{"id":3654,"date":"2016-02-03T14:34:28","date_gmt":"2016-02-03T19:34:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/?p=3654"},"modified":"2017-11-17T16:43:56","modified_gmt":"2017-11-17T21:43:56","slug":"sketching-with-stitches","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/sketching-with-stitches\/","title":{"rendered":"Sketching with Stitches"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>More pages from <a href=\"http:\/\/dionneswift.co.uk\/\" target=\"_blank\">Dionne Swift&#8217;s sketchbook workshop<\/a>. I&#8217;ve never used a sewing machine for drawing, especially on paper, but I hauled mine out  and gave it a try. Sooooo much fun. <\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center;\"><a href=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/sketchbook\/sew.jpg\" ><img decoding=\"async\" title=\"Sketching with Stitches\" src=\"http:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/extra\/images\/sketchbook\/sew.jpg\" width=\"450\" heigth=\"297\" \/><\/a>  <br \/>\nSketchbook stitches.<\/p>\n<p>My grandmother gave me this machine when I was first married and it&#8217;s been put to very good use. But this was it&#8217;s first adventure on paper. I spun the paper round and round making loops and circles. However I haven&#8217;t treated it as well as it has treated me and it needed a good overhaul. So, it is now at sewing machine heaven for the full spa treatment. Even if I were to get a new machine I would keep this. It is made of heavy metal and while not a professional machine it can sew through anything, from fine lace to heavy leather&#8230;and now paper. Can&#8217;t wait to get it back.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>More pages from Dionne Swift&#8217;s sketchbook workshop. I&#8217;ve never used a sewing machine for drawing, especially on paper, but I hauled mine out and gave it a try. Sooooo much fun. Sketchbook stitches. My grandmother gave me this machine when I was first married and it&#8217;s been put to very good use. But this was&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/sketching-with-stitches\/\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[342,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-3654","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sketchbooks","category-fiber"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3654"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3659,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3654\/revisions\/3659"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bethemmott.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}