{"id":437,"date":"2011-06-27T21:29:13","date_gmt":"2011-06-27T20:29:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/?p=437"},"modified":"2011-06-27T21:33:27","modified_gmt":"2011-06-27T20:33:27","slug":"japanese-thimble-making","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/?p=437","title":{"rendered":"Japanese Thimble Making"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>After drooling over all the glorious needlework at <a title=\"Ma Mercerie blog\" href=\"http:\/\/mamercerie.blogspot.com\/\" target=\"_blank\">Ma Mercerie blog<\/a> I decided to try my hand at Japanese thimble making this weekend, using the instructions kindly posted on the blog.<\/p>\n<div id=\"attachment_438\" style=\"width: 310px\" class=\"wp-caption aligncenter\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/P1020793_sm.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-438\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-438\" title=\"P1020793_sm\" src=\"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/P1020793_sm-300x203.jpg\" alt=\"My first Japanese thimble\" width=\"300\" height=\"203\" srcset=\"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/P1020793_sm-300x203.jpg 300w, http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/P1020793_sm-150x101.jpg 150w, http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/P1020793_sm-400x271.jpg 400w, http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2011\/06\/P1020793_sm.jpg 500w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-438\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">My first Japanese thimble<\/p><\/div>\n<p>Overall, I&#8217;m quite pleased. Sure, my stitching needs work (and I&#8217;d use a totally different thread next time), but for a first attempt I think it&#8217;s pretty good.\u00a0 And it was a lot of fun to do (and a nice size for an afternoon stitching project), so I&#8217;d make more &#8211; in fact I definitely will, as I&#8217;ve now ordered a kit from the <a title=\"Ma Mercerie Etsy shop\" href=\"http:\/\/www.etsy.com\/shop\/MaMercerie\" target=\"_blank\">Ma Mercerie Etsy shop<\/a>!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>After drooling over all the glorious needlework at Ma Mercerie blog I decided to try my hand at Japanese thimble making this weekend, using the instructions kindly posted on the blog. Overall, I&#8217;m quite pleased. Sure, my stitching needs work (and I&#8217;d use a totally different thread next time), but for a first attempt I [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-437","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=437"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":440,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437\/revisions\/440"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=437"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=437"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.bearlybeaded.co.uk\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=437"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}