{"id":471,"date":"2013-07-03T04:28:58","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T08:28:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.thedailysew.com\/?p=471"},"modified":"2016-08-03T11:23:10","modified_gmt":"2016-08-03T15:23:10","slug":"hand-stitching-tip-11","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/hand-stitching-tip-11\/","title":{"rendered":"Hand Stitching Tip #11"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-469\" title=\"basting stitch\" src=\"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bastng-stitch.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"375\" srcset=\"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bastng-stitch.jpg 500w, https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bastng-stitch-300x225.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 500px) 100vw, 500px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>Did you know that when you hand baste anything, any stitch (tailor baste stitch shown in picture) that you do not need to tie a knot in your thread? Just leave a long enough tail (3&#8243;) so you don&#8217;t accidentally pull out the first stitch when making subsequent stitches. By leaving off the knot you save a few seconds and make removing the temporary stitching a lot easier.<\/p>\n<p><a title=\"10 Essential Tips for Stress Free Hand Sewing\" href=\"http:\/\/www.thedailysew.com\/2013\/04\/10-essential-tips-for-stress-free-hand-sewing\/\">hand stitching tips 1 &#8211; 10<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Did you know that when you hand baste anything, any stitch (tailor baste stitch shown in picture) that you do not need to tie a knot in your thread? Just leave a long enough tail (3&#8243;) so you don&#8217;t accidentally pull out the first stitch when making subsequent stitches. By leaving off the knot you [&hellip;]&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/2013\/07\/hand-stitching-tip-11\/\" class=\"post-read-more\">Read more&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":469,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[274,275],"tags":[42,68,49],"class_list":["post-471","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-beginner-sewing-tips","category-sewing-tips","tag-beginner-tips","tag-hand-sewing","tag-hand-stitches"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2013\/07\/bastng-stitch.jpg","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1EZxn-7B","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=471"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":473,"href":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/471\/revisions\/473"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/469"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=471"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=471"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thedailysew.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=471"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}