{"id":824,"date":"2010-05-14T09:01:53","date_gmt":"2010-05-14T08:01:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/?p=824"},"modified":"2010-05-10T12:43:31","modified_gmt":"2010-05-10T11:43:31","slug":"look-what-ive-found","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.blog.virtuosewadventures.co.uk\/wordpress\/2010\/05\/14\/look-what-ive-found\/","title":{"rendered":"Look What I’ve Found!"},"content":{"rendered":"
\"First<\/a>

First Stitches<\/p><\/div>\n

A little while ago, Yvette at White Threads blog interviewed me<\/a> for her blog. In the interview, we talked about how I started to embroider, and I described – and provided a picture of – a piece that I worked on with Grandmama when I was about eight or nine.<\/p>\n

I went to visit my parents a few days ago and they fished this mat out of the archives. I made it at school, when I was about six – you can tell my family has a bit of a thing about making things, from the fact it was still in existence.<\/p>\n

I remember almost nothing about making it, except that I got bored of running stitch very quickly, and I must have mentioned that to Grandmama; maybe she suggested the arrowhead stitches and the whipped running stitch. I am fairly sure\u00a0 that I was the only one in the class who did anything but running stitch in a square.\u00a0 Embroidery wasn’t fashionable at the time, so I suspect most of the other children’s parents and grandparents wouldn’t have taken much interest in what we were doing.<\/p>\n

The back looks hair-raising – Miss Hunter<\/a> would have had a fit! –\u00a0 but how many of us have our very first piece of stitching to bring us back to earth?<\/p>\n

Anyone?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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