{"id":21233,"date":"2025-09-27T22:42:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-27T21:42:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=21233"},"modified":"2025-10-05T22:49:31","modified_gmt":"2025-10-05T21:49:31","slug":"daily_3861_-_black_on_white","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2025\/09\/27\/daily_3861_-_black_on_white\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 3861 &#8211; black on white"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_4\/3861_black_white.jpg\" class=\"x45y6\" \/><\/p>\n<p>The embroidery I started on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p>When my embroidery design has a solid-colour block with a relatively simple shape, my thoughts always go first to appliqu\u00e9. I&#8217;m trying to break that habit and use stitches to fill the area instead. I get a more interesting surface this way, and I can challenge myself to learn new types of stitches.<\/p>\n<p>This one is called &#8220;oriental stitch&#8221; in the few books where I&#8217;ve seen it, although most other sources use that name to mean something completely different.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The embroidery I started on Thursday. When my embroidery design has a solid-colour block with a relatively simple shape, my thoughts always go first to appliqu\u00e9. I&#8217;m trying to break that habit and use stitches to fill the area instead. I get a more interesting surface this way, and I can challenge myself to learn [&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-21233","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\/21233","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=21233"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21233\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":21234,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/21233\/revisions\/21234"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=21233"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=21233"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=21233"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}