{"id":2473,"date":"2009-02-04T07:06:44","date_gmt":"2009-02-04T11:06:44","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=2473"},"modified":"2009-02-03T16:12:09","modified_gmt":"2009-02-03T20:12:09","slug":"urban-threads","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=2473","title":{"rendered":"Urban Threads"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2009\/01\/urbanthreads-150x103.jpg\" alt=\"Urban Threads\" title=\"Urban Threads\" width=\"150\" height=\"103\" class=\"contentimg\" \/>Here&#8217;s a neat site I recently stumbled across.  <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanthreads.com\/\">Urban Threads<\/a> peddles edgy designs for machine- and hand embroidery, and also offers their designs as high-resolution clip art.<\/p>\n<p>Their site features a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanthreads.com\/pages?id=47&#038;nav=5\">project gallery<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanthreads.com\/blog&#038;Itemid=9\">blog<\/a> and, best of all, they frequently offer free designs for download.  For January they celebrated Edgar Allan Poe&#8217;s birthday with an adorable &#8220;Nevermore&#8221; design (now back in their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanthreads.com\/product_details?product_id=1640&#038;category_id=7&#038;nav=3\">shop<\/a>, but you can also see a finished version at <a href=\"http:\/\/craftershock.com\/blog\/2009\/01\/15\/free-nevermore-embroidery-design\/\">craftershock<\/a>), and their current free logo patterns could easily be repurposed as a personalized skull-and-needle-crossbones design.<\/p>\n<p>Their downloadable patterns are very cheap&#8211;about $3 each&#8211;and wonderfully whimsical.  Many are cute without being saccharine (I&#8217;ve already bought their <a href=\"http:\/\/www.urbanthreads.com\/product_details?product_id=889&#038;category_id=7&#038;nav=3\">Abducted<\/a> pattern to stitch on a shirt for Shadowboy), and there are several design &#8220;collections&#8221; like tattoos and robots that would look great on a set of tea towels or throw pillows.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Here&#8217;s a neat site I recently stumbled across. Urban Threads peddles edgy designs for machine- and hand embroidery, and also offers their designs as high-resolution clip art. Their site features a project gallery and blog and, best of all, they frequently offer free designs for download. For January they celebrated Edgar Allan Poe&#8217;s birthday with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2473","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2473"}],"version-history":[{"count":9,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2484,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2473\/revisions\/2484"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2473"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2473"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2473"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}