{"id":1580,"date":"2014-01-10T06:37:54","date_gmt":"2014-01-10T14:37:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/delightfilledart.wordpress.com\/?p=1580"},"modified":"2016-01-23T21:54:36","modified_gmt":"2016-01-24T05:54:36","slug":"learning-to-sew","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=1580","title":{"rendered":"Learning to sew"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure id=\"attachment_1581\" class=\"thumbnail wp-caption aligncenter\" style=\"width: 300px\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/embroidery-pair.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"wp-image-1581 size-medium\" src=\"https:\/\/www.nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/embroidery-pair-300x173.jpg\" alt=\"girl doing embroidery\" width=\"300\" height=\"173\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/embroidery-pair-300x173.jpg 300w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/embroidery-pair-1024x591.jpg 1024w, https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2014\/01\/embroidery-pair.jpg 1279w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><figcaption class=\"caption wp-caption-text\">Six-year-old trying embroidery for the first time.<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>My mother taught me to sew when I was a girl, and I was showing my daughter a small doll blanket that I had embroidered. She was interested in trying it, so I drew a pattern on a piece of cloth using pencil crayons. I used the corresponding colour for each line of the rainbow, and also made little ticks where she could space the stitches. This proved to be a success! She made this rainbow in a few hours. She was excited as she progressed that she no longer needed to flip the hoop back and forth to see what she was doing.<\/p>\n<p>She said when she gets better, she&#8217;d like to try a bird. I&#8217;m glad she accepted this rainbow as a beginner pattern, rather than her first request of herself riding a pony.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>My mother taught me to sew when I was a girl, and I was showing my daughter a small doll blanket that I had embroidered. She was interested in trying it, so I drew a pattern on a piece of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/?p=1580\">Continued<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":1581,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"kt_blocks_editor_width":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[29,36,38],"tags":[382,566,798,861],"class_list":["post-1580","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-creative-2","category-parenting-2","category-sewing-2","tag-embroidery","tag-kids","tag-rainbow","tag-sewing"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1580"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1580\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1581"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1580"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1580"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/nancyduckhildebrand.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1580"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}