:54:04","date_gmt":"2025-07-30T20:54:04","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=20982"},"modified":"2025-08-03T22:04:52","modified_gmt":"2025-08-03T21:04:52","slug":"daily_3802_-_world_embroidery_day","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/07\/30\/daily_3802_-_world_embroidery_day\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3802 &#8211; (world) embroidery day"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Today is World Embroidery Day. No more basement cleaning &#8211; I spent the whole day embroidering.<\/p>\n<p>I have this long black cardigan that I bought online, second hand, a few years ago. Great quality, 100% wool, fits me perfectly &#8211; but it is so black. I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;ve worn it a single time, because I feel so dull and boring and washed-out in it. The plan has been for several years now to add colour to it, and I even had an idea for how that would look. I just hadn&#8217;t gotten around to it.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3802_embroidery_day_1.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><\/p>\n<p>That wide unused space in the middle of my bedroom? Turned out to be a great place for planning and sketching out a large embroidery project. Spread it out without running out of table space; walk all around it without navigating around chairs and other furniture. I rather like working on the floor.<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3802_embroidery_day_2.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>I was going to take a photo and then scribble on it digitally, but it was easier to &#8220;sketch&#8221; using contrasting sewing thread on the cardigan directly, and then take a reference photo of that. <\/p>\n<p>Then I got stitching! Enjoyed stitching for the whole day, and was done with half of my design by the end of it. <\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3802_embroidery_day_3.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Today is World Embroidery Day. No more basement cleaning &#8211; I spent the whole day embroidering. I have this long black cardigan that I bought online, second hand, a few years ago. Great quality, 100% wool, fits me perfectly &#8211; but it is so black. I&#8217;m not sure if I&#8217;ve worn it a single time, [&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-20982","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\/20982","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=20982"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20982\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":20984,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/20982\/revisions\/20984"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=20982"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=20982"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=20982"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}