{"id":53,"date":"2011-06-13T06:00:57","date_gmt":"2011-06-13T13:00:57","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.koolerdesign.com\/blog\/?p=53"},"modified":"2011-05-23T15:47:17","modified_gmt":"2011-05-23T22:47:17","slug":"to-stretch-or-not-to-stretch","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.koolerdesign.com\/blog\/index.php?p=53","title":{"rendered":"To Stretch or Not To Stretch"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This is an individual preference whether or not to stretch your fabric while you are stitching.\u00a0 I stretch my fabric because I don&#8217;t trust my tension when I stitch.<\/p>\n<p>When I first taught myself to embroider, I used a wooden hoop with a screw at the top. It&#8217;s a good method if you don&#8217;t leave your hoop in the same place too long. Take it out of the hoop when you put your project away for the evening.<\/p>\n<p>I started working for <a href=\"http:\/\/www.koolerdesign.com\/\">Kooler Design Studio<\/a> and saw the stitchers using stretcher bars.\u00a0 Now I&#8217;m doing the same. The stretcher bars are easy to hold, don&#8217;t need to be removed when you&#8217;re not working on the piece, and allow more freedom to move around on the fabric. The entire piece is all stretched at one time. You need to have a bit more fabric on the edges to accommodate the stretcher bars, but I really like to stitch with them.<\/p>\n<p>Of course, some stitchers don&#8217;t use anything at all to keep tension on their fabric. The choice is yours.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This is an individual preference whether or not to stretch your fabric while you are stitching.\u00a0 I stretch my fabric&hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-53","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-main"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolerdesign.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolerdesign.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolerdesign.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolerdesign.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolerdesign.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=53"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolerdesign.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":118,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolerdesign.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/53\/revisions\/118"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.koolerdesign.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=53"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolerdesign.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=53"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.koolerdesign.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=53"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}