{"id":13903,"date":"2016-03-07T12:20:54","date_gmt":"2016-03-07T12:20:54","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk.gridhosted.co.uk\/?p=13903"},"modified":"2016-03-07T12:20:54","modified_gmt":"2016-03-07T12:20:54","slug":"memorandum-monday-5","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/?p=13903","title":{"rendered":"Memorandum Monday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Hello to Sian and all Monday Bloggers.<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Over the weekend I learnt how to make Dorset Posies. It&#8217;s something I\u2019ve been wanting to do for ages and was prompted by the pictures and instructions in a magazine I was about to give away!<br \/>\nDo you remember when you got chips wrapped in newspaper? You found yourself reading every word on the page? That was me on Friday, thumbing through this magazine that was two years old being captivated by these pretty little sewing projects.<br \/>\nThey were such fun to do and after the first one they became quick and easy to put together whilst catching up on the iPlayer or watching a film. I have an idea or three buzzing around my head now&#8230;<\/p>\n<p><em>Dorset Posies are a variation of Dorset Buttons which were stitched by hand in the county of Dorset UK from the early 1600&#8217;s to 1851. They were shipped all over the world and were even worn by royalty. This cottage industry employed over 4000 people at its height, making over 100 different Dorset button types, all in white linen. Their popularity died overnight after the Great Exhibition of 1851, when a new button machine was showcased. <\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk.gridhosted.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Dorset-posies.jpg\" rel=\"attachment wp-att-13904\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk.gridhosted.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Dorset-posies.jpg\" alt=\"Dorset-posies\" width=\"857\" height=\"1024\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-13904\" srcset=\"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Dorset-posies.jpg 857w, https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Dorset-posies-251x300.jpg 251w, https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/wp-content\/uploads\/2016\/03\/Dorset-posies-768x918.jpg 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 857px) 100vw, 857px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Memorandum Monday is Sian&#8217;s idea. you can find her <a href=\"http:\/\/fromhighinthesky.blogspot.co.uk\">here<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Hello to Sian and all Monday Bloggers. Over the weekend I learnt how to make Dorset Posies. It&#8217;s something I\u2019ve been wanting to do for ages and was prompted by the pictures and instructions in a magazine I was about &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/?p=13903\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[148],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13903","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-memorandum-monday"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13903","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=13903"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13903\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13906,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13903\/revisions\/13906"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=13903"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=13903"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/miriamrogers.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=13903"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}