{"id":13131,"date":"2020-07-18T20:58:24","date_gmt":"2020-07-18T19:58:24","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/?p=13131"},"modified":"2023-07-24T22:55:18","modified_gmt":"2023-07-24T21:55:18","slug":"daily_2012_-_napkins_progressing","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/2020\/07\/18\/daily_2012_-_napkins_progressing\/","title":{"rendered":"Daily: 2012 &#8211; napkins progressing"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"\/helen\/blog\/images\/daily_3\/2012_napkins.jpg\" class=\"x6y45\" \/><br \/>\nThe napkin project is progressing nicely. I&#8217;ve ripped the seams along that crocheted ribbon, cut each napkin in four pieces, hemmed them all, and started embroidering.<\/p>\n<p>The embroidery is a bit of an inside joke inspired by the name of the street we live in. I went with a very informal style, free-hand sketching each large star (so they all ended up slightly different and slightly wonky) and then improvising the smaller ones as I sewed. Each napkin will be different, so to reinforce that individuality I&#8217;m embroidering each one in a different colour.<\/p>\n<p>Due to my Soviet childhood, I have a somewhat complicated relationship with five-pointed stars. These ones are different enough from the Soviet stars to feel OK, though. The wonky shapes help. But the red one is definitely going to be a dark red and not a &#8220;Soviet&#8221; red.<\/p>\n<hr \/>\n<p>(Eric and Adrian are away visiting friends for a few days. Ingrid is at home but sleeps past noon and then spends much of the day up in her room. So I have oodles of time for sewing right now.)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The napkin project is progressing nicely. I&#8217;ve ripped the seams along that crocheted ribbon, cut each napkin in four pieces, hemmed them all, and started embroidering. The embroidery is a bit of an inside joke inspired by the name of the street we live in. I went with a very informal style, free-hand sketching each [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[767,788,18,786,768],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-13131","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-crafts-2","category-crochet","category-dailies","category-embroidery","category-photography-2"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13131","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=13131"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13131\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":13135,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/13131\/revisions\/13135"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=13131"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=13131"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.toomik.net\/helen\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=13131"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}