{"id":57,"date":"2006-01-31T19:12:51","date_gmt":"2006-01-31T08:12:51","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/testblog\/?p=57"},"modified":"2019-06-16T11:42:01","modified_gmt":"2019-06-16T01:42:01","slug":"after","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/after\/","title":{"rendered":"after"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/uploaded_images\/Picture%28516%29-704402.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/uploaded_images\/Picture%28516%29-799133.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/uploaded_images\/Picture%28517%29-708387.jpg\"><img decoding=\"async\" style=\"margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;\" src=\"http:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/uploaded_images\/Picture%28517%29-706599.jpg\" alt=\"\" border=\"0\"><\/a><br \/>\nArggh!  Well, I was initally pretty disappointed.<\/p>\n<p>Not at all like felt, in my opinion. Still too much like knitting with fluff stuck on it. Guess I was hoping for some kind of magical transformation. Hmmm, suppose I was also hoping felting might be something I&#8217;m naturally good at: a craft for impatient, messy and distracted people! \ud83d\ude00<\/p>\n<p>Put it through the washing machine again, then with dirty clothes for a normal (cold) wash, then tumble dry. Slightly better, but stitches still pretty clear. However. Started looking around the internet last night (looks like a good book <a href=\"http:\/\/www.amazon.com\/gp\/reader\/1931499705\/ref=sib_dp_pop_ex\/103-9469409-4427026?%5Fencoding=UTF8&amp;p=S00F#reader-page\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">here<\/a> p.15) and walked down to my local library today. Not as disappointed now. I reckon if you look closely at the book photos of felted knits, mine&#8217;s pretty much the same.<\/p>\n<p>As for the embroidery, I&#8217;ll go chain stitch next time. Chain stitch&#8217;s about the thickness of the sewing on the back, which turned out best. And as the book says, it shrinks far more top\/bottom than side\/side.  21 down to 14cm top\/bottom, 21 to 17cm side\/side.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Arggh! Well, I was initally pretty disappointed. Not at all like felt, in my opinion. Still too much like knitting with fluff stuck on it. Guess I was hoping for some kind of magical transformation. Hmmm, suppose I was also hoping felting might be something I&#8217;m naturally good at: a craft for impatient, messy and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-57","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-knit"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=57"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":929,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/57\/revisions\/929"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=57"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=57"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ginevra.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=57"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}